What impact do no follow links in blog comments have if any?
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Hi
I think we all agree that social network sites such as pintrest/instagram/twitter are all now no follow however I believe there is benefit in having them....
So I wondered if anyone had been experimenting with commenting on blogs which had no follow attributes and if there was any benefit in terms of improving your rankings?
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These pages are indexed by google right?
How about I PM you instead I wouldn't want the owner of the site to google themselves and find out I have been interrogating their site.
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Can you post some urls to see some info about the link profiles in questions ?
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Thats quite interesting that you say this....I haven't done any research into this competitors rankings per say yet.....however purely from a DA & PA perspective this seems to be doing their site the world of good.
Furthermore the industry is dominated by women (I know I'm one but still) and they tend to comment & talk ALOT and it would seem to me that comments make up 80% of this persons link profile. However from reading the comments I think they are completely genuine and its just a case of someone connecting with others within her industry on a regular basis too regular for my liking but I'm a old school (I don't have a personal facebook or twitter I like good old fashioned face to face chats)
Weird.
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Yes, there are a lot of cases like this but again, this can also back-fire if it starts going over board.
In my opinion it should be part of any link profile as it helps but not as a primary channel. The ratio must be keept, as part of the link profile management, very tight.
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I think you are correct, I am working on a site at the moment it has a DA of 28 and PA of 40 but there is one their competitors who has been trading for a shorter period of time with a DA of 45 and PA 53 and most of their back links appear to be comments (mixture of no follow and follow)
So I was confused by this!
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If "done" right (natural that is) and with real on subject insights it can also help on the link profile side.
Even if those links are no follow, some, on a case by case basis are actually sending "link juice".
We've run several tests on new domains and we've manage to get really good rankings and a "public PR" only by using no follow links from social network channels.
If is going overboard however I am sure it can really hurt though.
Overal, I think those type of links should be part of any healthy link profile in a decent ratio. Those links are also part of online fingerprints that any decent site should have - again, with a good mix.
Just my opinion.
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