H. Tanaka

Any link posted on your blog will *NOT* get link juice. This is a “nofollow” blog software, I knew this all along and felt most free and at ease then.

But at the same time, that should make you feel more relaxed also. For example I submitted two links of two websites that I’ve redesigned as an example of Flash use. And the post was deleted possibly as suspected spam.

This is how “nofollow” works:

If I post a link to a website I am trying to promote – if it’s “nofollow” blog – then I not only waste my time but I *lose* valuable Google juice. That is fact.

Which is why I am very careful never to mention the URLs I am trying to promote on a nofollow blog. But don’t really mind mentioning the ones that are strongly established and can be therefore suffer the negative PR hit.

When promoting a website on a blog, some people dig out “DoFollow” blog directories and so forth. They are truly good for promotion and link juice but never “nofollow” ones.

When I am on a nofollow blog, I just feel like a break and chatting nothing else – my intention is never promotion. So I use my real name (as opposed to of Keyword1 + Keyword2) and I use my own website – which I never care about.

In short, anyone adding links here, they always lose – and you always gain. You retain PR. And on top of that you get extra points for “refreshing” content. Google likes busy blogs.

So it pays to give them the benefit of the doubt before deleting a post with external links.

But on the other hand if it is a boring and useless comment – then sure, delete it by all means – it is after all *your* blog and as such you get to decide.

Absolutely, Hanna, I quite agree with you. If you comment just for link juice, you will get found out and your comments deleted. But comment because you like the post or you have something to say and you will make friends and get backlinks eventually. Thank you.

Hello Britney, I couldn’t agree with you more. Commenting only on do-follow blogs would also damage your reputation and make you be viewed suspiciously by those blog owners. Thanks for the comment!

Very good point Norman, if you invest a little bit of time and effort into a community results will follow.

Hi Louie, good to see you popping back, don’t work too hard submitting links to those directories!

Being part of a forum (or twitter) community can help build awareness of what you are doing and the rest will follow.

And thanks, Derek, I agree with you as well about StumbleUpon. You get a quick hike in your visitors over and day who stay for 1 second and go never to return.

Thanks, dizi izle, but this is not the whole story when it comes to SEO – there are other things like optimising your site and writing killer content all explained on this site.

Frank

Thank you, Chelle, for commenting. I got that idea from one of the many SEO articles I’ve read so unfortunately I can’t claim genius! Keyword Luv looks great. I’m afraid I still get a lot of comment spam as I’m on lists of doFollow blogs.

For the blog commenting, I wish everyone who was dofollow would start implementing keyword luv (i have it on my site for those unfamiliar with it) – basically your readers can have real names AND get their link with anchor text they want

Great list and tips, thank you!

Hello Sydney, a lot of people say that the importance of PageRank is severely limited however for ranking pages there is simply nothing else out there.

Hi Jimmy, thanks and thank you for your other recommendations. Can you give us some links to free classifieds? Craig’s list and Gumtree?

Kampanye Damai Pemilu Indonesia 2009 thank you, my pleasure.

Rofikul Islam Shahin you’re right, real readers are what you want, not just traffic that stays for one second.

Pepper haha!Thanks for your comment and I’m sorry at the moment I’m still nofollow. Me too, I’d comment whether a blog was df or nf, I just comment because I like the post or I think I can add something. Hurrah for commenters like you!

Seriously, though, the right content is a key to getting the inbound link thing happening. Good advice.

And I’d comment here whether the blog was df or nf, just in case you have any doubts.

Any link that gets visitors to your site is a good link. Spend your time & efforts on doing what you can to compel them to stay around and become regular readers. Lots of bloggers obsess over and spend inordinate amounts of time striving for PageRank, Alexa, and other stats & rankings but really, what’s important is this: Are you getting visitors and how many of those are repeats or subscribers?

Thank you Justin, I hope you come back to read more.

And same to you Phil, thanks for popping by.

Tracey, good point, I was deliberately vague about this. I checked a few social networking/bookmarking sites and their links were rel="nofollow" or rel="bookmark" and my feeling is that these links don’t help you up your PageRank. However, if someone on the social networking/bookmarking site follows the link to your page, likes it, and then links to it, then you do get link juice from it, indirectly. So any type of link is good as long as it’s not from a “bad neighborhood”. Cheers!

I’m curious about the social media sites (StumbleUpon, Reddit, Digg etc) and whether a link via one of these sites has equivalent value to an inbound link from somewhere else. I’m even more curious about whether links bouncing around on twitter have any bearing for Google.

I totally agree with your thoughts on 3 ways links, at the end of the day google most cetainly isnt stupid.

nice post, i look forward to more like this