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11:51 am June 28, 2011
| Buck Inspire
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Hi all,
Can someone give me a simple explanation about these links and what should I be doing and where I should be modifying this? With this new update, may as well follow the right follow rule. Thanks!
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2:01 pm June 28, 2011
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Any site that you link to (for reference only) and don't want to pass along any of your "linking juice," you make them no follow by adding rel="nofollow" in the html. Below is an example.
Also, check us out on <a href="http://twitter.com/BlogMyMoney" rel="nofollow">Twitter</a> or <a href="http://www.facebook.com/MyPersonalFinanceJourney" rel="nofollow">Facebook</a>. Thanks for visiting! Keep on learning!
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2:28 pm June 28, 2011
| JT_McGee
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Post edited 2:28 pm – June 28, 2011 by JT_McGee
No follow can mean two things:
1) I don't trust this website
2) This is an advertisement
Linking out always reduces a page's "PageRank." No follow links will not help you "save" your PageRank internally.
I don't think I've manually no followed a link yet. In a post I wrote for tomorrow, I have 7 outbound links to cite my sources. Each link is to a very credible website or publication (one is a university) so there's no need to no-follow, or waste the time thinking about it.
Keep in mind, also, that linking to other sites can boost your site's position in the search engines. Google likes sites that cite their sources, and link to other, high-quality sites. Always do it when possible/necessary; it can give you a boost in the rankings.
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2:42 pm June 28, 2011
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I have never nofollowed within a post on purpose. You either link to a site because
1) You find them useful to the topic which means they deserve to get more link juice (this is how it is technically supposed to work)
2) Someone pays you to include a link, you have to do-follow this anyway. That is why they are paying you.
The only links I have nofollowed so far are the social media links.
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3:17 pm June 28, 2011
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Hey Jacob, JT, and Suba,
Thanks so much. All your replies were very helpful. So many things to think about, who would have known?
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3:51 pm June 28, 2011
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Yeah! A lot to consider! That's an interesting idea though JD. I didn't know that do-follow links to high quality sites will actually help your own site's rankings.
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6:40 pm June 28, 2011
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JT_McGee said:
No follow can mean two things:
1) I don't trust this website
2) This is an advertisement
Linking out always reduces a page's "PageRank." No follow links will not help you "save" your PageRank internally.
I don't think I've manually no followed a link yet. In a post I wrote for tomorrow, I have 7 outbound links to cite my sources. Each link is to a very credible website or publication (one is a university) so there's no need to no-follow, or waste the time thinking about it.
Keep in mind, also, that linking to other sites can boost your site's position in the search engines. Google likes sites that cite their sources, and link to other, high-quality sites. Always do it when possible/necessary; it can give you a boost in the rankings.
I agree with JT. I only link to credible sources so I rarely nofollow a link.
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5:27 am June 29, 2011
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For the most part you shouldn't have much reason to no follow a link. For the most part being that what you link to in your articles is a source you trust.
For example, if I link to a WSJ that should be a regular link. To nofollow it would seem like I didn't trust the link or I was trying to manipulate "link juice."
There are articles out there that argue the benefits of nofollowing (or dofollow) your comments, archives, tags, etc…
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5:59 am June 29, 2011
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I've only used "no follow" on a couple of occasions – mainly when linking to my social network accounts.
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8:00 pm June 29, 2011
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Other than whatever Wordpress does automatically, I've only nofollowed a couple of image banners that are advertisements and I think that's it. If I think a link can be helpful to the readers I don't see why I should nofollow it. Nofollow is a hack IMO.
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12:27 pm June 30, 2011
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Kevin, I think so too. It is to be stingy with passing on any link juice to other sites.
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2:35 pm June 30, 2011
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I never had any link juice, so I never had to worry about it.
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4:03 pm July 1, 2011
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From a post on Smart Passive Income, you should no-follow the following:
- All affiliate links you use; each and every one of them (Although he later brings up “hiding” affiliate links as a better option).
- The links to your RSS feeds, twittercounter, and all social links should be nofollowed too.
- The privacy policy link in the footer of the site should be nofollowed except on the homepage.
Here's the full story: smartpassiveincome.com/seo-mistakes/
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6:13 pm July 1, 2011
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Jeffrey Trull said:
From a post on Smart Passive Income, you should no-follow the following:
- All affiliate links you use; each and every one of them (Although he later brings up “hiding” affiliate links as a better option).
- The links to your RSS feeds, twittercounter, and all social links should be nofollowed too.
- The privacy policy link in the footer of the site should be nofollowed except on the homepage.
Here's the full story: smartpassiveincome.com/seo-mistakes/
Thanks for posting that link. I was guilty of a few of those mistakes!
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8:45 am July 5, 2011
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Interesting indeed!!! I don't think I ever nofollow affiliate links on purpose!
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7:03 pm July 6, 2011
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What does hiding affiliate links mean? That sounds like something kind of black hat. I've heard of people no-following them but personally I'm going to leave them the way they are. The way I see it I add an affiliate link because I think it's something valuable, not just cause I want people to click so I can get a few cents. I'd link to many of these products even without the affiliate.
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9:38 pm July 6, 2011
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Kevin, The affiliate links are not your links OR the product's direct link. For example if you are linking to mint.com the affiliate link will not be mint.com, it will be linkshare.com/blah or tracklink.com/abcd.. why would you want to give your link love to linkshare or commisionjunction or flexoffers…whoever you are using? If the product is useful and you link it to mint.com, then I don't think you have to do anything specific, it is the middleman's link everyone is talking about.
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8:57 am July 7, 2011
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Ah ok I got you. I don't have any of tthese sort of links. All of my affiliate programs currently link to the actual product, with a referral tag at the end or something like that. What you're saying makes sense and in that case I would probably put the nofollow.
Suba @ Wealth Informatics said:
Kevin, The affiliate links are not your links OR the product's direct link. For example if you are linking to mint.com the affiliate link will not be mint.com, it will be linkshare.com/blah or tracklink.com/abcd.. why would you want to give your link love to linkshare or commisionjunction or flexoffers…whoever you are using? If the product is useful and you link it to mint.com, then I don't think you have to do anything specific, it is the middleman's link everyone is talking about.
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9:35 am July 7, 2011
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Hiding affiliate links is not black hat. There are several good reasons to do so. The biggest reason is to keep people from stealing. Also some people won't click on an affiliate link that looks like an affiliate link but they will click on a cloaked link. Some people think that Google penalizes you if you have too many affiliate links on your site. I'm skeptical of that but it is another possible reason to hide your links.
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9:55 am July 7, 2011
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I personally find it unethical if a site intentionally tries to deceive me that a link is not an affiliate when it is, such as say the link appears as "www.amazon.com/book" when it really has an affiliate tag. I also believe it goes against the terms of service of some affiliate providers.
I have no idea if it's considered black hat to do this or not, though. I think there's a middle ground like the /go that I've seen on other sites, which is clearly affiliate link though does not display the actual referral code.
TightFistedMiser said:
Hiding affiliate links is not black hat. There are several good reasons to do so. The biggest reason is to keep people from stealing. Also some people won't click on an affiliate link that looks like an affiliate link but they will click on a cloaked link. Some people think that Google penalizes you if you have too many affiliate links on your site. I'm skeptical of that but it is another possible reason to hide your links.
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