Don’t Use NoFollow
Search Engine Optimization March 30th, 2007Loren Baker calls attention to the dangers of using NoFollow to links on your site. Quite correctly, he points out that using NoFollow for instance to your contact page is telling Google that you don’t trust yourself. And if you don’t trust yourself, why should Google trust you?
I’d take this point one step further and say you should not use “nofollow” except where it “naturally” occurs, such as on blog comments.
Putting my tin foil hat on, I wouldn’t be surprised if using NoFollow alerts Google to the fact that a site has been heavily SEO’d.Â
If your site is SEO related, I guess that doesn’t matter, but for your ordinary websites I’d avoid it like the plague. Don’t raise a flag with Google if you can help it.
Keeping NoFollow off websites just keeps your website a little lower on the radar.
April 2nd, 2007 at 9:15 am
I think that people should be weary of using it even where it appears naturally, in your example in WordPress its easy enough to remove the nofollow code.
April 2nd, 2007 at 1:51 pm
I doubt that Google would penalize or filter that in any way because it is a standard feature in all WordPress installs.
However, removing nofollow on a blog sure helps get comments :-)
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:46 pm
I just removed the no follow from my blog. I didn’t know I had it on there.
May 11th, 2007 at 1:39 am
I only put nofollow code on the TQ page, but how to remove a nofollow on the blog?
June 5th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
I think If directory owners don’t approve their directory We will be penalized them.
June 21st, 2007 at 9:08 am
Thanks for the tip, I had no-follow all over my website.