Nofollow links are not good for ranking purposes but they can be good for traffic. Some people nofollow them in order to prevent them from receiving any link juice. A link without a rel=nofollow is a followed link.
Does anyone remember nofollow and PageRank sculpting? After announcing that it had the potential to help with SEO, Matt Cutts reversed his advice and now recommends a site almost never use nofollow on their links.
How Dare You Tell Me To NoFollow My Sponsored Links - Search Engine Roundtable Forget algorithms. When would someone use "noindex, follow" in a robots meta tag? The Next Generation of Ranking Signals - SEOmoz
Nofollow and noindex attributes should be supported site wide for use on an as-needed basis. Google put webmasters on notice in April last year when it announced that site speed is a contributive signal for its search ranking algorithms.
Imagine that next what happens if that you get two more great links, and you nofollow all the links to a portion of your site that you really don't need the search engine to index, and traffic grows another 20 percent.
SEW Experts: The Great Nofollow Link Debate of '08What started as a way to stop comment spam three years ago has turned into one of the most controversial topics in search. SEW Experts: Universal Pictures: Optimizing Video for SearchWe hear a lot...
SEW Experts: The Great Nofollow Link Debate of '08What started as a way to stop comment spam three years ago has turned into one of the most controversial topics in search. SEW Experts: Universal Pictures: Optimizing Video for SearchWe hear a lot...
Eric Lander started an interesting debate about nofollow use triggering search engine algorithms (define) to detect spammy sites. Bottom line: The rel="nofollow" attribute is here to stay, and a few more years of testing and a few dozen search...
Similar to the way a robots.txt file is used, or a meta tag, the X-Robots-Tag can use the NOINDEX, NOARCHIVE, NOSNIPPET, or NOFOLLOW tag to tell spiders not to index a page, not to display a cached version of a page in search results, not to...
Loren Baker gets on the warpath today with this rant against the NoFollow tag. He also backed up his rant by installing the DoFollow Plugin, a plugin that causes all comments out of your blog to have the NoFollow tag removed.
It's a joke having fun at the issues of nofollow that those OUTSIDE of blogging are contemplating in the wake of the tag. In fact, Ask Jeeves is specifically not supporting nofollow at the moment because they use a radically different ranking...
