SEO Tycoon

**mateiu_lk** · 09-11-2009, 08:51 AM

If I gain a link on a site that uses nofollow is it a complete waste ?

This practice is so widespread and almost default with most blogs and forums.

100 backlinks from sites with high PR pointing to my blog using nofollow .. will result in nothing ?

**edgray** · 09-11-2009, 09:40 AM

in terms of PR, yes, they're useless. They won't pass over any link juice.

But is that the only point of links? No. Sites with high PR tend to have good traffic, links on those sites can bring visitors and help promote your site.

Interestingly, I have noticed some "nofollow" links showing up in my Google's webmaster tools lately... perhaps some do count for something?

**w3bmaster** · 09-11-2009, 10:14 AM

I personaly don't care if is a doffolow or nofollow link as long as it's one way with my target keyphrase is a link that helps

Actually they help in rankings they don't count on PR but who cares about PR ...

**Dave011** · 09-11-2009, 11:26 AM

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If I gain a link on a site that uses nofollow is it a complete waste ?

not really, you can still get traffic from does links.

**beowulf7** · 09-11-2009, 10:57 PM

Not so underestimate the role of no follow link, I mean a link is a link, a doorway to your site.

Even it can't bring u backlink, at least some traffic!

**bigcat1967** · 09-11-2009, 10:57 PM

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Interestingly, I have noticed some "nofollow" links showing up in my Google's webmaster tools lately... perhaps some do count for something?

I'm getting nofollow links in my backlink list as well. I did read that it's good to mix it up w/ DoFollow and NoFollow links so Google won't think that you are spamming. I'm not sure about this - but 10% of my links are NoFollow.

**chrishirst** · 09-13-2009, 07:35 AM

REAL people with REAL credit cards can still click on the links and maybe persuaded to part some money for whatever you are selling.

**jamestl2** · 09-14-2009, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by mateiu_lk

If I gain a link on a site that uses nofollow is it a complete waste ?

Would you consider it a waste if the (nofollowed) link were to send you over 5000 unique visitors a day?

**mrandrei** · 09-14-2009, 11:07 PM

Nofollow links are not totally useless, even if they are never counted by Google as backlinks, because they can still drive traffic to your site. They are still beneficial.

**francis84** · 09-15-2009, 12:15 AM

SERP speaking, NO follow backlinks are NOT so beneficial (But I dont believe Google REALLY ignore no follow links, I think they just give them a little ranking factors compare to do follow backlinks.)

**roshandark** · 09-15-2009, 06:39 AM

Francis, you are very right. I fully agree with you. No follow links are not so useful for SERPs but they are never ingored by google.

**sampeterson** · 04:16 AM

Nofollow links are not totally useless,if you want to increase your link popularity then there is no need for nofollow links,but if you want improve your traffic then these links will be effective,coz traffic also one of the factor of PR.

**chrishirst** · 09-22-2009, 05:01 AM

traffic is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with PR!!!!

**MaximZF** · 09-22-2009, 05:10 AM

Great debate about this indeed. Some argue you still get the juice in the eyes of other search engine, other than google.

Of course as mentioned by others already the link on high traffic website itself can bring you valuable traffics if you post something of the site readers' interest.

**andrew_smith** · 09-23-2009, 07:29 AM

That's correct that the nofollow link are totally useless. as a web promotions point of view, it doesn't help you. Google can't read this link.

**Phreaker47** · 09-25-2009, 03:26 AM

No-follow tells Google not to follow the link from your page. Let's say I link to your site from my page and I assign a no-follow attribute. That means Google will not transfer PageRank nor will my site be seen as a backlink/inbound link for your site.

It will not help u with the PR, but some traffic brought by that links is also benefical!

**unhid** · 09-25-2009, 03:55 PM

I'd trade 100 ok dofollow links for a great / the right NoFollow Link any day of the week!!!

**weblinkbuilders** · 09-25-2009, 08:39 PM

Agreed that if you are building nofollow links on good sites you will see a trickle of good quality traffic.

**linkforu** · 09-26-2009, 03:29 AM

not completely useless ..usefull to get some amout of traffic and help in Searp as well but for google SERP ..you can say that ..yahoo and MSN still counting them

**Digger** · 09-29-2009, 05:06 AM

We can not say as useless. Infact I have gained good serps from nofollow links unless they are credible.

Getting a no follow link from a credible resource like wikipedia is good for your website. Both users and search engines would love that. But it will not pass link juice that is taken for the calculation of PR.