Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Even today, many bloggers and webmasters are suspicious of nofollow links. Certainly, you don’t want all your inbound links being nofollow, but does it really hurt if some of them are? If you receive $50 or $100 for your article, does that nofollow link really matter? SEO for Small Business dofollow links inbound links linkbuilding links nofollow links They seek out guest blogging opportunities in hopes of finding more coveted dofollow links.

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Bill Hartzer

AUGUST 15, 2013

Therefore, all links in press releases should have the nofollow attribute added to the links, so that the press release does not pass any SEO ( Search Engine Optimization ) value to the website it’s linking to.

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 30, 2017

3) NoFollow. You can choose the colors to highlight nofollow and follow links, and which domains/hosts to highlight. Sample reviews: “The nofollow Chrome extension is very simple and highlights the links that are nofollow, directly in your browser.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 9, 2012

Nofollow links to sites with which you don’t want/need to share link equity. You could nofollow them, but then you’d be tricking the person you made the reciprocal link agreement with (which most people would agree is a “gray hat” move).

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Bill Hartzer

APRIL 3, 2013

I am not sure if Google has done this on purpose, but some links that are posted in Google Plus are automatically tagged with a nofollow link attribute, meaning that there is not any search engine optimization value added to the link. Those are “nofollow” links.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 3, 2013

Make sure that links within sponsored content have the “nofollow” attribute or are coded so that they are inaccessible to crawlers. Sponsored content in various forms is growing in popularity as publishers seek additional sources of revenue.

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Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

To quickly determine if a link is dofollow or nofollow, you can install the Chrome Nofollow extension, which will highlight all nofollow links. Whenever you come to a site that links out to external sources with nofollow links, it will look like in the screenshot below.

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Razor Social

APRIL 4, 2018

Nofollow links also matter. Some links, for example, the ones from blog comments may have the rel=”nofollow” attribute. <a The nofollow attribute gives search engines instructions not to follow the link.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 14, 2012

But What About Nofollow? External links on Pinterest have the nofollow attribute which takes way their direct SEO value (a necessary step to combat abuse).

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Social Media Marketing

JULY 4, 2018

The guy wrote: “I recently commented on another thread regarding this, and I just did a double-take and Reddit comments indeed appear to not have the "nofollow"-relation? SEO is a never-ending race and marketers and bloggers know that. In order to achieve success in the SEO world, it's important to stay updated on Google's changes, impact and new avenues, therefore, these are some important pieces of advice on which practices you should avoid while optimising your content online.

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Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

As such, links to SEMPO should include a ‘nofollow’ link, and clearly state in the article (or at the end of the article) that Motoko Hunt is a Board Member of SEMPO. The sole link in the article does not have a “nofollow” attribute added to the link.

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Ignite Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

All social media sites use NoFollow links, which tells the search engines to not pass PageRank through to those links. Social media is taking up more time in terms of online activities; therefore, its’ users are generating more content to consume.

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Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

To quickly determine if a link is dofollow or nofollow, you can install the Chrome Nofollow extension, which will highlight all nofollow links. Whenever you come to a site that links out to external sources with nofollow links, it will look like in the screenshot below.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Noindex and Nofollow. Any irrelevant pages like terms of use, PDF files, privacy policy, and sitemaps should be nofollowed. Use your own discretion as to other pages you may want to nofollow. Site search results should also be nofollowed and noindexed.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 14, 2015

For this, it is essential to adhere to search engine requirements such as making all links to sponsor sites nofollow and preventing indexation in Google News. I’ve been enjoying a needed break from blogging this year but I thought it was time to pop my head up and share some thoughts.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 21, 2012

Unfortunately many social media sites add a “nofollow” attribute to any links within user generated content. I was invited to contribute a column to an upcoming social media guidebook from Media Industry Newsletter and Folio.

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Harp Interactive

APRIL 20, 2010

This is optional, but recommended to check Anchor text, Page rank, Number of outbound links, Availability of the page, Presence of meta tags “nofollow” and “noindex” etc. The more that relevant websites link to your website, the better Google likes you. It is authority by association.

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

It also creates links back to your site: At the moment the attribution links do not have the nofollow attribute, which means they have SEO value as well. And even nofollow links have indirect SEO benefits since users who come across them may choose to link or share the content elsewhere.

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Razor Social

MARCH 23, 2017

The type of links displayed are: NoFollow – These links pretty much have no value to your website in terms of SEO. For example, most links from blog comments are NoFollow because too many spammers were using comments to get links.

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Kikolani

DECEMBER 12, 2014

It also provides an insight if links are juicy or nofollow, and PR of the domain. You want to know the secret to a comprehensive SEO strategy? You and all SEO enthusiasts. But it’s not a secret.

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SocialFish

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Although the links are nofollow (and mashed up into some crazy looking code), one thing I have noticed about Quora is that you can generate a lot of views and followers fast by answering questions.

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Kikolani

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

You can use the settings option for WP RSS Aggregator to configure features such as limit the number of posts shown on each page, limit the number of feed items stored from each feed source, make the links nofollow, and whether you would like the new links to open in a new page.

