{"id":3124,"date":"2013-07-08T15:31:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T15:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/?p=3124"},"modified":"2013-07-08T15:31:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T15:31:40","slug":"should-i-disavow-no-follow-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/3124\/should-i-disavow-no-follow-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I Disavow No-follow Links?"},"content":{"rendered":"

After our unnatural link detection<\/a>\u00a0launch last week, a lot of people asked if they should disavow NO-FOLLOW links.<\/p>\n

The short answer<\/strong> is that there is no exact answer<\/strong> on this.<\/p>\n

There are 2 major, contradictory, opinions on this:<\/p>\n

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  1. No<\/strong>. You shouldn\u2019t disavow No-follow links, as Google says it doesn\u2019t pass any ranking juice to them. [GOOGLE APPROVED]<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Yes<\/strong>. You should disavow No-follow links as they might be created using unnatural methods and they could add up in the unnatural link mix.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    1. Why shouldn\u2019t I disavow No-follow links?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

    First of all there is an official Google representative that confirmed this. His name is John Muller<\/a> and he is a Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google Switzerland.<\/p>\n

    Here is what John has to say about it:<\/p>\n


    \n<\/object><\/center>And here is the definition of the No-follow link<\/a> from Google\u2019s General Guidelines:<\/p>\n

    \u00a0“No-follow” provides a way for webmasters to tell search engines “Don’t follow links on this page” or “Don’t follow this specific link.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    \u00a0<\/em>Important Note:<\/strong><\/span> If you use the unnatural link detection in cognitive, in order to filter out the No-follow links you should just apply the No-Follow filter and work only on the Do-Follow links segment.<\/em><\/p>\n

    2. Why should I consider disavowing No-follow links?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

    Nothing confirmed here \u2026 only some rants \u2026<\/p>\n

    1. No-follow links are possibly transferring ranking juice in certain cases<\/a> and<\/a> there are also, some studies<\/a> that prove that.<\/p>\n

    2.Google doesn\u2019t always say the \u201ccorrect\u201d things. Negative SEO has been working for years, but the Google Guidelines denied it vehemently. Google changed their wording, a while ago, in order to reflect the possibility of someone else ability to affect your rankings.<\/p>\n

    3. What about \u201clink building\u201d campaigns that dilute the signals of naturalness using no-follow link acquisition.<\/p>\n

    I bet you are confused now. The question still remains:<\/p>\n

    Should I disavow No-follow Links?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

    The safe\u2019s bet, would be\u00a0 to follow Google\u2019s Approved tip<\/strong> and disavow only do-follow links. If a domain is sending both do-follow and no-follow unnatural links, just ask for a full domain disavow there.<\/p>\n

    People have reported successful recovery stories on both the cases so I think you aren\u2019t risking anything.<\/p>\n

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    What’s your opinion on this “confusing” subject?<\/p>\n

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    After our unnatural link detection\u00a0launch last week, a lot of people asked if they should disavow NO-FOLLOW links. The short answer is that there is no exact answer on this. There are 2 major, contradictory, opinions on this: No. You shouldn\u2019t disavow No-follow links, as Google says it doesn\u2019t pass any ranking juice to them. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34,81,103],"class_list":["post-3124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seo","tag-google-disavow-tool","tag-unnatural-links","tag-unnatural-links-detection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}