No Follow Checking

Nice video. It could be argued that no follow links do have SEO value though – as far as we know, only Google worries about and checks them. Yahoo, Ask, Lycos, and the millions of other SE’s out there might not be taking any notice.

“no follows” are officially reported by Google to have zero SEO value – this is exactly what I say in the video.

Thanks for sharing some more great information! I was surprised to see that even Robert’s comment has a no follow on it when I checked. So, even though I will receive no google link juice, or even a courtesy backlink from my favorite backlink generating website, I have left this comment…hahaha. Love the site and appreciate all you do for me.
Kim

Yeah, I wonder if doing things like posting comments with your link in it (for example, here) would help or not… If so, thats another backlink for me

Thanks for the info on how to check wether a link has no follow or not. My question is, if it does have no follow, can you simply change the html code to read follow. Thanks.

Surely you can – on the sites where you get access to the code, but in the majority of cases the owners of the sites won’t simply allow you to do that. For example, if Yahoo Answers decided they will have “no follow” – they won’t allow any changes. If some forum decided to have “no follow” on their outgoing links, they will not allow you to change the code. Etc.

That is why if you are evaluating a site/community/forum/blog for the value of building backlinks, then make sure you do the “no follow”, because then you will not be able to play this issue back and persuade them to take away “no follow” from your link. This is almost impossible.

I may agree that Google does not think very much of them, but they still do show up, or at least mine do. Tracking in google webmaster tools I see quite a few no follow links there for my site. I know they weigh about the same as a page with 0PR or NO PR, but I think they are better than no link at all. I will agree it is better to have follow backlinks, much better, but don’t freak out if you get some no follow. I will point out the no follow backlinks I have and that I am tracking are from other backlink campaigns and not from freetrafficsystem.com

You see, Google (even in its webmaster tools) deliberately shows you random picks about links (will explain a little later why). And I remember Matt Cutts even talking about showing the “no follow” links in the webmaster tool and officially confirming they do not count for Google and they simply show them to show them.

Why are they doing that?

I assume this is because Google does not want you to reverse-engineer their algorithm. That is why if Google shows you with 100% precision what counts and what not – then with couple of dozens of tests any SEO geek can crack their algo. That is why they show just a portion of backlinks (even in their webmaster tools), they show both the links that count for SEO and do not count, they try to puzzle you up and lead away from their algo – and this is what I would do in their place.

Surely google webmaster tools shows by FAR better picture of backlinks than a simple official search operator link:

But even the great and lovely webmaster tool is designed to show you just a portion, and puzzle you up. And the showing of “no follow” backlinks in this tool is another hint in this direction.

Hi:
As a matter of fact, I already knew about the no follow subject you expose here. But, due to the fact that many of us got overwhelming information on the internet, no doubt is good thing to have at sight these important facts of SEO. So, thank you for reminding me what I have to be careful of.

Jesus Moreno

I very happy to be able to read your article a very good and very interesting, thank you a lot of articles have given me new motivation in life. many thanks

yan ary

Thanks for the video, will use it on my blog!

All in all, I was aware about it and that’s why I even added CommentLuv plugin to all my WP blogs in order to allow people to have do follow comment links; it’s a little “plus” for them.

–> That’s also why I always check comments before approving them

thanks for this video

Thanks for great info here.

Thanks for sharing some more great information

Although no-follow links might officially not count for google, I assume they are also looking for a “natural” distribution of no-follow and do-follow links. It looks probably a bit odd, if you only have do-follow links!?

Thanks for the tip. I prefer to use a Firefox plug-in, NoDoFollow, and you can have nofollow links highlighted in red for you.

Thank you for your effort,

But it`s a much more easy method to see no-follow link relation and not only that. A little trick, try Quirk SearchStatus for those who use Firefox as browser and you`ll see also PR, Alexa position and even much more. I would not feel good if I use Firefox without this plugin installed.

Kind regards,
Doru

thanks your seo sharing and nice video.

Best Regards,

GoMe

Love your vidios and sharing info with us.

Regards

Thanks for sharing some more great information and Nofollow checking very important for seo

Didn’t realize do follows where that important thanks for the info hopefully might get better listings now.

Cheers

is there any css codes to nofollow links?

good tips nofollow link

Nice video on a most important topic. There’s not enough room here for me to write about the controversy of the “nofollow” attribute and how Google looks at it. You show a nice way to see if your links are “nofollow” or not but most people still are not going to have any idea what they’re looking at when they see the html code.

There’s a much easier way to do this and that’s by installing a Firefox plug-in called “NoDoFollow” which allows you to just right click anywhere on any page and in the drop down menu click on “NoDoFollow” and every link on the page will be highlighted in one of two colors. A Redish color is for NoFollow links and a Blueish color is for DoFollow links.

Later,
Jeff Sargent

thanks for a great review of the nofollow attribute. Nothing more to add. It is what it seems to be. Case closed.