Question About Something Eli Said In An Interview

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I was reading the interview Aaron Wall did with Eli on SEO Book:
Interview of Eli from Blue Hat SEO.com : SEO Book.com

Something he said in the interview stood out to me.

AARON: Have you ever felt a search engineer was lying about something? If so, have you ever called them out on it?
ELI: I think we're being lied to about nofollow. Consider this the call out :)

What do you think he meant by that?
 


I feel like if my brain had been rubbed... water.... soap.... rubbing... some sort of rinsing... can't quite put my finger on it...owwwww
 
So, you guys really think that any link from any page that has the nofollow tag such as most blogs, forums, wikis, etc. carry as much link weight as any other "normal" link?

Have you seen this from your own experiences?
 
Well Here's my sad story: On one of my sites, I paid someone to do directory link submissions right? I was just wanted to see if that kind of thing work. Granted, I only got about 156 submitted requests , not like it was a couple of thousand or anything. Still you would think I would get at least one back link right? Not one. Now at the same time I decided to do one of my own (yes just one) link submission on a blog that wrote about how 'no follows is a joke' (much like eli was saying) and to do his part in the 'no follow blogger revolution' he would allow everyone to do a comment and link back to their blog/site.

To date, the only back link I have to that site is that no follow link. Granted, it's only been a month so maybe some of the others are just going to take take their sweet time showing up but I still think it says something about the google blog love and also the no follow crap.
 
kjb1891 said:
So, you guys really think that any link from any page that has the nofollow tag such as most blogs, forums, wikis, etc. carry as much link weight as any other "normal" link?

Have you seen this from your own experiences?
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Do not care for nofollow...............they are equally important. Look up on AW stats on your site and see what i'm saying

turbolapp said:
Well Here's my sad story: On one of my sites, I paid someone to do directory link submissions right? I was just wanted to see if that kind of thing work. Granted, I only got about 156 submitted requests , not like it was a couple of thousand or anything. Still you would think I would get at least one back link right? Not one. Now at the same time I decided to do one of my own (yes just one) link submission on a blog that wrote about how 'no follows is a joke' (much like eli was saying) and to do his part in the 'no follow blogger revolution' he would allow everyone to do a comment and link back to their blog/site.

To date, the only back link I have to that site is that no follow link. Granted, it's only been a month so maybe some of the others are just going to take take their sweet time showing up but I still think it says something about the google blog love and also the no follow crap.
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Directory submissions link will show up if directories are indexed and that category i which it was submitted is also indexed quickly. Also just by submissions you will not get great results..Need to do something extra....

I have a suggestion for you. Use pingomatic and ping the links in the report you received (hopefully) and help your self and get the links indexed faster..Also...it again depends on which directories they were submitted in.

If your having any confusion..hit me on AIM.

MDSandB
 
ya right.

My guess would be that "nofollow" links do have an impact on how a certain search engine displays them as in "you have X numbers of links". This must not mean they are not used to a) feed the crawlers or b) calculated internally. Actually, that would be quite a foolish thing to do. a) Always feed your crawlers with all you got. Even if you are slurping spam, you have a good chance to discover a whole area or network of spam you can blacklist, demote, etc.. b) One example: Wikipedia is nofollow. So... we find a site that is linked 5 times on popular wikipedia articles. Does that mean the search engine will NOT take that into account? As Eli said ... smoke and mirrors. ::emp::
 
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