How Much Should I Worry About NOFOLLOW Links?
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I've got many unnatural backlinks that have the NOFOLLOW tag.
How much should I worry about those links? Could Google penalize my website for these links?
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If you haven't been hit by any ranking drops in the last several weeks, I wouldn't be worried about this at all -- nofollow or not.
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If your site comes up for a reconsideration request, I feel they will count against you. Just because they are nofollow, doesn't decrease the fact that they are manipulative.
Likewise, nofollow doesn't stop spammers from spamming blogs. Why should it stop google from determining who's spamming or not.
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Those links do not pass page rank and therefore Google will most likely not look at them as an attempt to manipulate. I would recommend take them down anyways because they are not helping anyone. I would not spend too much time on it, but I would rather not have irrelevant non-authoritative links pointing at my site. It's like getting a reference for something from someone you dont trust/like.
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