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Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization / SEO' started by leesar, Nov 10, 2011.

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    TheGAME1264 The Displaced Web Redneck Moderator

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    1) That doesn't mean the attribute exists. It was a term coined by a guy pissed off with Google over the introduction of the NoFollow attribute in 2005 (I think) when he named his WordPress plugin...a plugin that removed said attribute.

    The only people that ever adopted it and use it in any context other than the "doesn't exist" context are those who would fall into the "SEO wannabe" class. When they're called out on their stupidity, they either try to rationalize it or they try to ignore and think the bad people who have a clue will go away.

    2) Just because a link doesn't include the nofollow attribute doesn't mean it carries any weight whatsoever. It could be blocked by robots.txt or the meta robots tag, it could be part of an intranet, it could be one of the many types of links that Google devalues (paid links, article farms, directories, forum comments, and soon to come if not already, "social media"), it could be a link exchange page. It could have artificially generated PageRank. Those are just a few examples of links without the nofollow attribute enabled that don't count.

    In other words, there is no conclusive way to determine whether or not a page passes any perceived benefit to another page, nor will there ever be in all likelihood. A pattern of abuse of such a value has long since been clearly established.


    TheGAME1264, Nov 29, 2011
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    steve schmidt New Member

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    Yeah its very much useful for link and for your knowledge as well if you are not spamming that forums


    steve schmidt, Feb 27, 2012
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    Webzarus Well-Known Member

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    Here we go again... Before making post... Perhaps read the entire thread ... Or does that slow down the process of just posting useless tidbits of useless "repeat ad nauseous"... And drive up your post count ?

    If you bothered to read the post.... Or perhaps you did read it and didn't understand it...

    Summary: there is no such thing as "DOFOLLOW". So the only answer to the original posters question is NO !!!!!

    So the challenge is on again, hey, anyone can join in... Please provide a link to official documented information supporting your claim !!!! Please, if it exist anywhere other than a blog... Let's say an official source supported by some kind of actual intelligence.

    Anxiously waiting ... Zzzzzz


    Webzarus, Feb 28, 2012
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    I haven't decided whether all those users are bots or if they are just really stupid people :)


    shovenose, Feb 28, 2012
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    steve schmidt New Member

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    yeah but if we take in other words than OP meant which is not nofollow right? than?


    steve schmidt, Feb 29, 2012
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    Webzarus Well-Known Member

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    Since you didn't bother to read the original post...

    The only question is about "do follow" WHICH DOES NOT EXIST ... If you have proof that the "DO FOLLOW" has the opposite standard as the recognized "NOFOLLOW" standard, please post a relevant link to that standard.

    Don't assume ... State facts... http://www.robotstxt.org/meta.html

    Please provide a link to the standard that SAYS dofollow exist as a standard recognized by ???


    Webzarus, Feb 29, 2012
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    steve schmidt, Feb 29, 2012
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    Not an authoritative source...

    Opinions are like noses everyone has one...

    Do you not understand what a fact is ?


    Webzarus, Feb 29, 2012
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    Matt Cutts may work for google, and on occasion he actually speaks on googles behalf.. But google ( despite what you may think ), doesn't control the Internet or standards that actually function on the Internet...

    So let's put it in realistic terms based on fact.

    If you embed the meta tag "NOFOLLOW" on your page... The search engine does not follow.

    If you embed the tag NOFOLLOW in a link... The search engine does not follow.

    Since there is no "standard" and search engines will follow any link or links on pages that are not specifically marked "NOFOLLOW" , there is no need for "do follow"...

    I'm going to create a new standard... Call it "Drink the Koolaid" ... Embed it in my pages and see if it has better response and builds my back links better than "do follow"...


    Webzarus, Feb 29, 2012
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    Dofollow forums don't exist.



    TheGAME1264, Jul 21, 2012
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    Are you sure Dofollow doesn't exist? I read somewhere on the interwebz that it does, so I'm sure that's the truth, and you must be incorrect!

    :bounce::smug:


    shovenose, Jul 21, 2012
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    TheGAME1264 The Displaced Web Redneck Moderator

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    Oh, well if you read it somewhere on the Interwebz, then it's automatically true.

    I also read once that putting naked octopuses with human genitalia on the home page of your website automatically gives it #1 guaranteed ranking on Google. So let's all do that, too! :D


    TheGAME1264, Jul 21, 2012
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    AlphaMare WDF Moderator

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    Geez - that must be why even though the fantastically expensive SEO experts I hired when they e-mailed me a form letter saying they could help me out so much can't get me into the #1 slot - I'm only halfway down the first page - they've been using fully clothed octopi with horse genitalia... go figure! I better not tell them though, because now I can use this super-exclusive secret formula myself to get me and all my clients the #1 ranking! And then I can sell the formula in a secret white paper download for $49.95 to millions of sheeple who will then also be #1! My fortune is made!


    AlphaMare, Jul 22, 2012
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    Because there is no such attribute as "dofollow". It was a term made up by an SEO wannabe when he wanted to name a plugin back in 2005 (I believe) because he wanted to capitalize on the SEO wannabe hissy fit that was collectively thrown over Google's implementation of the "nofollow" attribute.

    If there is no such attribute as "dofollow", "dofollow" forums in turn cannot exist.


    TheGAME1264, Jul 23, 2012
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    I'm surprised to see users providing well-informed answers to such a stereotypical question like that asked by the OP. There isn't forum related to SEO without this question. Probably the OP was expecting people to come and say something in broken English like: "do-follow forum posts type are much important for keywords ranking on search engine". If you're interested in what the forum members say and if you think you have some information to share with the others, you're free to speak. If you just want to see your signature, promoting your own products, you'll get banned and you'll be wasting your time and the others'. Sometime in the future they will invent a punishment for wasting people's time, for sure.


    breactiv, Aug 1, 2012
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    That punishment already exists. Anyone who wastes people's time on an SEO forum will end up going to Hell and be forced to sit on a computer and read those posts all day, every day.


    TheGAME1264, Aug 1, 2012
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    m3n0tu18 WDF Moderator and Drupalite!

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    Done it.... it didn't work :(


    m3n0tu18, Aug 2, 2012
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    Sigmainfotech New Member

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    According to my experience,Forum Commenting is beneficial for good results.


    Sigmainfotech, Aug 23, 2012
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    Well, not in this forum - we are a nofollow forum, so there are not backlinks available here.
    Your best chance for SEO is to have good content, and build the SEO into the site as you go.
    Google is going more and more towards natural language in search - keyword stuffing and link farming are going the way of the dinosaurs.


    AlphaMare, Aug 23, 2012
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    Yes I agree with that Good Content and quality backlinks is most important for good results,but many forum website are provide dofollow backlinks,therefore I was told Forums is beneficial.


    Sigmainfotech, Aug 23, 2012
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