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

By: Hackadelic

Hackadelic — Wed, 26 May 2010 18:11:33 +0000

N.F.S., IMO the “nofollow reciprocity” plugin nofollows all these and more already.

By: Hackadelic

Hackadelic — Wed, 26 May 2010 18:06:20 +0000

Tony, the “ranking” you talk about is keyword ranking, i.e. actual position in search results for a specific keyword. Of course it’s not the only factor, there are many on-page factors that influence this. But according to Google – and they did confirm this – page rank does not flow through a nofollowed link. Hence, all other things being equal, nofollowed links are worthless in terms of PR.

I wonder why you say “it’s safe to say that the existence of links from nofollow sites [...] will have an effect on rankings in the future”, while one paragraph before you wrote that the influence of nofollowed links is “up in the air” and unconfirmed by Google. Unless you have some evidence, this sounds like wild speculation to me.

The opposite is true: It is safe to say that nofollowed links DO NOT pass page rank. First and foremost, because Google have invented nofollow, and they gave it its semantics, too (to not pass PR).

By: N.F.S.

N.F.S. — Thu, 20 May 2010 17:44:53 +0000

May I toss in a suggestion? In addition to no-following links to Flickr, no-follow all links to yahoo.com, and any other domain owned by Yahoo.

After all, Flickr is nothing more than one of the masks that Yahoo wears these days.

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 13 May 2010 22:18:06 +0000

Massy, I think there’s more to be said than a strict “no” for your question.

Hackadelic, you know that Pagerank is not the only rankings factor. It’s clear as soon as you see that a PR3 site ranking above a PR4 that there are other rankings factors than simply Pagerank.

Whether Nofollow links are included in any of these “other” rankings factors is up in the air. Google has neither confirmed nor denied that a simple citation (just having your URL listed on another page, not necessarily DoFollow and not necessarily even a link) influences rankings.

I think it’s safe to say that the existence of links from nofollow sites, including Twitter, Wikipedia, Flickr, and Facebook will have an effect on rankings in the future (that is, if they do not currently have such an effect).

By: Hackadelic

Hackadelic — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:31:57 +0000

Massy, it should be obvious that the answer is “No”. (No page rank given => no change in ranking.)

By: Massy

Massy — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:21:45 +0000

While a nofollowed link doesn’t give pagerank does it affect your actual ranking in google?

By: Hackadelic

Hackadelic — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:58:53 +0000

James, right, images (and videos) are known to have that effect. But it does not affect your pagerank, while a dofollowed link from Flickr would.

By: James

James — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:07:56 +0000

I for one have noticed that my Flickr photos do add another search result for my companies website. In a field as niche as mine having a few search results for my company is a big plus in my opinion. Or am I just ignorant?

JPF~

By: Hackadelic

Hackadelic — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:19:30 +0000

Charlotte, welcome. FYI, you still get the human traffic from the flickr pages, but the page rank those pages have doesn’t contribute to your website.

By: Charlotte Houses

Charlotte Houses — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:32:01 +0000

Hackadelic, thanks for this news. I have spent time on Flickr building optimized sets thinking it might do my site good… go figure.