No Follow Metatags and SEO Effect

[humbleworld]

This is a general issue.

Usually in certain websites, they provide comment link where you can place your name, email and website url. I found just lately that  your url in your comment has a rel="nofollow" in the viewable code of the site.

Does it mean that if you comment on this blog with your url, that won't give a plus to your Search Engine Optimization effort?

[karlbenson]

indeed, any links with rel="nofollow" will not give any pagerank.
Although it doesn't mean don't follow this link, it just means, don't give any weight to it.

So in that sense it a waste of time posting any links where links are rel="nofollow" unless you expect to get alot of clicks/traffic from humans from it.

[humbleworld]

Karl, thank you for your clarification. I've wasted my time in those Wordpress blogs.

[humbleworld]

Karl, how about in SMF sites, does it have a default code that gives a nofollow tag to url?

[karlbenson]

rel="nofollow" is NOT added to ANY links in smf by default.

I have created mods which do that though.

Although are you talking about    <meta name="robots" content="noindex" /> which is a totally different matter.

[humbleworld]

Thanks Karl. Great insight for today.