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[deepsand]

Even though it's not crawled (or measured at least) by spiders, ...

Bzzzzzz.

From the above cited thread, begin at post #21, where I state, with respect to Google:

A number of parties have, over the past several years, reported test results showing that anchor text of a nofollow link does show in the SERPs for a given target page when :

• the target page has been previously indexed; and,
• the link is the only, or first of several, on the source page pointing to the target page in question.

Also, not that each SE handles nofollow differently.

[raj kumar]

Well, one reason to take a backlink even if it's "nofollow", is that your link profile increases for one, and you could also end up with some residual traffic. The best advice I've heard and taken to heart, is not to avoid or underestimate the value of any link that makes sense and not to focus on whether a link is nofollow or not.

Yes, that is true, you are basically building links for getting targeted traffic, as you play on the internet field to link back to your site. This has to be, for sure natural. So it is...

[deepsand]

Yah it crawler don't follow to no-follow link. But traffic will come.

No crawler/robot/spider "follows" any link; they just fetch what an indexing engine tells them to.

And, as has been repeatedly noted, both here and elsewhere, indexing engines do not simply ignore links bearing "nofollow."

[trendisle]

Google does not pass a nofollow link from a high-authority site (like Wikipedia for example). This will not affect your search engine rankings.

[raj kumar]

Google does not pass a nofollow link from a high-authority site (like Wikipedia for example). This will not affect your search engine rankings.

Although it doesn’t but as an SEO, try to have 5 to 10% of your link profiles with no follow links. These would look natural.

[LD]

Although it doesn’t but as an SEO, try to have 5 to 10% of your link profiles with no follow links. These would look natural.

How would this percentage look natural when more and more links are nofollow these days? I really don't look at the code that often, and do just out of curiosity mostly, but when I do look - almost every time the link is a nofollow link.

[deepsand]

Google does not pass a nofollow link from a high-authority site (like Wikipedia for example). This will not affect your search engine rankings.

Setting aside the fact that "nofollow" links can be indexed, and count towards one Link Profile, there is no relationship between "nofollow" and authority, so that this post makes absolutely no sense.

[merlot105]

Well, one reason to take a backlink even if it's "nofollow", is that your link profile increases for one, and you could also end up with some residual traffic. The best advice I've heard and taken to heart, is not to avoid or underestimate the value of any link that makes sense and not to focus on whether a link is nofollow or not.

I agree with @LD. Although many so-called SEO experts claim that no-follow links play no part in improving your rankings, it is not certain as to how Google perceives these links. For instance, if you sign up for a Google Webmaster account, you'll be able to track backlinks to your site, and there you will be able to see both follow and no-follow backlinks. This alone should tell you that even if Google doesn't use no-follow links in their algorithms, they still take note of the link. Google also likes to see a large variety of different types of links, so having no-follow links is never a bad thing.

[weegillis]

Webmasters made rel="nofollow" what it is today. It was never a ranking metric parameter, just a PR gate. Google invented it to stop webmasters from passing PR down to the sites who paid them to place the link in an attempt to manipulate the SERPs via assumed popularity.

Then webmasters got the idea, "Hey, Google won't pass PR to nofollow related links so we can use it as a counter measure against comment spammers!"

Then Google got pissed off that their invention had been subverted so took their cards off the table. Now there was no way of telling whether PR was passing down the nofollow related links or not. We knew well enough all along that robots were cataloging the links regardless. But as to which were actually passing PR? Well that was and is up to Google. The original design is reduced to a road sign: link ahead that might be a waste of your time. As if there could be such a thing to the data hungry Google appetite.

It wouldn't have been so bad if webmasters hadn't introduced the 'element of trust' in the codicil to their refactoring of the nofollow relation. This, I'd guess is what pissed Google off the most. Why hadn't THEY thought of that? "Do no evil" would be yesterday's news if only it had been their idea. Shit!

And to add insult to injury webmasters started 'sculpting' their pages to leave only links exposed that they intended to ever receive PR. All the rest were assigned, you guessed it, a nofollow relationship. Anyone who thinks that Google didn't kick back after this one is, well, thinking what they are. I would say that this was the 'crossing the line moment' when Google did react. Not in overt, in your face for getting in their pie sort of ways, but by coining new terminology and buzz words about search, and doctoring the technology to relegate the nofollow to nothing more than a courtesy you give a robot: You saw this one already, don't waste your time.

Personally, I have no outbound links that do not receive the measure of whatever PR is in the pipeline, and only nofollow internal links that are duplicated in the same page or that have no significance to the internal link profile of the site. This is really what REL=NOFOLLOW boils down to, today. So please, let's just agree to stop bringing it up.

[mandocontrol]

Although it doesn’t but as an SEO, try to have 5 to 10% of your link profiles with no follow links. These would look natural.

5 to 10 % does not look natural at all! When i look into a healty good ranking site i think it will be more like 50-70 procent nofollow and google knows this.
If you are trying only to get links from dofollow sites maybe not now but in the future perhaps google will down grade your site.