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Bill Hartzer

MARCH 24, 2014

Links in all the content are typically nofollowed and comply with all FTC and Google Webmaster Guidelines. Guest blogging for SEO purposes started its downfall recently, especially with Google penalizing MyBlogGuest , and before that it was Google finding and penalizing advertorials.

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Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Google wants links in advertorials to be tagged with the nofollow attribute and the FTC requires full disclosure. I would like to note that those text link ads do not appear to have the “nofollow” attribute on them.

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Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

As for links to be nofollowed if they bring you traffic but or paid or sponsored links, or are part of a guest post or advertorial.

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Kikolani

JUNE 21, 2012

Latest blog post links are nofollow. One of the ways that I promote my most important blog posts, like my massive post on 40+ Tips on How to Become a Social Media Rockstar , is through commenting on blogs enabled with CommentLuv.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 5, 2009

It can be done by redirecting the sponsored links to an intermediate page that is blocked via robots.txt, or by applying the nofollow attribute to the JavaScript links (see the Vanessa Fox writeup as well as the second half of this article in SEL for more detail).

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Harp Interactive

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Create Wikipedia articles, electronic press releases; leave comments on forums and blogs even those with <nofollow> attributes. The web is an great platform for publicity; unfortunately not all of it is positive!

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Kikolani

DECEMBER 29, 2015

The final thing you should look for is whether or not their links are Dofollow or Nofollow. That being said, even a Nofollow link can earn you a massive amount of referral traffic if the site is popular. A great way of getting quality links is by using the HARO platform.

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Kikolani

OCTOBER 26, 2011

And yes, you need a mixture of both Dofollow and Nofollow links, because that’s what natural link building looks like. How do you know whether a blog is Do or Nofollow? This is a guest post by Ana Hoffman.

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Kikolani

DECEMBER 25, 2009

Nofollow blogs vs. Dofollow blogs. This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, an Old City Bar, and the week in review at kikolani.com. The Resources Mashup. Here are some of the best articles I have stumbledupon this week. Blogging.

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Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 30, 2014

All the social media sites NoFollow such links, which acts as an instruction to the search engines to not pass PageRank through those links. You just hit hit publish on that great new blog post. What a great feeling!

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ProBlogger

APRIL 24, 2018

Nofollow Links. And if you want to make a link ‘nofollow’ you can use the rel attribute which specifies the relationship between your post and the one you’re linking to. Even if you haven’t launched your blog yet, you’ve probably come across the term ‘HTML’. You might know what it looks like. Or you might just have a hazy idea it has something to do with web pages – like I did when I started.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 14, 2013

In some cases like Yahoo, the links within syndicated content are nofollow (and they often point to Yahoo tracking URLs with 302 redirects) and thus do not pass SEO value.

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Bill Hartzer

APRIL 23, 2013

You have to be kind to people, be courteous to website owners and ask them to remove the link or make it a “nofollow” link.

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Saying It Social

MARCH 22, 2010

The links from the profile page may have nofollow tags, but they will drive traffic and different search engines treat the nofollow tag differently. Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials It’s Time to Think about Integrating Search & Social Media Google and Microsoft’s Bing recently struck deals to incorporate social media into their real-time search results.

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Socialmedia.biz

JULY 14, 2016

Even though social media links are nofollow, you’ll still get a bit of authority and you’ll be sharing your name with potential new customers across multiple social media platforms. Post by Adi Englander. Your content strategy alone isn’t enough when it comes to ranking higher in search. Content is still incredibly important, but there’s a not-so-new beast called social media that many business are still neglecting and missing out on entirely.

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Navolutions

JULY 30, 2013

If one site needs more SEO help than the other, your webmaster can help you set up one of them as a “nofollow” link. R5GJNQWPUEK8 . Pop culture has an obsession with all powerful computer nerds.

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Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 6, 2014

If you could remove this link or add the rel=”nofollow” attribute you would make Google and me very happy. Dear Shady SEO Firm: Would you please stop, immediately, from spreading false and untrue rumors about the Google Disavow Tool?

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Saying It Social

JUNE 3, 2010

SEO benefits: Many social media bookmarking sites use NOFOLLOW tags that limit the outbound link value of posts made on their sites, but there are still many leading sites that allow DOFOLLOW tags — including Friendfeed, Digg, and Mixx. You can also benefit from posting to bookmarking sites that use NOFOLLOW tags if people read your posts and link back to your Web site.

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Kikolani

OCTOBER 25, 2012

They simply allow you to connect with businesses on your own terms and even suggest that if you want to accept payment for placing content, you should follow Google’s rules of using nofollow with any links added in sponsored content.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

nofollow. Ross Mayfields Weblog. Markets, Technology & Musings. « Techmeme Persistent Search Feeds | Main. Enterprise 2.008 » June 12, 2008. Elevating the Enterprise 2.0 Conversation. UPDATE: Video of the keynote. My presentation at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference.

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Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 24, 2011

For the full list of questions and answers, see the article I just referenced): 1) If an article is retweeted or referenced much in Twitter, do you count that as a signal outside of finding any non-nofollowed links that may naturally result from it?

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