Comments on: Should I Disavow No-follow Links?

By: Ellie Jonas

Ellie Jonas — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 09:30:56 +0000

One of my clients got a penalty for Unnatural inbound links and after updating a disavow file and doing a consideration request Google responded with the 2 example link by saying “Unnatural inbound links persist” and out of that 2 links is no-follow on anchor. What do you suggest I do now?

By: Kaleem

Kaleem — Sun, 16 Dec 2018 14:40:18 +0000

I think No follow backlinks should not be Disavowed, because having all the do follow backlinks will tell google that this a black hat seo. I may be wrong.

By: Pat Johnson

Pat Johnson — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 16:26:29 +0000

Hummmm, a few weeks ago, I spent 4 hours disavowing tons of spam backlinks to my site. I am confused about whether to go back undo them or not if you are saying it don’t matter. One thing is I noticed my traffic had went down significantly before Google’s new algorithm changed a month ago, so I assumed it had to be spam links. Moz also listed those links as heavy spam sites that were linking to mine..So I am really confused at this point.

By: Mido

Mido — Sun, 25 Sep 2016 21:21:12 +0000

I usually don’t disavow Nofollow backlinks because Nofollow tag is used by all general sites which give you backlink that is not related to your website niche, So Google doesn’t give them any attention.

By: Rubel

Rubel — Sat, 13 Feb 2016 05:31:08 +0000

Brilliantly Written post.

But, I am still not sure, whether I should go for Nofollow Links or not?

Because some articles say, nofollow links helps in ranking, but some say, it does not have any effect, when it comes to SEO.

So, What should i do? Currently, I am just building dofollow links via guest posting.

Appreciate your time.

By: Hans Braumüller

Hans Braumüller — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 20:47:42 +0000

Thanks Razvan for your reply, at the end I add nofollow links to a disavow file, which i encountered as spam like comments. Regarding Atinder, if a link is trustworthy my opinion is that it does not mind if it is follow or nofollow, when it brings visitors to your site.

By: Razvan Gavrilas

Razvan Gavrilas — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 13:11:33 +0000

you will not find a perfect conclusion as reverse engineering does not provide exact results 🙂 back

By: Atinder

Atinder — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 12:26:26 +0000

Well, according to my experiments, which i did in last few months, Nofollow Links does pass any link juice directly, but if those Nofollows are from authority sites and are from the body of the post, then it can help in ranking. But still, haven’t able to find the perfect conclusion. So, I think, we should not built nofollow links intentionally, as it cannot help directly to ranking.

I may be wrong. What you think about this?

By: Razvan Gavrilas

Razvan Gavrilas — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 10:36:22 +0000

we will never know for sure Hans 🙂 unless Google confirms it strongly 🙂

By: Hans Braumüller

Hans Braumüller — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 08:24:48 +0000

Hi,

I am not sure; technically Google says that with the Disavow list they recrawled all these backlinks, so they take out the PageRank / passing link juice of these backlinks, the same that if a backlink is already marked up with nofollow.

If there a is manual penalty, it could help add nofollow backlinks, so you point to the search quality team, that you know, that this is SPAM, helping to get lifted the penalty.

But for the algorithmic, I think there is no positive effect.