Comments on: Google Counts a Nofollow Link!

By: Hainan

Hainan — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:08:38 +0000

I have been thinking about this for long time. It is getting harder to obtain do follow links, and its very time consuming. Majority of my back links are no follow, which has made me worried but after reading your article I realized that it will do some help eventually. Now vast majority people are using no follow I hope after some time no follow may became near do follow status.
I am glad to find some fresh ideas here such as nofollow link’s help for reputation building.
This is best article in my opinion for this topic.
Thanks a lot.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:02:57 +0000

Mixx is not no follow it is follow site. I have got linkback from mix. showing in google webmaster tools.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:00:58 +0000

Yes google also showing nofollow link in my site webmaster account and it has not taken any long for this. but I am also not so sure that it will give any link juice to my site.

By: Steve1943

Steve1943 — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:38:58 +0000

Good post or what?

One more get that damn red off my handle..

(SEO for Firefox rules!)

By: Steve1943

Steve1943 — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:34:15 +0000

@Arindam – that’s exactly what Google wants you to do – stop gaming the engines and help your readers to the best experience you can.

And to that end, they duck, dive, dance and propagandize relentlessly. That’s Matt Cutt’s job…

Propaganda aside, much of G’s vaunted anti-gaming technology is just bluff – apart from the smart human eyeballs they employ. Fortunately for Google, a MFA splog is easily recognisable to the human eye.

Lots of links (preferably from folks who get lots themselves) will get you SEO traffic – and not much else matters a whole lot.

So concentrate on good honest content and then link spam your heart out to get a nucleus of folks to look at it. If the content is any good, the buzz will do the rest – all the way to the bank.

Steve

PS
Q Would you invest in a company whose technology is so dumb that it treats the following as 4 different domains?

http://mydomain.com
http://mydomain.com/
http://www.mydomain.com
http://www.mydomain.com/

A Yeah – and I believe in Santa too!

Happily for Google,
a) Gamers are a miniscule proportion of all web authors.
b) Adsense technology throws off so much cash they can afford plenty of smart human eys to police the golden goose.

By: Arindam

Arindam — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:52:57 +0000

Wow Tom,

You have laid it out so beautifully! Sometimes I feel we should go ahead and build quality sites and backlinks instead of thinking “what Google loves” or “what Google hates” at every step, lol!

By: Thom Lancaster

Thom Lancaster — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:13:57 +0000

My way of thinking about ‘do-follow’ and ‘no-follow’ is that they are just ’suggestions’ to the search engines, which can be over-ruled for absolutely no reason.

After all, the search engines (Google especially) hold the power to use whatever ranking criteria they want. They also do not have to declare this criteria and can change it at will.

For instance, if Google judged that the posts from a single source were spammy (but do-follow) they would want to discredit that source. Similarly, if the links from a no-follow source were established to be valuable, they would want to credit that source when calculating results.

So, the idea that a no-follow source can provide link juice (if only a tiny bit) as not as big a surprise as you might otherwise think.

By: Arindam

Arindam — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:11:54 +0000

Hi Emma,

It is Lucia’s Linky Love plugin. You can get it from here:

http://money.bigbucksblogger.com/lucias-linky-love-a-dofollow-plugin-to-foil-human-comment-spammers/

By: Emma

Emma — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:51:30 +0000

Arindam,
Do you use a plugin to make links dofollow after three posts have been made? Could you share it with us?
Many thanks,
Emma

By: Ventego

Ventego — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:04:17 +0000

I read a few topics. I respect your work and added blog to favorites.