Comments on: Can NoFollow Links Hurt You?

By: Dwijayasblog

Dwijayasblog — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:13:11 +0000

For me, I like to commenting the article, so even if it’s a “DoFollow” sites, I will look for a good article to read and hard to comment. And I agree with you, “NoFollow” sites will bring traffic (not backlink). I do care about my position in search engine result, but I do more care about what people think about my site and my articles.

By: Robert@learn spanish fast

Robert@learn spanish fast — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:56:21 +0000

I started http://learnspanish.seviourbooks.com/ just one week ago and have spent about 6 hours blog commenting with Fast Blog Finder Gold. Already I am at around position 150 with Google for the highly competitive keyword Learn Spanish Fast. On related ones, with less traffic, I am in the top 20. No doubt about it, DoFollow blog commenting works well.

By: Scolex from Garena master

Scolex from Garena master — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:03:41 +0000

very useful info! in fact i’ve used some tools like free directory submission and it was really working! i ranked 2nd place in keywords like: Garena master hack and it generates a lot of traffic for my blog. I will try fast blog finder and i target at least a PR of 3 on the next PR update(just a wish!).

By: Mary@ Lingerie Bras and Thongs

Mary@ Lingerie Bras and Thongs — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:33:06 +0000

Julia,
Great analysis on follow and no follow links. I, too, was wondering whether blog posts make a difference anymore (seeing as how this practice is becoming so spammy, particularly with all the companies out there writing poor blog posts with no worthy content other than poor writing and 2-3 obvious links promoting a particular website). You’ve confirmed the value of blog links. Thank you.

By: Josep

Josep — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:25:38 +0000

Very interesting article, I had not seen Nofollow attribute as the way you have well expressed, not bringing bringing baclinks but human traffic, I will take into consideration, many thanks for sharing this info

By: Lars Tong Strömberg

Lars Tong Strömberg — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:06:13 +0000

Interesting findings and well presented. Feels good to know that commenting is useful in the long run which your experiment strongly indicates. Would be great if you could follow up on this more times in the future for this particular case too. Nice with the clarification on NoFollow too although I have always been sceptical to the idea that commenting on NoFollow would be bad. That simply doesn´t make sense.

By: JT@Tombstone

JT@Tombstone — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:51:00 +0000

Thank you for doing this case study – and then writing about it. It was an excellent way to illustrate remove some myths about No Follow links as well as Blog Commenting.

Great Job!

By: Codrut Turcanu

Codrut Turcanu — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:33:28 +0000

Top professionals , entrepreneurs and business savvy minds say – why not both? So I’d suggest you stick with no-follow and do-follow

By: Vass@Organic Carpet Cleaners Surrey

Vass@Organic Carpet Cleaners Surrey — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:28:34 +0000

Your experiment is valuable, thanks for sharing !
Recently google made a significant change in the way page rank ( aka “link juice” ) is distributed with the “nofollow” attribute – this makes me think they’re going to make more changes in the near future, hopefully for the better and easier for the process of SEO. Yes, spam has always been the issue, but on the other hand is the difficulty when doing normal and useful link building.

By: Rob@Bike Jackets

Rob@Bike Jackets — Fri, 01 May 2009 02:21:44 +0000

Hey Julia,
It’s been a tad over a year since you posted your experiment and i’m wondering if your results still hold true now. I’m pretty sure that dofollow links still help a site’s ranking, at least from what I’ve seen recently I still think this to be the case. But what i’m more interested in is if nofollow comments still have zero SEO value to a site’s ranking. Cos you would think if you were to provide a quality value-added comment to a high authority blog that it wouldn’t be unreasonable for Google to attribute you for that. I guess the problem therein lies in Google’s ability to differentiate between the two…which seems to me to be near impossible. Which would mean the onus would then fall on blog owners to do that.