Nofollow can be bad for your site

**websensible** · 08-24-2009, 03:00 PM

Nofollowed links don't count as backlinks for the purposes of page rank calculation. That's the whole point. Google drops them from the link graph.

You'll still see them reported as backlinks - on Yahoo Site Explorer and Google Webmaster Tools, etc, but they are not contributing to your ranking.

**bryansmith** · 08-25-2009, 08:21 AM

Getting link is part of SEO but our ultimate goal is traffic. So if we can get relevant traffic to your site then its not needed to think is it nofollow or dofollow

**rockdale** · 09-22-2009, 08:59 AM

Originally Posted by bryansmith

Getting link is part of SEO but our ultimate goal is traffic. So if we can get relevant traffic to your site then its not needed to think is it nofollow or dofollow

right. it does not matter if the backlink is nofollow as long as it can provide good traffic to your site

**extomas** · 09-22-2009, 10:08 AM

NoFollow is the best way to protect your own PR and give you luxury to link out websites that you think potential for your visitors without a fear of loosing your own PR.