NoFollow Disscution

@greekhand 206105 wrote:

I don’t think that ‘nofollow’ can hurt your site.

uh think about a blog post with 50 nofollowed comments/urls….

say u have 3 urls in you blog post, they now get 1/53rd of the page juice where they used to get 1/3rd of the juice each…

Exactly.

Google should (and may) come with a new option, like a nofollow with 2 flavors: nofollownojuice and nofollowyesjuice. Otherwise all these nofollow links are big juice leaks everywhere.

I just said that Google will not ban his site for using ‘nofollow’

The * greekhand referred earlier to in Cutt’s Blog states “Nofollow links definitely don’t pass PageRank. Over the years, I’ve seen a few corner cases where a nofollow link did pass anchortext, normally due to bugs in indexing that we then fixed. The essential thing you need to know is that nofollow links don’t help sites rank higher in Google’s search results.”

The summary theme of his entire blog article on the nofollow is that we should not use it internally within our sites. However, given that it doesn’t pass PR or anchor text, it is still appropriate to use for affiliate links.

Be very careful how you utilize nofollow attributes … it is not a silver bullet for SEO. I personally do not recommend site use them right now. But, that does not mean go and remove all from you site – test and assess – each site may be different

Just don’t use nofollow in a manipulative way — such as link sculpting — and you will be fine. That’s really all that Cutts was saying.

Google and Yahoo absolutely spider nofollow links (their reps said so at an SEO conference I was at), it’s really not named correctly, maybe it should be the nojuice tag.