KMRock Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 When building your network of backlinks, backlink variation is a vital part of ensuring you get the most out of your SEO campaign. I've put together some great and easy information about backlink variation that can help people to understand this. What are your thoughts on this matter? Hope this helps out a few people! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnthomas1433 Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 You seemed to have messed like most newbies, when it comes to dofollow and a nofollow link. You seem to think that having a dofollow link is much better than a nofollow link, when that's entirely false. Dofollow links pass link juice and Nofollow does not, and that doesnt mean that your rankings depend on the link juice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KMRock Posted January 13, 2013 Author Share Posted January 13, 2013 No, I have identified the need for NoFollow links, thus pointing to forum signature links as a vital part of a promotional campaign. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Nathan Posted January 13, 2013 Administrators Share Posted January 13, 2013 You seemed to have messed like most newbies, when it comes to dofollow and a nofollow link. You seem to think that having a dofollow link is much better than a nofollow link, when that's entirely false. Dofollow links pass link juice and Nofollow does not, and that doesnt mean that your rankings depend on the link juice. Do Follow carries more weight than nofollow period. KMRock 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KMRock Posted January 13, 2013 Author Share Posted January 13, 2013 Do Follow carries more weight than nofollow period. I have to agree here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Leigh Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Wait, my head is spinning. Let me see if I have understood this follow thing correctly. The dofollow and nofollow thing is only relevant to search bots, right? To the human visitor, they look exactly the same, right? Now, with a dofollow link, the search bot will follow it to the target, thus giving the target some kind of consideration in search results, right? What I don't understand is how a dofollow link will do any harm to the source of the link. I mean the site where the link is placed. How does the matter of a search bot following a dofollow link make the source site lose anything? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessi Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 How does the matter of a search bot following a dofollow link make the source site lose anything? Because when a bot follows a do-follow link, it records a lot of info about that. If it follows it to a "bad" site, it's going to record that the site it's posted on is also, in a way, potentially 'bad' because it obviously supports it. If it didn't approve of it, after all, then it wouldn't be posting a link to that site, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbigfan Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Right. The bottom line in protecting your site is to never allow a link to be made by someone else that doesn't carry nofollow. Google has stated time and time again that they don't want to see user generated links because these tend to be spammy and reflect badly upon both sites. I set my forums up to automatically apply nofollow to any extrenal link and then I can later review links and whitelist those I feel are quality sites. It's worked so far. I also try to find alternate ways of promoting member interests, sometimes without them even knowing I've done it. KMRock 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KMRock Posted January 13, 2013 Author Share Posted January 13, 2013 How do you set that for your links on your forum? And the individually allow certain ones? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Nathan Posted January 13, 2013 Administrators Share Posted January 13, 2013 How do you set that for your links on your forum? And the individually allow certain ones? There is a setting for it in IP.Board. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbigfan Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 There's also a 2 minute mod for assigning nofollow on phpbb forums, why it's not the default behavior I don't know. I guess the designers are really anti-seo and believe SEO is not important. Still, why not be safe instead of sorry right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessi Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 There's also a 2 minute mod for assigning nofollow on phpbb forums, why it's not the default behavior I don't know. I guess the designers are really anti-seo and believe SEO is not important. Still, why not be safe instead of sorry right? Because it's helpful to allow the regular links being posted to be followed. Generally signature links are set to no-follow by default, but it can be really good to allow do-follow links throughout the rest of the forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KMRock Posted January 14, 2013 Author Share Posted January 14, 2013 There's also a 2 minute mod for assigning nofollow on phpbb forums, why it's not the default behavior I don't know. I guess the designers are really anti-seo and believe SEO is not important. Still, why not be safe instead of sorry right? This is interesting. Though I believe that on certain forums, dofollow links are needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isabellas2007 Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 I have to agree on the backlink variation, but I have never heard of it on the dofollow and no follow tags before. I have always heard of it as the way you are writing your links to guarantee you are getting the proper information and keyword listing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KMRock Posted January 15, 2013 Author Share Posted January 15, 2013 Yeah there is a big difference in dofollow/nofollow but the keywords used is also very important. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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