MyBlogGuest.com Question
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Hi,
When a blog owner posts my article with a no-follow tag applied to the anchor text link pointing out I kind of get the feeling as soon as Google indexes this article with that tag applied its game over and that article is now dead, even if the blog owner changes it back to follow after Google has found it.
I do a lot of guest blogging and it seems as though when Google first crawls the new content for the first time and follows the link something extra passes through.
For example: I guest posted on a blog and the article was 'follow', I sore a increase in rankings for about 3 weeks, then the article got flagged in My Blog Guest that it had been changed and I noticed a no-follow tag had been applied.
Ranking dropped back down by the time I had contacted the blog owner and asked him to change it, which he did and still it is follow but I never sore rankings come back, it was like soon as Google had seen the article link was 'nofollow' changing it back made no difference.
I could be completely wrong as this is just guessing but its almost like when a link is tampered with it indicates its not a natural link.
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I'd say we can only guess... There are so many variables here. Guest posts may go down the archive and thus the link value may be decreasing. Or possibly there are some flags - which would be not a smart idea though because I see dozens of blog who nofollow links with no intention (because of installing a new WP plugin. So honestly, I don't have the answer.
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Hi, Like the robots declaration in the head section of a website (index,follow,etc.), Google should use the latest version of the rel tags to makes its decision to pass PageRank or not. The next time a page is crawled, if the rel="nofollow" was removed, Google should count the external link in its calculation of weight for the intended site. In plain English, the link should be counted and you'll get your juice. Chris
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You may have a point. Or maybe the link was simply one that gave quick gains and then Google 'normalised' your keyword ranking after crawling the link.
It's fairly common for Google to take a couple of days if not longer to normalise rankings when you gain a new link and to put you in the correct position. This might just have been a case of you moving up and down and then stabilising.
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