Thread: Sculpting SEO with Nofollow Tag

Originally Posted by James Stein

Why would you allow someone else to control your business ??

James

Nobody controls my business besides me. I am not sure you read the all thread, it is not about Matt Cutts that's for sure.

Originally Posted by James Stein

No but people just have to start jumping to the google lame blog and saying well Matt Cutts says this and that ... Who cares...

Go out and "TEST" it for yourself and find your own answers... <-- that is my point. stop jumping to google blog with it's bad/not proven/on purpose misleading advice

James

Like I said in my first post:

This subject seems controversial and I would like to know more about your personal experience with internal no follow tag.

I don't jump to Google blog, it seems like you are assuming things, and the purpose of this thread was sharing experience based on what Google said about the no follow tag.

It doesn't mean that Google is wrong or right, I would like to hear about personal experience from the members of this community.

Is that bad?

Originally Posted by James Stein

Many of us marketers that dominate google

Now you dominate Google? Thought you didn't care about G, only about other search engines... oh well...

To the point:

I've tested this in the past and am still quite sure that G passes "some" juice from those links, not PR wise, that I'm sure, but over time they'll help your SERPS.

Originally Posted by Shenron

I've tested this in the past and am still quite sure that G passes "some" juice from those links, not PR wise, that I'm sure, but over time they'll help your SERPS.

I've seen other people say this too, and it's not that I don't believe it, but I've never seen an example of a no-follow link actually helping on serps, or at least, any way of demonstrating it...
That said, I tend to not worry about no follow. Life is easier if you just ignore it.

I believe all links have value. If I was doing linkbuilding, I wouldn't care if the links were dofollow or nofollow. First of all, you need balance to make it look natural, and second - it is likely that there is some benefit from all links. Now, just as a precaution, I use the system I mentioned earlier when doing external linking on my blog. I figure that if it has a benefit, that's great, and if it doesn't, I didn't waste more than a minute nofollowing my links. And, why are we only focusing on Google? Other search engines might have algorithms that factor in nofollow links, etc. We shouldn't put all of our eggs in one basket, nor should we be so quick to dismiss ideas.

I said I would not rely on google for my business.

What do you rely on?

Originally Posted by James Stein

It's like the ezine articles thing - just because some so-called expert article marketing that could not market his way out of a wet paper bag say to post only to ezine articles many follow...

It's also like the many wannabe marketers that say you must have a mail list and you must use aweber, oh by the way here is my affiliate link. The fact is you do not need aweber when you already pay for hosting and have cpanel.. A double fact is you do not need a mail list to make money online.

So do you see a pattern here ???

This is something that makes sense, I've the same opinion here, good post.