Comments on: Gone to PubCon and SXSW + Lots of Videos!

By: Steph Iles

Steph Iles — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:15:10 +0000

Thanks for the excellent information – there is so much info out there it is sometimes hard to know which way to turn. I had often wondered if the ‘no follows’ were really not regarded at all by google. Interesting too to hear you say that the percentage of no follow links is actually quite low as it doesn’t always seem that way.

By: Joel Mclaughlin

Joel Mclaughlin — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:28:22 +0000

Excellent information Matt. I think you have some great advice. I believe that No-Follow links are beneficial, because wordpress blog comments would be a very easy way for people to manipulate SERPS negatively. Wikipedia may be an exception – but overall Wikipedia is one website and there are millions of blogs and other sites blocking comments. Fortunately, Wikipedia 99 out of 100 times only quotes information that is already prevalent in search engine results because they only quote trusted information sources.

By: Elliot Yamini

Elliot Yamini — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:49:14 +0000

Dear Matt, would you recommend I add the nofollow tag to all links in the navigation menu of the site I build (which is present on all pages)? Some sites have dozens of navigation links and I’m thinking the addition of the nofollow tag would give more weight to the links found in the body of any particular page. Would love to hear back from you…thank you!

By: Dave Shields

Dave Shields — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:19:30 +0000

I believe you completely when you say that Google doesn’t follow nofollow links. There however is a phenomenum which I have observed about nofollow tags which puzzles me, and has for over a year now. When I analyze sites that compete with client sites I invariably find a high percent of the top-ten sites that use a high frequency of nofollow tags.

Has anyone done any research on this, and how can this penomenum be explained? I really could use a practical explanation for this.

By: dominiq

dominiq — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:44:59 +0000

Thanks for the clarification. I have two related questions…

1- do you have stats on the % of blogs, social sites that make it to the first result page of Google search. I have the feeling it’s going up rapidly

2- do you have a guess of what it would be if all these sites turn into a Dofollow policy

I think it would make Google much mre relevant by the way

Best

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:15:19 +0000

Thanks for taking these questions. Conceptually, it makes sense. This supports the standard answers I’ve been hearing for a long time on no-follow. How do you explain sites that garner page rank and rise in the rankings with only no-follow links?

By: ta

ta — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:55:20 +0000

I have a question of great importance for all of us. How well will pages linked only from noindex, follow page do rank? Can a noindex page have link juice to give? I use Noindex but follow in order to prevent duplicate content.

By: Dave (original)

Dave (original) — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:59:59 +0000

At the end of the day, developing a long term trust factor by providing value to visitors always helps build a business online and offline!

Or having a Monopoly where customers don’t trust the business, but have no choice

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:34:39 +0000

Thanks Matt for the clarification!

Getting quoted and/or linked within a Wikipedia in many cases leads to very good quality visitors.

At the end of the day, developing a long term trust factor by providing value to visitors always helps build a business online and offline!

By: Morris Rosenthal

Morris Rosenthal — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:10:38 +0000

Matt,

In reference to your video about using references other than links. I think I asked a year or so ago if you’ve ever considered using non-link references from juried academic papers, which are indexed by Google Academic. Whatvere you opinion of academics, I doubt they are going to load their paper with link spam.

Morris