Discussion: To allow nofollow or not?

Posted on February 17th, 2007

Weekly Discussion

Last weeks discussion was great. This week we open the discussion with should you allow nofollow on your blog or not?

It is a widely known SEO fact that if you have a website you should limit the number of outbound links to other sites. This leaks your Google Page Rank (PR) from your site to other sites. To stop this leak you can add rel=”nofollow” to your links.

If you have a link on a blog or in a forum post most likely that link has a nofollow tag in it.

I believe that the nofollow is something that you should use on your site if you are not getting paid for the link. What do you think?

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Comment by Matt Subscribed to comments via email
2007-02-17 15:02:47

I’m actually not sure of what to think of nofollow. On one hand, if you’re a high profile site, you might not want to give smaller sites some “SEO juice”. But on the other hand, if you’re a small site, and a high profile site links to you, you’re going to want them to allow search engines to follow that link, so you get some “SEO Juice”.

Wordpress doesn’t seem to add nofollow’s anyways, which means my Blog shouldn’t contain any nofollow’s (unless I add them manually), which is okay with me.

 
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Comment by Dr. Cossack Subscribed to comments via email
2007-02-17 20:09:05

I’m not a fan of what is short-term optimization. In this case, you try to aim for a higher PageRank, but that relies of the current algorithm to stay the same. Google has been known to adjust it over time. If too many blogs and such start using the “rel=’nofollow’” trick, it might become useless and you’d be back to step one.

The World Wide Web is built on the concept of hyperlinks. Let’s try not to mess with the formula too much.

 
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Comment by Sonia Subscribed to comments via email
2007-02-19 10:08:31

I think it’s true.

Nofollow is the best way to capture page ranking for a while and keep “SEO juices” from flowing to the other sites. However, if a higher rated site links to you it can only mean a good thing for your site income in a short term. Let’s try to keep the content changes regular and of a decent sound and let’s hope Google will take care of the formula.

 
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Comment by Sonia Subscribed to comments via email
2007-02-19 12:51:05

“descent sound”. My mistake.

 

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