Do NoFollow links count at all?

[dan.backowski]

Does anyone really know whether or not links with rel=nofollow provide any value for link building at all?

Thanks in advance!

[TextMarketing]

Clarkie6,

There is no solid statement from the search engines that proves that nofollow links do provide SEO value. There is evidence, however, that shows that having a certain percentage of your backlinks as nofollow helps with rankings.

If you think about it, right now, spammers don't spend time with nofollow links as the officially don't pass any value. So the people that do have nofollow links must be generating content and partaking in real discussion.

Bottom line...They probably don't care as much weight but that must certainly carry some.

Hope this helps!

[mememax]

They should not pass any ranking value, definitely not any anchor text value at all but it may depend. IMO if a link is passing human traffic to your site, this link may be related to your website and give to google some useful information.

remember that google actually sees that link the nofollow just tells him to not pass juice. If your choice is to not have any link at all got the nofolowed one, but always be selective on the sites pointing to you. You don't want any bad neighbour not even nofollowed

[Jeepster]

Bottom line...They probably don't care as much weight but that must certainly carry some.

To echo TextMarketing, my hunch is that no-follow editorial links from high-authority sites such as Wikipedia are a sign of trustworthiness.