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There is a strong belief, and it must be true as well. Google calculates number and quality of backlinks to your blog or post to award a PR Number. I think, it’s unnecessary to repeat that you should increase backlink and retain your PR Juice from leaking so as to improve in PageRank. In this context, there arises the concept of Nofollow and Dofollow. There are contradictory views. Most of us believe that Dofollow will leak your PR Juice causing negative effect to your PageRank. There are some bloggers who oppose the concept. Some of us have turned into Nofollow again due to the flood of spam comments.
I’m Running a Test
Let me announce this and share with you all. I have converted all of the links on comments into Dofollow. This way I will be leaking as much as possible PR Juice. On the next Google PR Update I will be losing most of the PageRank and reflect in reduced PR. Currently, this blog is Google PR 4 from the April Update. We’ll draw the result on coming update. I won’t be allowing spam comments though. I will be moderating comments manually and disapprove spams like “Nice Post”. Similarly comments with lots of links will be deleted. Only good comments with considerable length are to be approved and published. Don’t forget, I have right to expect quality comments as I have rewarded you with as much juice you can lick.
Am I Crazy?
You might question why am I doing this? Yes, I am crazy, if you think that way. But let me measure it up what will be the difference. Is this dofollow, that hamper the PR in real?
Come reap me off!
You are cordially invited to drain my PR Juice away. Post your comments and links. Your comments will be enriching my content and my PR Juice will be increasing your PageRank, fair deal, isn’t it? You all are welcome!
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.Update:
After running dofollow links on my blog I lost PR 1 but still I am not sure if it is due to dofollow or there might be many other factors that caused the PR reduced by one. Now the PR is 3.
And now, because I've changed the niche and purpose of this blog to totally different, there remains no use of dofollow or nofollow. I'm started to flow on default setting of links.
But as I read lots of literature during this period, I started to feel that its bit unethical to mark links dofollow delibrately. In fact the dofollow and nofollow attributes were devised so that author could decide which of the links worth following and which are not. Turning everything dofollow or nofollow is just ignoring the responsibility the search engines expects from a good webmaster. I started to believe that it is good to mark a link dofollow only if it deserves. A webmaster can't just leave it to everybody's play thing.
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@icttrends Hey, may I ask how do you determine whether a blog is a dofollow or not? Cause I’m not sure whether mine is.
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Just look at the code if there is rel=“nofollow” inside the tag it is nofollow otherwise it is dofollow. You can find some extensions for firefox that will mark the nofollow or dofollow links with color.
Twitter: KevinMartineau
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I am curious to see how your test turns out Suresh! I can’t see how it is going to be negative though.
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Please update me as to the results of your test. I am extremely interested in how it turns out. I use searchstatus to help me better understand each site that I visit. One of the options is to highlight no-follow links. It also can give you a link breakdown as well as PR, etc. It is free for firefox users. I only mention it because the previous comment was wondering about no-follow links. There is also a plugin for wordpress that will make your blog do-follow. Again, please keep us all informed as to the results and thanks for the juice! Best, Houdini
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We tend to link out liberally. Often times, a single blog entry of ours will link out to Flickr, Google Maps, and an authority site. I think Google weighs the activity on the blog, and who you are linking out to, more than the PR that is ‘lost.‘
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Suresh
Your pagerank shouldn’t decrease for passing linkjuice through comments. PR is mainly determined by the links pointing to your site. Though it may sound wired to some folks PR won’t decrease by having more OBL. (Outbound Link). It is fact.
Some people think that NO. Of OBL will determine their PR but its not true at all. Only the number of Incomming Links will determine your PR. Folks are requested to check OBL of popular sites like bbc.co.uk , CNN.Com etc. They have 100s of OBL and dofollow.
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The points you have raised here worth considering. The most popular sites do have tons of outbound link, but my friend, are they dofollow OBL? If there is no role of do follow outbound links, why would there exist nofollow?
Twitter: shirleyszone
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Really interesting test, Suresh. I think my blog is a nofollow one but I haven’t really gone into finding out if it really is or not but I once saw the nofollow tag in my blog’s code somewhere so I guess it is.
I think that making your blog a dofollow also helps you get many commenters apart from the spammy ones.
Have a nice day
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Thank you Shirley for your words. I hope the increased interraction worth more than being snob of PR. We’ll see after around three months if it really reduces PR too?
Will be very interesting to see how this turns out as it is something I have though about recently. I think you will lose some of your pr (next update about 3 months away I think) but you could get more traffic to your site as it might not affect where you appear in SERPs and you will probably get tonnes of traffic of people trying to take advantage of your dofollow links. I will follow with interest none the less.
Brian
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Thank you Brian for you views. I’m glad to lose some PR in return to more traffic and more comments. Let’s see by how much it will get decreased though. I will always be welcoming comments and always happy to share the PR Juice.
