Posting on Blogs - Follow vs NoFollow

[wexywexy]

I understand what Follow vs. NoFollow links but I'd like to get a little more detailed information as to whether I should be focusing on blogs that allow for FOLLOW or NOFOLLOW linking, or if it really matters? Does Bing and Google follow similar principles? Does juice flow in Google even if NoFollow might be on?

[admin]

Great question!

I wish there was an easy answer.

Since only the engineers in charge of assesing quality of links for Google know for sure - we're just guessing what happens when Google sees a link has the "nofollow" attribute attached.

Me personally - I will not go out of my way to get a link if it is nofollow - I won't pass up the link - but my guess is it counts for very little if anything if Google sees the nofollow attribute.

Now - we should remember that in the real world that successful web sites have all kinds of links - some of them are surely nofollow - so my guess is it's quite normal to have some of your links be nofollow. We do want to be NORMAL!

NOW if they see TOO MANY links are nofollow I bet they will PENALIZE the site getting the links because it is very likely they are doing some kind of comment spam linking.

As far as Bing goes - I bet they ignore the nofollow - but who cares about Bing?