Dofollow Sites?

[LD]

I'm afraid that you'll need to ask the Red Queen.

You are right. But the question is rarely answered and all I hear is the diminishing echo of the question reverberating off the internal walls of the servers, never to be answered. Sigh...

[deepsand]

You are right. But the question is rarely answered and all I hear is the diminishing echo of the question reverberating off the internal walls of the servers, never to be answered. Sigh...

Having the White Knight talking backwards at the same time doesn't help either.

[MattC]

For now it is still a viable technique, but for how long we don't know. There has been talk about the next Google update giving less or no weight to forum and blog posts.

[deepsand]

For now it is still a viable technique, but for how long we don't know. There has been talk about the next Google update giving less or no weight to forum and blog posts.

A "viable technique" for attaining what?

Such links are already of exceedingly low value.

[celine33]

Agree with all of them, participating in nofollow forums relevant to your site will give you relevant traffic as well hence; probable clients or buyers too

[deepsand]

Agree with all of them, ...

Interesting, given that we are not all here in agreement!

... participating in nofollow forums relevant to your site will give you relevant traffic as well hence; probable clients or buyers too

So, if the links bear rel="nofollow" people aren't going to click on them?

Does this mean that such links are invisible? Or, perhaps that some tag is displayed that tells people not to use them? Or, ... ?

[marlowmcknight]

if the nofollow links do actually count, why is there such controversy over it? Where did it get started in the first place that they wouldn't count?

[deepsand]

if the nofollow links do actually count, why is there such controversy over it? Where did it get started in the first place that they wouldn't count?

The usual reason.

Rather than doing independent research, people just repeat the words of someone else who didn't completely and accurately do the research.

[deepsand]

Nofollow tag means to search engines that not follow through to that link

False.

not count the anchor text in determining what terms the page being linked to is relevant for.

False.

Already well explained here and elsewhere. Look for the facts, rather than just repeating someone else's falsehoods; they're out there.

[C0ldf1re]

... Look for the facts, rather than just repeating someone else's falsehoods; they're out there.

They are both out there! The facts and the falsehoods. The proportion of posts tend to favor the falsehoods, I think, thereby spreading the confusion.

... Rather than doing independent research, people just repeat the words of someone else who didn't completely and accurately do the research.

That is exactly what I plan to do. The research bit, I mean, not the other thing! There are a few forums where I post that give nofollow sig-links, and I plan to see if they cause a webpage to be indexed and/or boost it in serps. Not that I doubt a Deep, but previously accurate statements still need to be periodically checked to see if Google has changed the rules.