No Follow Tags

[orlandorealestate]

Should I be using no follow tags for my idx solution? The idx is held on an outside site and I currently have well over 100 links pointing to it on my site.

[leadsearchsolutions]

Depends on how many links are going out, what is the PageRank of your ID solutions, and are they competing for any of the same searches that you are.

If its a small number of links, and they have a PR of 5 or above, and they are not competing with you, then don't use rel=nofollow, otherwise use it. I suggest not using it because referencing a trusted site can help you become more trusted.

[kelsheikh]

Well, the nofollow rule really apllies to Google. Yahoo and MSN still indexes beyond the link.

[agentmonster]

I would second the "don't use them" answer. It's unnecessary in a case like yours. It's mostly used for publishers that sell ad space and don't want to pass PR.

[marcosll]

The nofollow still passes PR. It still count's as a vote.

nofollow is for google to not follow links into your own page. I.e. the spider won't follow them. However, they still get counted as a pr vote.


(http://www.palmestates.net)

[Mike Taylor]

I might be wrong, but I thought no follow = no vote and no PR passed along.

[marcosll]

I used to think so as well. Then I recently came across some discussions that talked about how nofollow passed PR and how Google changed their words relating to the issue and made it more vague.

Here's what I think:

Other search engines ingore the tag so you get votes from search engines like yahoo.

I've seen sites get weighted links from nofollows.

Maybe if the nofollow link comes from a RELATED site then it's counted.

Even if they don't pass PR they might still pass a non pr vote. Such that a link might actually rank your site for those anchor keywords even though no PR is passed.


(http://www.palmestates.net)

[Mike Taylor]

Thanks for the info...I will do some more research and see if I can come up with any more info.

[team_aguilar]

Marcosll is right, I have some no-follow links from a forum, and G counts them.

[nuvru]

Google might follow links with nofollow technically, but they don't give any credit to that link,, ie. they don't pass pagerank.

It was there way of dealing with blog comment spam back a few years ago. It hasn't detered spammers because yahoo and msn still followed the links,, but that has changed. They all accept and supposedly use it.

You can use nofollow internally as well. Meaning you can add nofollow to parts of your site you don't want to pass pagerank too,, like your IDX, privacy policy, usage policy, contact form or any other generic pages you don't need to rank.

That will build up the pagerank on your other pages giving you a boost in the serps.

[Gainesville_Real_Estate]

I might be wrong, but I thought no follow = no vote and no PR passed along.

That's what they say to the public, however I do not think it is entirely true.

[team_aguilar]

That's what they say to the public, however I do not think it is entirely true.

I agree, some of my BL have nofollow and are still counted.

[Jim B]

Google might follow links with nofollow technically, but they don't give any credit to that link,, ie. they don't pass pagerank.

It was there way of dealing with blog comment spam back a few years ago. It hasn't detered spammers because yahoo and msn still followed the links,, but that has changed. They all accept and supposedly use it.

You can use nofollow internally as well. Meaning you can add nofollow to parts of your site you don't want to pass pagerank too,, like your IDX, privacy policy, usage policy, contact form or any other generic pages you don't need to rank.

That will build up the pagerank on your other pages giving you a boost in the serps.

This is what I believe to be true as well. I do not think that Google has ever said though and likely will not ever say.

[tina.anderson]

So using no follow links can be a good thing for your own site? I didn't know that. I thought Yahoo and MSN still accepted them and that it was just Google that doesn't follow them, or has this changed recently?

[ExtraArm]

Google does not follow nofollow links at all.

The question is do you want the IDX pages to rank? If yes, don't nofollow. If no, add nofollow. If you're taking about a few dozen links, either way it won't make a huge difference.

[kidd24]

Always go with a follow tags than nofollow tags because follow tags helps your site to gain high PR.
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[rainier]

Agree with agentmonster, if will hard for you to get backlinks if you are going to used it.

[RJacobsen]

leadsearchsolutions (http://www.realestateforum.com/member.php?u=7961) is dead-on with his answer... I've found that linking out (without rel="nofollow") to high PR sites can be beneficial, but as mentioned you don't want to link out to too many sites (often less is better for your site). If you don't want to remove your links out to other sites, put the nofollow on the lower PR site links.

[jamesww]

One thing that should be noted for page rank is that if you have no out going links then it is as though you are linking to the entire internet. This reduces the HUB portions of your page rank.

[philippine_real_estate]

Here are some reasons why no follow tags sucks, its a nice article so i hope it helps:

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/13-reasons-why-nofollow-tags-suck/4410/

[apexonein]

The nofollow still passes PR. It still count's as a vote.

nofollow is for google to not follow links into your own page. I.e. the spider won't follow them. However, they still get counted as a pr vote.


(http://www.palmestates.net)

It actually not passes any value, so no googlebot do not look over there and just do not include it in index as well. So no question of PR vlue.
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Apexone

[AustinReilly]

I have the esact same situation as the original poster. we have a very professional, unique content real estate site but our listings search is run by a third party. I have links all over our site pointing to our search provider. I haven't gone through them and posted nofollow but I don't know if has ever affected our SEO.

[jerryscot]

Google might follow links with nofollow technically, but they don't give any credit to that link,, ie. they don't pass pagerank.

It was there way of dealing with blog comment spam back a few years ago. It hasn't detered spammers because yahoo and msn still followed the links,, but that has changed. They all accept and supposedly use it.

You can use nofollow internally as well. Meaning you can add nofollow to parts of your site you don't want to pass pagerank too,, like your IDX, privacy policy, usage policy, contact form or any other generic pages you don't need to rank.

That will build up the pagerank on your other pages giving you a boost in the serps.

I totally agree with you,meaning am not adding jack to the comment.