No follow - dofollow
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Does the nofollow pass mozrank? Is useful or I am just loosing my time? I am trying to get links for a clients, but other blogs are very few so I can make guest authoring, and this what I can find 90% are nofollow. What I should do? i HSOULD BUY FEW SO i CAN ACHIEVE THE RESULTS?Thanks
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Hi Rand! I will try in the white hat way, with guest post! Is the only way to get some decent links. But you know sometimes I get angry, when I am working hard to build my links and the others are just passing me with some links...
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Bought links have for a long time been against webmaster guidelines. Fair or not, those sites buying are taking a gamble - and so are the sites selling them. One day (if Google get's its way) there will not be any sites selling or buying links in the index. It might not leave many sites (!) but will you be one of the survivors? In the long term, like it or not, we have to do it Google's way if we want to be in included their index.
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Hi Nikos - my experience has been that over the long run, those who break those rules find it comes back to bite them both directly and indirectly. I certainly don't want to lecture you or tell you how to do your marketing - that's your business. But I would feel awfully guilty if you came away from an experience interacting on the Moz community thinking that we might endorse or support link buying. It's always dangerous and, in my opinion, always a worse use of money and time than white hat, long-term tactics.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/white-hat-seo-it-fing-works-12421 has more on my opinions, and http://www.seomoz.org/blog/unnatural-link-warnings-blog-networks-advice is an excellent, recent piece on how Google cracks down on this sort of thing.
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You know how many times I found links bought from google? Contextual in high authority blogs. Google just have fun of us. They create the rules and after they break them. Like goverments. Every time when I follow rules I loose my time. The point is to breakl them in a way that you dont get caught!
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Thanks man! Rules are made to be broken! Cheers
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If you are posting on blogs and forums that are relevant or related to your niche then do not worry if they are follow or no follow, the back link will surely be counted in some sense, if not now then during an algo change in the future. Having backlinks from no follow blogs at least shows that you are willing to participate in discussions without the prize of link juice in return. This is a good thing. These days I do not check for the follow status of a blog or forum, I believe all links have some value. I also believe that Google's algorithm is far more complex than we can imagine. Including or excluding certain link types would definitely be an unnatural linking method. So my best advice is not to bother checking the follow status.
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Brent is right on the "directly not passing juice". however, I think that Google is starting to look at link profiles in a holistic sense now, and having a good mix of nofollow links helps keep a profile natural looking, and I would argue that they do take it into account.
Dont go out and grab tons of them, but for sure sprinkle them in as part of your effort.
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Nofollow does not pass any juice... According to Matt Cutts of Google, Google doesn't count nofollow back links.
There is a great answer to that question here. http://www.seomoz.org/q/do-no-follow-links-have-any-seo-value-at-all
I wouldn't suggest buying, but focus on finding better locations to build Follow links.
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