Would You Buy a Link With a NoFollow Attribute?
A DigitalPoint Forums thread asks members if they would consider buying a link that has a nofollow attribute appended to it. For those who don't know what the nofollow attribute is a snippet of code added to the html of the link, so a search engine can easily detect if they should follow the link (in terms of link popularity and even actually following the link physically). It looks something like this:
<a href="http://www.site.com/page.html" rel="nofollow">Visit My Page</a>
In any event, the thread asks if you would buy such a link. I know people do, cause some of my advertisers buy them from me. But would you buy such a link? I know it depends, depends on if the link is on a high trafficked site, or in a prime location, and so on. But let's pretend the link is on a site like this or a site like Search Engine Land, would you buy a link from those types of sites, if it was nofollowed?
Here is the poll (try not to use the "other" option):
Forum discussion at DigitalPoint Forums.
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rustybrick in Link Building at May 27, 2008 5:55 AM
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Of course... that is the purpose of a paid link, isn't it? The traffic that the link produces, not some additional value that the search engines pass like PageRank and the like.
Posted by Stephen Pitts at May 27, 2008 07:29