Are Nofollow Links Good For SEO And Link Building Strategy?

INTRO: Nofollow link is a type of hyperlink that give instruction to search engine robots do not follow this link, by using rel=”nofollow” tag in html code. Here is an simple html example is given below.

<a href=”http://www.yoursite.com/page1” rel=”nofollow”>your Anchor text</a>

Majority of blog templates has built-in feature allowing visitors to comment on posts and leave a link back to their website, witch cases updating their blog frequently and Google like updating sites. That’s why bloggers do not turn off this feature. On other hand these blogs was the favorite and easiest place for link builders, witch brings result as link spamming. 
Nofollow tag was introduced by Google in 2005 to prevent spam link building. Google suggested to place these tags on comment section or any other place where visitors can leave their link.


Nofollow Link Gives Anchor Text Benefit

Some SEO experts claims with reference to their SEO tests, that nofollow links passes anchor text value. And they are right, they proved it. Any one can prove it by setting up a simple test, lets find a post with low traffic or make one new. find a keyword by searching Google that do not generate a result(you can use a keyword having some competition, it will take more time). now make 2-3 nofollow links using your keyword as anchor text. Wait SE to crawl them. You will find you page ranked for specific keyword, even ranked page did not contain that particular keyword in the body. Yes, i am also going to test. Update: I am working on test its taking too much time, and not generating expected results. I will clear it to you but let me clear it to my self.


Here another question arises, how much nofollow links are weighted for anchor text? it’s really difficult to answer exactly, as Google is unpredictable and changing their algorithm time to time. but I think links from high PR sites can bring more value to anchor text as well as links from more trusted sites like Wikipedia, .edu and .gov sites etc.
However lots of webmasters and SEO experts do not believe on it, some webmasters claims, we tried to build hundred's of nofollow links but in result we do not found noticeable positive change in SERPs. Just waste of time(But I don’t think so).


To Looks Natural To Search Engines

Well, how it will looks like if your blog site has hundred's of dofollow links but only one or two nofollow links. Without thinking, hopefully your answer will be “looks unnatural”. Problem is that Google encouraging every time for natural linking. It is possible that Google is using ratio between nofollow and dofollow  links(or other technique) to find out spammer's activity, maybe they are using or they can use in future. In both cases you are recommended to use both types of links for your link building strategy.
Again, lots of web masters and SEO experts do not believe on it, maybe they are true, but what if Google start using this or similar technique in future.


Good Source Of Traffic

Although nofollow links can brings good traffic to your site. Lets think in this way, what is your target? Whatever you do, your aim is to get traffic, not traffic but targeted and valuable traffic. That can be achieved by putting them in some related forums and blogs. Over there peoples already seeking for info and you can attract them answering and helping.

Disclaimer:This post is not forever green, as you know Google algorithm is changing time to time.

Google PR Update Feb 2012

Yesterday, i was amazed to know that my blog website PR Changed from zero to one, while using a tool named “seotest”. SEO report was front of me and I was analyzing, suddenly i saw my site PR 1/10. This report hanged me once, and then i immediately opened my blog in Google chrome (because i have installed Google PR add-on) and change in PR conformed.

Threads Found claiming PR Update

Next, i searched for “PR update” and I found some threads claiming Google PR update is ongoing. I also found some people saying their site PR increased. Also webmaster tool starts showing some new links.

Congratulations! if your site PR also increased. 

What Is The Use Of Blogger

Blogger is a most popular free blogging service provider just like wordpress. Making a blog with blogger is really very easy no coding required, user friendly graphical interface, just signup, give name to your blog, choose template (theme), select available subdomain (your subdomain will looks like www.yourname.blogspot.com), write welcome post and your blog is up. If you don’t like to use subdomain you can use your own registered domain by selecting custom domain option. Millions of peoples are using blogger for sharing their ideas and for making money.

So answer to the question “What is the use of blogger” is blogging. Let’s take a look at some features and limitations.

Some Features of Blogger:

Templates: Blogger offers premade templates for your blog that can be used by few clicks or change it later any time. Blogger template designer enables you to customize your blog template according to your style. Also dozens of templates are available over the web to download that you can apply to your blog by uploading.

Easy posting: Posting is also easy jest hit “new post”, type your thoughts, add some pictures or videos, give name to your post and click publish.

Group blogging: allows you to add your friends as an administrator or authors.

Earn money by placing any types of ads like AdSense ads, Amazon’s affiliate links and any third-party ads services.

Add different wide verity of available useful widget to your blog.

Limitations:

Blogger is another service from Google so that you need Gmail id to signup.

You can upload pictures and videos, videos will be hosted in Google videos. But any other files cannot be uploaded. You can use other free file hosting services.

100 blogs are limited per account and post are unlimited.

You do not have access to database.

Blogger Title Tag

This post is about changing blogger title tags for better SEO.
I guess majority knows about title tags, However i am giving little bit idea beginners. Title tags are used by internet browsers to show page title on tabs and by search engines to show in search results.

Title Tag Used By Search Engine

Title tags are highly important for SEO and SERP. By default blogger title tags are not SEO friendly. If anyone is using blogger pre-made template, it is highly recommended that you must change your blog title tags. Hopefully you will see increasing search engine result position in some days.

Blogger Generated Title Tag

In above fig. you can see that blogger shows blog name first then post name witch is bad.
Adding New Title Tag

1-Login to your blogger account.
2-Backup your Blog.
3-Go to template --> edit HTML.
4-Press Ctrl+f and Search for the following code.

<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

5-Replace the above code with one of the following code selecting your desired output.

Code (a)
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;'>
<title><data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageName/></title>
</b:if>

Code (a) Output

Code (a) Output: Most Popular Title



Code (b)
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;'> <title><data:blog.title/></title> <b:else/> <title><data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/></title> </b:if>

Code (b) Output

Code (b) Output: Also Good Title

6-After replacing, save template.

That's all, you have done. This will help you getting more visits. Good luck!