Comments on: When You Walk Away I Will NoFollow

By: Julie Joyce

Julie Joyce — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:52:54 +0000

I have to agree with that 100%.

By: vsloathe

vsloathe — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:02:16 +0000

Ah, of course.

“A nofollowed link is better than nothing” is all I’m really trying to say.

By: Julie Joyce

Julie Joyce — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:58:22 +0000

Wow what an old post…I can barely remember writing this. My assumption was based on rankings being somehow related to PageRank, actually, according to the theory that some believe that says a site with a higher PR will outrank a site with a lower PR. Thus, if you aren’t getting the benefit of the link juice, your rankings may not improve.

By: vsloathe

vsloathe — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:40:46 +0000

It could be pedantic, but nofollowed links most certainly still do help another site’s *rankings*. I think that you’re confusing pagerank with a site’s rankings in the SERPs, as Google has stated that nofollow is there to prevent passing pagerank, and we shouldn’t assume it does anything else.

That, and many experiments done by myself and others have shown that nofollowed links indeed do count. They just don’t pass pagerank.