Are nofollow links irrelevant?

Dan from Bucharest asks: "Are nofollow links worth getting? Or are they almost irrelevant?"

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• nofollow
• seo
• google

[Winger4u]

Again a very interesting answer. Matt is getting better at this i think. He knows that people want to know if this matters to Google or not and he answers accordingly. Not leaving that part a bit unanswered like in very large number of past video's. Looking forward to the next answer.

[floydandpartners]

Actually, Matt is answering your question. He's saying, don't ignore the ripple effect that traffic to your site will have.

Even if the nofollow keeps specific link juice from flowing to your site, there are other factors (that Google does monitor) that will be positively impacted by your increased traffic.

Back to basics, remember: create a great experience for your users, bring interest to the site, and Google will take note and follow, one way or another.

[pathikbd]

Ok, no follow does not work for search engines. But, what about social signals? All the links used in social signals are nofollowed.

[Debm452]

Strangely, my experience is completely different, google not only pickups up and indexes nofollow links but also show that links in webmasters control panel. What I understand is if the comment or link spammy its ignored, But its has some content and is of value, the no follow link will get some weight-age atleast.

[Debm452]

Strangely, my experience is completely different, google not only pickups up and indexes nofollow links but also show that links in webmasters control panel. What I understand is if the comment or link spammy its ignored, But its has some content and is of value, the no follow link will get some weightage atleast.

[sandy4705]

I really hate SEO. But it was just one of those things I used to do since? it was an absolutely necessity. Tools like Senuke really made life a lot easier but until I met this little tool InsaneBacklinks(dot)com

[lramalho85]

@Winger4u That is because you shouldn't care about Google or for that matter any other search engine, but rather you should care about the USERS. They are what is important, and it's in them that you should focus all your energy.

[JennyWrites429]

Great video! I never thought about this aspect, and was always discouraged when I’d realize that so many blog’s comments were no-follow. It makes great sense to make an awesome or interesting comment to grab other reader’s attention and make them want to click over to your site. You could gain yourself a few extra loyal readers which still looks good for Google as your traffic goes up! Thank you for reminding us how important quality comments can be over the follow and no-follow links.

[marcolino54321]

Everyone uses nofollows so how G will rank anything ? The facts is its just to scare people out from spamming (which is good). There are numerous experiments on the web that proves that. Look it up.

[whoisbid]

If one good valuable true hyperlink (dofollow) is more powerful than 10,000 nofollow links from blogs, then why should people want to blog? Once people find out that most blogs are nofollow and they understand the implications, then they stop blogging. It is a very rare thing to find a true blog where people are interacting. The only true interaction I have seen is in Online games and Facebook. Outside of that it does not really seem to exist.