Suresh, for sure i am talking about dofollow OBL. Check the popular sites. You can use SEO Quake Plugin (Mozilla) which will show you detailed link report of page.
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So, you believe I won’t lose any PageRank value. It would be great then. I’m going to have huge traffic, lots of comments and no loss in PR. I wonder how they have made their blog nofollow.
Anyway lets wait for conclusion till Google updates PageRank. We’ll have the proof then.
Suresh, the reason why people make nofollow is to pass PR juice to their pages. If you had made this site nofollow then PR juice would have passed to your sites inner pages and posts. When you make dofollow PR will be passed to others.
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well i will be waiting to see the results you get in the next PR update . Having comments and user engagement is good
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Good luck. You will probably get tons of spam, but I do not think you’ll see a decrease in page rank. It’s good to be dofollow. More blogs should be! Cheers, Tia
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Thanks Tia for your views. I hope Akismet will work fine for spams and I have made auto-approve OFF. If it were only for spams, I don’t see any point in making NOFOLLOW.
I have also recently made my comments dofollow — I don’t believe that it will reduce the Page Rank, there’s just a risk of a lot of spam comments…
We will know soon enough, I’m guessing the next update will be the first weekend of July!
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Yes Keith, I noticed your blog allowed dofollow links. We can draw conclusion very soon.
I am surprised why you are passing juice to footer links set default by theme. Your footer has Aquom designed by File Search In conjunction with Articles , News , Search containing 4 links.
Please remove those links. If the footer coding is encrypted then you can replace it by HTML code. It is not a big deal.
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I’m not worried about passing link juice to anybody be it comment authors or the links in my posts or the footer credits till the PageRank update by Google. As you know Baba, I’m in a test. I want to see how much will the ‘Dofollow’ outbound links affect in PR (increment or decrement whatever).
I feel it necessary to pass the link juice to anybody who write good comments that contribute the post. This is the way to thank the comment authors. Dofollow for those 4 links is another BIG Thanks to the theme creaters whose hard work I’m using without paying them.
We’ll see the outcome in coming PR Update by Google. Then, we’ll discuss again, with the conclusion what would be better for future!
Twitter: nzcreativeweb
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As a person who also is involved in this industry, I am very greatful for the great info you have put up on here. As you may know, web design and development is ever-changing, and to keep up with the pace of that growth we have to keep learning and experimenting, and your info has given me some great ideas and advice. Looking forward to more of your ideas…
Twitter: BecomePerformer
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Thanks for the information. I’ve only recently learned about the whole “dofollow” and “nofollow” links. But from what I’ve learned, Page Rank is determined by links coming into your site, not linking going out, right? Not sure how allowing dofollow posts in your blog would affect page rank. Then again, it seems like I’m learning new things every day.
I’ve saved this page to my favorites as I’ll be checking back for the results.
Great test — I’m very keen on finding out what the result is.
You said that your PR started at 4 in April, my SEO tool is telling me that your index page is now down to 3… Obviously other factors could affect this, but if it’s simply down to this experiment, then that’s quite a quick down shift by Google!
Personally I think it does have an affect, simply to stop people buying domains and linking like mad to the site they want to promote. You don’t see a lot of external follow links on the big boy sites do you?
How long are you going to run the test for and when’s your next update going to be may I ask?
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Yes the PR has dropped down to 3 from 4. But still, I can not conclude its because of dofollow.
Test still continues till next update.
From the old “horde the juice” mindset there would have been a lot of naysayers regarding the “leaking” of all this juice.
However, at this point, we have plenty of bloggers such as Sire over at wassup.com blog that have over and over again disproven this at least in their own tests.
That said though there’s a lot of factors that go into making a successful, revenue generating site besides just page rank. Even google now downplays the significance of page rank by removing it from webtools.
I look forward to your future results!
Kimberly
PS: You followed my intensedebate link off of Nile Flore’s blog and I saw you listed and came over here. You have a really nice site, I’ll definitely be back!
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Thanks Kim for stopping by and the views you’ve pointed out. Let’s wait till the next PR update.
Flore’s blog is one of my favourite blogs.
I’ve been following this for a while and notice you’ve still got a PR 3. I think you need some more links on here!
One question I have is that although the domain has a PR 3, this page has no rank in itself. Therefore, won’t any links from this page leave the rank of the domain intact anyway?
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Hi Suresh,
How about your blog links to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Sociable and others through plugins?
Are they all dofollow on your blog?
I am planning to use flickr photo’s but am wondering if that would have a big effect on my pagerank.
Any idea?
Regards
Frank
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Most of the plugins like facebook, twitter etc uses javascript to display their content on your page and as we all know javascripts are not visible to search engine crawlers, it does not matter whether your blog is dofollow or nofollow. It won’t cause effect on any sense. So, there’s no problem to use them.