Question about nofollow tags - GoFuckYourself.com

EN1GMA · 09-19-2012, 04:52 PM

Hello friends,

I have a doubt and maybe someone can help me with this...

I have read in many websites with articles about SEO that google recommends adding the rel="nofollow" to all affiliated links and other website links that we did linkexchange.

What do you think about this?
Do you use this practices in your websites?

And what they mean with affiliated links? adultfriendfinder.com, nastydollars.com etc... Right?
Should I add this tag in all this links in my websites?

P.S. I also read that Google does not care anymore if a link is nofollow or not. Is this true?

Thank you for your help guys!

billbailey · 09-20-2012, 01:10 AM

I can't remember which video it is, but you should be able to see some videos here of Matt Cutts(from google) talking about this: https://youtube.com/results?searc....1.AKHcsWFJyRE.

Basically when you link to site, its almost like giving it a vote, or saying I have confidence in this site. The more google likes your site, the more this 'vote' will count for. If you use no follow, your saying you don't want to pass any credit to this site.

Persoanlly I have never used nofollow as I have never had a reason to.

RachelBlackG · 09-20-2012, 01:13 AM

Yes, adding nofollow is for affiliate links like from adultfriendfinder etc. I do it and I know that many people too. Add dofollow tags only to those links where you want to pass your site's link juice. Pointing to malicious sites with dofollow tag can hurt you. I think that G cares about it.

topsiteking · 09-20-2012, 01:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by billbailey

I can't remember which video it is, but you should be able to see some videos here of Matt Cutts(from google) talking about this: https://youtube.com/results?searc....1.AKHcsWFJyRE.

Basically when you link to site, its almost like giving it a vote, or saying I have confidence in this site. The more google likes your site, the more this 'vote' will count for. If you use no follow, your saying you don't want to pass any credit to this site.

Persoanlly I have never used nofollow as I have never had a reason to.

Thanks for the video links!

pinkz · 09-22-2012, 07:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RachelBlackG

Pointing to malicious sites with dofollow tag can hurt you. I think that G cares about it.

"linking to malicious sites with nofollow will also hurt you bad!"

09-19-2012, 04:52 PM	#1
EN1GMA Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,251	Question about nofollow tags Hello friends, I have a doubt and maybe someone can help me with this... I have read in many websites with articles about SEO that google recommends adding the rel="nofollow" to all affiliated links and other website links that we did linkexchange. What do you think about this? Do you use this practices in your websites? And what they mean with affiliated links? adultfriendfinder.com, nastydollars.com etc... Right? Should I add this tag in all this links in my websites? P.S. I also read that Google does not care anymore if a link is nofollow or not. Is this true? Thank you for your help guys!

09-20-2012, 01:10 AM	#2
billbailey Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 225	I can't remember which video it is, but you should be able to see some videos here of Matt Cutts(from google) talking about this: https://youtube.com/results?searc....1.AKHcsWFJyRE. Basically when you link to site, its almost like giving it a vote, or saying I have confidence in this site. The more google likes your site, the more this 'vote' will count for. If you use no follow, your saying you don't want to pass any credit to this site. Persoanlly I have never used nofollow as I have never had a reason to. Last edited by billbailey; 09-20-2012 at 01:11 AM..

09-20-2012, 01:13 AM	#3
RachelBlackG Elysium Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Prague Posts: 1,037	Yes, adding nofollow is for affiliate links like from adultfriendfinder etc. I do it and I know that many people too. Add dofollow tags only to those links where you want to pass your site's link juice. Pointing to malicious sites with dofollow tag can hurt you. I think that G cares about it.