rel="nofollow" on freesite listings..

[pornhitzman]

Originally Posted by oldbrad

I just turned it from 250 categories (as usual made it far too big too early) down to the few you see, actually just changed it all a few days ago. I do have nofollow on most of the links, but these aren't submitted sites. These are 100% sites that i have picked up, that don't have recips anyway, so any traffic they get is a bonus that they shouldn't expect anyway, or sponsored sites.

Any submitted sites that i get, or PR trades that i may end up doing in the future, will not use the nofollow. Until then, i was trying to keep the extremely small amount i do have between my sites.

In my mind this is far different then adding nofollow to submitted sites with recips or pr trades.

Actually, if a freesite gave me a decent amount of traffic in return i wouldn't care if i got a nofollow or not personally.

Google Pr of 3 with an extra 30K from all the freesites in traffic a day, or a Pr 7 with nothing coming back in, i'd take the traffic. I get your guys point and this is an overstated example, but i think it rings true.

In my case, the nofollow use was actually more about somebody learning something new and over using it. I think on mine i'll strip it back down to using only on ads for a couple reasons, not really about this thread.

For one, for me it was more of "learning a new tool and overusing it". On my story page and most freesites i didn't use the nofollow on anything, even ads, because i wasn't sure what it's function was. When i learned, like a lot of people, figured if a little was good a lot was better.

And secondly, with all the webmasters doing it i believe there will be, if not already, a penalty they will come up with that (even if not following the link) maybe will count the nofollows and mark down pr anyway removing any point of doing it. No functional reason for 400 nofollows on a page.

So again, i get everyones points and new that i had nofollow on my site on most links and figured people would see that, so i still stand by what i said and i think, at least in my case, it's a little different than others.

Main purpose of nofollow is to prevent spammed urls on blogs to gain any weight in the SEs. If the tag is used, then PR is preserved on that page and it doesn´t matter if there are 400 links or 10 000 links, so I cannot really see a reason why the page itself should get a penalty. There are many "dead" blogs that get spammed continiously and the best way for google and other SEs to deal with this is simply by keeping the PR intact on that page and prevent passing down of any weight to the spammed urls. That´s the main purpuse of rel="nofollow", but it can also be used with any url on any type of site. Take a look at wikipedia for an example, they use rel="nofollow" on all their external links, thus keeping all PR inside itself and creating a really powerful site.

I and many others like to use nofollow on sponsor links to keep most of the PR on our own sites, but as I said earlier, adding it to freesite listings would be wrong.

I see that you use it on freesites you added to fill your LL and there´s no problem with that.