Hi John

Thanks for the answer I think you are correct.

My competitors have been advertising on these sites and I was absolutely sure they were getting some benefit from doing so (more than just brand awareness) and now I think this thread had confirmed it for me.

Alot of people have websites and many of them are not interested in seo and therefore dont read up on google guidelines so it is easy to understand how these things can be missed by some web owners.

Thank you Malcolm that answers what I wanted to know.

Hi Moosa

I do not have the option to put no follow, I do not own the site I would just be advertising on the site???

Hi Moosa

But what I am asking is it good for my site (I would be advisting on the site)

From what I have seen in my industry no one is using no follow for their banners.

Presumably if google found out they would punish the site selling the banners.

(btw I dont think they have done this on purpose, as with everything alot of people dont follow google guidelines and for these guys I doubt very much serps are that important)

Hi Guys

I have been checking out a couple of my competitors and noticed that in site explorer there were sites that were passing what I would consider strong amounts of link juice for their banner adverts.

I checked the anchor text which was always (Img ALT)

Also the links are follow and placed on the home page too.

So I wondered how google view this Im sure adverts were supposed to be no follow and if so then do you think there is a benefit from me taking one of these banner adverts to increase the level of link juice passing to my site.