Comments on: Add nofollow to prevent being banned for paid links

By: Sanya

Sanya — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:49:00 +0000

I think not all the out bound links treated as bad by google. If you have relevent outbound links you may even gain better ranks. But if the outbound links are mainly for advertisement or gives no real value to the reader it may reated as bad. Also it depends on the quantity of the outbound links if you have few payed links on page it should be ok. But the question is how many is too much?

By: igor

igor — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:03:22 +0000

rel=â€nofollowâ€ does not stop Google crawling the page! And Google does crawl the page. It may not index it if the link to that page is only with nofollow, but for sure will index it if some where else there is a link to the same page without nofollow. It does not stop Google from indexing the title of the anchor link even though Matt C. told us it has been fixedâ€¦ Maybe the fix takes time to take hold, please check for the changes if they have happened. As far as PR juice is been passed that is the question for Google algorithm. So, is it worth to post comments even if you do not get PR for the condom link? The answer is definitely yes. 1. The link will be indexed one way or another when the comments are picked up by RSS aggregators which mostly do not use condoms. 2. You will get human traffic, which in my opinion is more relevant than what Googlebot send you. 3. The titel of the link is very important to promote your brand name. In conclusion all hoopla aside, following Google Quality Guidelines, make pages for humans not for bots - forget about the freaking PRâ€¦ Follow - nofollow - who cares, it is a waste of time even to think about it. If someone comments on my forum and I accept the comments I pass the link juice if not then they are historyâ€¦plain and simpleâ€¦ Matt C. we do not need condomsâ€¦....

By: john

john — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:25:27 +0000

I think the interesting part, google makes this job unknown so we dont know exactly what is happening.. if google is counting or not.. is nofollow links work for someting or not.. so there is always a hope

By: nofollow, paid links, PR, Flagship Blogs and a Lamborghini. » the Spun Puppy

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:17:54 +0000

[...] behind Google’s rank slashing, Dustin Brewer has posted a very insightful article on adding nofollow tags to prevent you from being banned for paid links. This post is in my opinion, a must read if you are trying to come back from having your PageRank [...]

By: Dustin Brewer

Dustin Brewer — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:39:14 +0000

It isn’t so much about the comment links that you have to worry about it is more about having paid links without nofollow on your site.

You shouldn’t get penalized for your comment links but you could be put into a possible “bad neighborhood” category that some of the sites you link out to may be in.

As a point, I try to make the only external links coming from here going to sites that I pick specifically.

By: Mark Abucayon

Mark Abucayon — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:00:00 +0000

Dustin this is great… I have now the idea putting ads on my website. this is great two thumbs up for you Dustin..

Thanks

By: webduck

webduck — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:00:00 +0000

I was beginning to feel like it was a no-win situation with Google. Great article Dustin, and very helpful. Thanks very much.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:00:00 +0000

Awesome information, I had been wondering what I was supposed to do to keep advertising on my site. Google doesn’t exactly make all of this information as public as I would like.