https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42594
--- Comment #16 from Nathan Larson <[email protected]> --- The SEO people seem to think that a mix of dofollow and nofollow is best. The implication, then, is that it might not bring in that much more spam if the nofollow ratio goes down, since they are going to try to spam either way: http://trafficplanet.com/topic/3266-do-follow-vs-no-follow-wikis/ *"Mix of dofollows and nofollows should look natural to the eyes of google.." *"His point is right,by mixing both types of links we send strong message to google that the links are natural and whether it is do-follow or no-follow it will surely add up some value .No-follow links dont bring much pr value but it can at least bring some traffic to the blog." *"I think combination of both Do follow and No follow is a better option. There is less risk if we send the signal that we are trying to make natural things by doing both Do follow and No follow." *"I think the 'link is a link is a link' line of thought it was the right one when it comes to wiki's. It's not as though they're really difficult to obtain or anything like that, so go for them all. DoFollow are obviously going to be more valuable than NoFollow, but that's not to say there is no benefit of getting NoFollow ones." *"You will want a mixture of both to give the look of a natural backlink profile" *"I've used a mixture of do-follow and no-follows.. always work well.. but more anchortext variation is more important in this area..." *"Search engine give more priority to do-follow back-links it doesn't mean they don't recognize no-follow link. No-follow back-links from relevant and high PR website can also help you to rank higher on Google and also on other search engines." *"So, having backlinks from different sources, both of dofollow and nofollow type would indicate no explicit effort from your end to force your way to the top of search engines..." *"Because normal website owners do not pay attention to whether or not a link is no-follow or not. The only people who pay attention are the seo crowd trying to game the system. This means that a normal non-seo website owner will naturally end up with a mix of both types of links. Therefor not having any no-follow links at all pointing to your site is not a natural pattern." *"I cant remember how much of the links on the web are nofollow, think it was like 5-10%. Could be off. If you want to look 'natural' you want to have a similar ratio." -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
