Comments on: Stop Wasting SEO Juice – NoFollow Links To Flickr

By: nymortgagerefinancing

nymortgagerefinancing — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:05:20 +0000

With almost every single site in existence today having nofollow turned on how are people supposed to get links?

By: N.F.S.

N.F.S. — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 23:13:08 +0000

If you really wanted to get mean (and why not), one thing that might be fun is nofollowing everybody who advertises with Yahoo (or Flickr), and being public about it. So longer as Yahoo (and Flickr) nofollow outbound links, these companies would be nofollowed in reply, even after they stopped advertising with Yahoo. Hit them where it hurts: in the pocketbook, getting their own advertisers on their back about this, if enough people participate in this link love boycott.

BTW, sorry to seem to be following up on myself, when I’m really posting a follow up to your post, but I saw no way to reply to a reply.

By: commercial photographers

commercial photographers — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:22:51 +0000

Thanks for the post, I had a flickr account a few years ago and pulled it due to some mistreatment to a friend who was posting there by flickr. I was just about to set up an account again to upload some of my hipstamatic images and get a little juice back to my pro site, now I am not sure. So thanks for the post and the thread has been interesting to read.

Cheers Dave::

By: kerouac3001

kerouac3001 — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:27:06 +0000

How to insert links without nofollow on Flickr:
http://en.vinz.info/how-to-insert-links-without-nofollow-on-flickr.html

By: Hackadelic

Hackadelic — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 08:46:59 +0000

@Joe, thanks for the insightful note. So nofollowed links on Wikipedia still pass on PR juice? Even on outbound links? Because Google has announced a while ago that "nofollow" will neither conserve nor pass PR juice.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:56:43 +0000

I have actually done a lot of research on this, and I have come to the conclusion that although NoFollow does definitely curb the amount of juice that comes from the link, it doesn’t eliminate it entirely.

People used to create large numbers of spam pages on their website, and nofollow all of the irrelevant links. What eventually happened was webpages were only being indexed for the top content they have, and they were able to throw spammy content all over the website for keyword stuffing purposes. So they can throw tons of keywords in links, and have crap at the destination.

But Google understood this exploit, and has therefore diminished the power of NoFollow on all but the top high profile websites such as wikipedia.

By: Hackadelic

Hackadelic — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:07:29 +0000

Valid

By: jocuri

jocuri — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:18:50 +0000

As from my experience, best way to raise your PR is backlinks, i have a website which has 10 links from 10 .edu domains, and i am on the top search keyword. So if you want to get there fast, find some link exchange with edu domains rather than getting 100000 backlinks which are equal to 10 edu links.

By: Hackadelic

Hackadelic — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:20:52 +0000

DJH, you are right, the SEO biz is more driven by myths than by reality. (Many SEO’s admit this – about other SEO’s. )

It’s because nobody knows for sure how Google works internally. Some conduct their own experiments, but they are far from being “scientific” (since SEO’s are not scientists), and the conclusions drawn from them are almost certainly not representative of the truth (even if they do manage to derive some effective but IMO mostly short-lived techniques from them).

The point is, the whole SEO biz is actually trying to beat an evaluation system (which Google is), instead of providing their best content and allowing the system to evaluate it without manipulation. When we were at school, trying to beat the school’s evaluation system to get better grades was clearly known as cheating. Need I say more?

By: Art Jewelry

Art Jewelry — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:45:03 +0000

They threatened to remove my account because I had links to my website in my descriptions.
The links were not even to a sales site.
I’m thinking of just closing my account.