Significance of (no follow) on inbound link reports on Open Site explorer

[wianno168]

I have a new website. Several of my inbound links report on open site explorer have (no follow) next to them. I assune this is not optimal-why does it happen?

Brooke

[Travis_Bailey]

You do want some links that are followed, but getting no follow links is almost unavoidable. You get a no follow link when someone appends rel=nofollow to the a href link pointing at your site. It's not entirely bad, as you may get some citation value from the nofollow link.

In regard to citation value, if people are talking about your site - that's still a good thing. It can be even better if the link is non-nofollow.

People append nofollow to the link in the hopes that they won't be seen as a black hat reciprocal link, or something worse. It's basically the safest way to link out, as linking to things that are - or could be - bad is terribly unhealthy.

Hopefully that makes sense.

[wianno168]

Thank you