follow vs nofollow links

[bulldogzg]

Your opinions and experiences when it comes to follow vs nofollow links.

Did you find that nofollow's are getting more love lately or do you still find them pretty much useless?

What about .edu nofollow links?

In my SEO strategies I try use around 10-15% nofollow links.

Love to hear form you

[iamtheceo]

I take a link regardless if it is follow or no follow. I still get results even if it is a no follow link. But I dont go out and actively look for them. If I can get a good link up and it sticks I will take it regardless if it is do or no follow.

[nesterdwarf]

I'm of the same opinion as iamtheceo, a link is a link is a link.  And with the big G going towards a 'user experience' model, I can only see follow/no-follow losing more and more importance.

ND

[ronnie84]

Quality and indexed backlinks will always help you in term of seo & also will help in buildind for your website

[creo]

nofollow links contribute towards keyword relevance through the anchor text and that's why they appear to help, but the law of diminishing returns applies to nofollow because of this. There's only so much relevancy you can get for a keyword.

If you have very high relevancy to a keyword and weaker backlinks vs a competitor who has very strong, authoritative backlinks but weaker relevancy to the keyword then you'll beat him for that keyword.

dofollow links contribute towards both keyword relevance through anchor text as well as providing 'strength', 'link-juice' which is a variety of things ranging from trust rank, authority, pr etc.

That's all you need to know about dofollow vs nofollow and knowing this you'll understand why people still find nofollow links useful and why they only find about 10-15 of them useful. Simple.

[organicseo]

nofollow is as important as follow, so both are equally important
having ur site only do follow links gets a red flag from Search engines , its better to mix some nice no follow with ur do follow links

[5_4_Fighting]

No vs Do  I don't really put any attention towards percentages.  I just get a link if it is a quality link it does not matter in my eyes.  I have some .edu links from great US schools they are no follow they help tremendously

[creo]

nofollow is as important as follow, so both are equally important
having ur site only do follow links gets a red flag from Search engines , its better to mix some nice no follow with ur do follow links

They're not equally important and you don't get any red flags for having only dofollow, certainly not. Why would they penalize you for that? What if you're a small site that only has a few good quality backlinks. You would then get red flagged. But your competitor who has a mix of crappy dofollow and nofollow blogs won't get red flagged. I don't think so ;-)

You will get red flagged if you have all nofollow and no dofollow though. Or at least a very high percentage of nofollow.

Read my post above where I explain the exact difference between the 2 and you'll understand why they're not equal.

[iamtheceo]

They're not equally important and you don't get any red flags for having only dofollow, certainly not. Why would they penalize you for that? What if you're a small site that only has a few good quality backlinks. You would then get red flagged. But your competitor who has a mix of crappy dofollow and nofollow blogs won't get red flagged. I don't think so ;-)

You will get red flagged if you have all nofollow and no dofollow though. Or at least a very high percentage of nofollow.

Read my post above where I explain the exact difference between the 2 and you'll understand why they're not equal.

Well said.