NoFollow - My findings

[casinojack]

Bottom line:

After my own testing I have made the following conclusions:

Nofollow links count as links to your site BUT do not pass PR.

Flame away!

[joeyl]

Are you saying 2 identical sites, 1 linked to from my site, but no followed, outranks the other without the nofollowed link pointing at it?

cheers.

[casinojack]

Site A has links, ALL no follow for a keyword. I am currently number 2. Number 1 Postion for same keyword, I ran a IBP reports, and shows he has more links then I do, and using backlinkwatch, with a combo of other tools, I see he has mostly follow. Hoever number 3 has more follow then I do, so in theory should rank higher.

As far as other variables, such as Keyword density, age of domain, etc etc pretty much neck and neck. Therefore, according to what you read out there, i should be below number 3, and I am not. This result has "stuck" for over 30 days.

[universal4]

The links that you do have may be from more authoritative sites and more themed than the others.

Rick
Universal4

[casinojack]

the links that you do have may be from more authoritative sites and more themed than the others.

Rick
universal4

bingo !!

[pgaming]

Bottom line:

After my own testing I have made the following conclusions:

Nofollow links count as links to your site BUT do not pass PR.

Flame away!

I believe your right Jack based on the original intent of the no follow tag. Intended not to give credit to a link using this tag. But I also believe it does much more and does no harm using it. In fact, the potential is to increase your rankings IMO.

Again I reserve this tag for affiliate programs. Some programs have sites that are not exactly Google friendly. Plus to a certain degree affiliates are competing with them why would we boost their PR?

greek39

[bbonline]

Bottom line:

After my own testing I have made the following conclusions:

Nofollow links count as links to your site BUT do not pass PR.

Flame away!

Yeah. That was one of the few tricks that webmasters or online marketers do apply on their site to eliminate PR juices.

[GaryTheScubaGuy]

Part of this issue is that we have monitored this forever (well - since 2007) as with many other onpage factors and we store them for future use - various tests, competitive intelligence or even trending.

When this came out of Matt's video, and subsequently SMX Advanced, myself along with at least a dozen other SEO's that store massive databases of historical algorithm changes for the purpose of possibly, 'breaking the code' or gaining a bit of knowledge looked at a 90-day timeline that extented 45 days before and 45 days after the stated May 2008 integration date.

Not one saw any difference. And they still don't.

So we tested basically the same thing you did CasinoJack, and came up with two conclusions;

1 - When tested in hyper - competitive sectors, and specifically the top 10 positions, the dofollow and nofollow had little or no effect on its own. But when coupled with silos and/or backlinks (of any strength), there was a slight difference

2 - In less competitive sectors such as retail there was a slight difference on competitive terms, and significant results in niche and longtail terms without any other enhanced attributes like the ones above (silos and links)

Take it for what its worth, but my recommendations are to use it to tweak if your out of other ideas and well ranked, but especially if you target niche and LT aggressively.