Does google count no follow links?

[DonnieSEO]

There is always controversy over what google counts and what it dosent.. Take second and put yourself in googles shoes, you want to show your audience the best results.. Right?
I dont think it matters google spiders crawl everything and they overall analyze what a site is worth. I think if a site has 0 "no-follow" links it will look unnatural to the search engine and might not rank as well.

[jcorkern]

Originally Posted by minstrel

Not sure about that. Other than some navigation links, I refuse to use nofollow.

I was referring more to inbounds, not links on the site itself. Like a press release that is syndicated, a large % of them nofollow the links.

I am pretty sure you get a fair share of nofollow links as others link to your sites that are oblivious to what kind of links they are even using to link to your sites.

[minstrel]

Originally Posted by jcorkern

I was referring more to inbounds, not links on the site itself. Like a press release that is syndicated, a large % of them nofollow the links.

I am pretty sure you get a fair share of nofollow links as others link to your sites that are oblivious to what kind of links they are even using to link to your sites.

Ah, yes, I see. Thanks for the clarification.

[jcorkern]

Originally Posted by DonnieSEO

I dont think it matters google spiders crawl everything and they overall analyze what a site is worth. I think if a site has 0 "no-follow" links it will look unnatural to the search engine and might not rank as well.

I believe the point was that they do spider, track user reactions to the visitors on any specific site through people with a google toolbar, plus 1 accounts. Then this data is pooled, and they look for common traits. They also do the same with links. I am pretty sure they know what % of dofollows they should have for any given niche or category.

I am also sure it changes from time to time because things on the web change fast, they have to slow down gaming of the system.

So, what they spider does matter and play a part in what factors or "signals" they setup to clean up the serps, but I do agree that you have to have a certain number of nofollow and dofollow, non essential anchors like "click here" and "visit their website" and the links. There is also a host of other factors.

The trick is that you do not have to get them all perfect, just closer to what they are looking for than your comp, kinda like a sliding scale when it comes to inbound links.

Onpage? That is a whole different ballgame with Panda in the bushes. You had better have the site right, or the sweet little panda bear will knock you down with absolute fury.

In fact, for the first time even, my team is more focused on the site than they are on links, and that is the truth.

[DonnieSEO]

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[Kathleen]

Hi,

No follow links with relevant and good quality of sites matters alot.