40% Of SEOs Do Not Nofollow External Links

[usedcarforsale]

A few months ago we shared the poll results showing 50% nofollow their internal links for PageRank flow. So a month ago, I posted a poll asking how many people nofollow external links.

Nofollowing external links is thought to be a way of "hoarding" your PageRank or just being very careful with who you link to. So we asked in our poll the percentage of links nofollowed on your sites, on average.

We had 208 responses and 40% said they don't nofollow any of their external links. Here is the break down:

40% said Non Of My External Links NoFollowed
20% said only 25% Of External Links NoFollowed
15% said 50% Of Of External Links NoFollowed
13% said 75%+ Of External Links NoFollowed
8% said 100% Of External Links NoFollowed
There were some "other answers."

Are you surprised by any of these results?

Forum discussion continued at WebmasterWorld.

[eyanharve]

my opinion is non of my external links nofollowed.

[flyingstone88]

Thank you very much for the information....

[robinjackman]

i am agree with 40% people votes and thanks for sharing opinion.

[PureBlue]

we have just no follow on our external links and are awaiting the results for our seo campaign

[resiymarko]

We have just no follow on our outer links and are pending the results for our seo campaign

[fansi099]

so r they do follow or no follow ? confused .....

[Ancient]

They are not nofollow as I understood ))

[iresh]

40% said Non Of My External Links NoFollowed
20% said only 25% Of External Links NoFollowed
15% said 50% Of Of External Links NoFollowed
13% said 75%+ Of External Links NoFollowed
8% said 100% Of External Links NoFollowed

for me i go for the 25% Of External Links NoFollowed

[Sukhdeepak]

I think follow links are good then no follow links. Because search engines do not give any weight age to no follow links. They can only give you clicks.

[hosted]

Originally Posted by Sukhdeepak

I think follow links are good then no follow links. Because search engines do not give any weight age to no follow links. They can only give you clicks.

This is also not bad, traffic from high PR sites is good

[bermuda]

It was once an assumption that the more outgoing links on websites the lower their PR would be but in reality we do not see such a thing as there are a lot of do follow forums and blogs with thousands of outgoing links and yet their original PR scores have remained untouched and still very strong.

[SamDermot]

For a good link building campaign there should be combination of both dofollow and nofollow then it would be natural back links.

[Faulkner]

Originally Posted by SamDermot

For a good link building campaign there should be combination of both dofollow and nofollow then it would be natural back links.

Why do you think so? I believe that its not needed

[pappukumar]

Hi,

yeah we can say that is helpful information but i cant see my do-follow link as no-follow.

[sbglobal]

Originally Posted by usedcarforsale

A few months ago we shared the poll results showing 50% nofollow their internal links for PageRank flow. So a month ago, I posted a poll asking how many people nofollow external links.

Nofollowing external links is thought to be a way of "hoarding" your PageRank or just being very careful with who you link to. So we asked in our poll the percentage of links nofollowed on your sites, on average.

We had 208 responses and 40% said they don't nofollow any of their external links. Here is the break down:

40% said Non Of My External Links NoFollowed
20% said only 25% Of External Links NoFollowed
15% said 50% Of Of External Links NoFollowed
13% said 75%+ Of External Links NoFollowed
8% said 100% Of External Links NoFollowed
There were some "other answers."

Are you surprised by any of these results?

Forum discussion continued at WebmasterWorld.

we are agree about that I believe that its not needed