Dofollow VS noFollow
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HI
What do you think about nofollow links, are they still give rank for domains.
DJ
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I did a test last month on google.fr with the keyword "cuisine quimper" (kitchen + town name); with one dofollow link, I got the 11th rank.
Then I added 3 good nofollow links... and got rank 2. Nofollow links value is probably very low but not equal to 0.
All details and screenshots : http://internetbusiness.fr/liens-nofollow-utiles-pour-gagner-des-positions-dans-google
Do you own test :). Anyway, good nofollow links can bring you direct traffic and help your linking profile to be more natural.
linking-nofollow-cuisine-quimper.jpg Historique-liens-cuisine-quimper.jpg Autorit%C3%A9-cuisine-quimper.jpg
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I suspect if URLs are being changed then they are either worried about Penguin or have fallen foul of it. Either way those sites are probably not the best type of links to be hunting out and changing to no-follow has probably done you a favour in the long run.
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yes, a know but many pages change links from do-follow to no-follow, and as you said nofollow do not give link value.
Things is it becoming very hard to get good links with dofollow.
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I suppose you could argue that no-follow links are more important than do-follow. A thinly veiled bought link not set to no-follow can cause more problems to a domain as opposed to the good ten good do-follow links can do.
But no-follow links do not pass any link value.
Also bear in mind that for a natural looking link profile you will want a mixture of both.
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