NoFollow Disscution

I’m not sure that Google expressly says that they don’t give value to any nofollow links whatsoever. I think there are studies out there where sites have gotten themselves ranked simply from a Wikipedia link. My opinion on nofollow is that it is a flag for Google to look at and then decide if the link has value or not, but I don’t have any empirical information on this. For example, a nofollow link from a blog comment (the reason nofollow was invented) would certainly not be given credit. I could easily believe that Google credits Wikipedia links since that is a human edited website and human edited content is very important to Google.

That said, it is impossible to get a link on Wikipedia if you don’t have real and very high quality unique information that the Wikipedia community finds valuable.

Take a look at this post : http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/
Read the asterisk
[*] at the end of the post.

So does this mean that nofollow on internal links is a bad thing then? That’s quite different from current thinking isn’t it?

This is quite an important point. If what Matt Cutts says is true, and there’s no reason to not believe him, then PR sculpting is a complete waste of time, this goes against what I’ve been told fairly recently by seo experts. I’d be very interested to here other peoples take on this.

If Matt makes it a point to say it doesn’t work, then google doesn’t want you to do it.

@heimdall 206093 wrote:

This is quite an important point. If what Matt Cutts says is true, and there’s no reason to not believe him, then PR sculpting is a complete waste of time, this goes against what I’ve been told fairly recently by seo experts. I’d be very interested to here other peoples take on this.

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I still do not understand is nofollow a big no no or what ?

I used it to prevent pr leakage from internal to affiliate links. Should I remove all nofollow tags ?

This No-follow attribute is a poor search engine solution for ranking a website properly !
Second it is a sign you do not trust the links on your website you use………so how trustworthy will become your site ??

total Crap

I don’t think you should be panic … I was showed my theory that Google don’t treat the ‘nofollow’ always as they say they are. But I don’t think that ‘nofollow’ can hurt your site.

If you are using nofollow in a manipulative way, then it is a no-no according to Google. So, yes link sculpting is not something they like seeing. Using nofollow to external links shouldn’t be a problem, in that case you are just saying that there is this site over here, but you don’t necessarily vouch for it.

It is generally believed that no follow links are nearly invisible to SE, but not 100%, and Google is known to crawl them sometimes. Also other SE than Google may give them some weight, but Google does not.

Google is trying to fix the “no follow mess”, and their last move which does not make sense (to me) shows that they have stepped into the nofollow quicksand.

My guess they are going to have a lot of ad hoc tricks to make sense of it all; but for us, it is quite clear that a no follow link is a dead end, is it not?