Comments on: Matt Cutts Acknowledges SEO 2.0 Tactic of Linking Out as Ranking Factor (Nofollow is Dead)

By: simon

simon — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:05:46 +0000

I would be interested to know your thoughts on how this theory is holding up in the latest round of changes over at google? It seems that google will reward as it always says good sites that take care of themselves and give out good info and have good content, these changes you explain would fit with that assumption
thanks for the great read btw

By: george@seotalk.gr

george@seotalk.gr — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:01:41 +0000

That’s a pretty interesting article

I will have to do my own tests now and see the results

Let’s see :)

By: TJ PowerPoker Review

TJ PowerPoker Review — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:52:09 +0000

Interesting article. Did not know that having quality outbound links would help with google page ranking.

By: Cristian

Cristian — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:17:13 +0000

Best post I’ve read in the past two weeks and best news this week!

I’m a true believer that sistematically linking out to other topic related website with dofollow links improves your website’s credibility in SE’s eyes.

Outbound links are avoided for two main reasons, namely:

1. fear of loosing pagerank;

2. fear of becoming an overnight depositar of a tone of reciprocal links due to signes of appreciation from the linked-to websites.

To further incline the balace in favor to dofollow outbound links, consider the fact that Google doesn’t assign much trust to websites that have a consistent portfolio of nofollow outbound links and, I my opinion, for good reason.

Recently I made a post on my blog where I present some of the benefits your site will enjoy from consistently linking out to related quality content resources in your niche market. For those interested, here’s the link:

http://trafficcpanel.com/892/outbound-linking-cashing-in-on-seo-tactics-that-others-fear/

Hope it enriches your SEO perspective!

Cheers,
Cristian

By: Tim Gregory

Tim Gregory — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:52:17 +0000

Very glad I discovered this site today – definately going into the bookmarks!
What I don’t understand is whether it’s better to have reciprocal links, or worse?
A reciprocal link implies that it might be a link exchange, right?

By: Steve of scrabblecheat.com

Steve of scrabblecheat.com — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:58:44 +0000

The smart people I talked to said link everywhere. First you look like a normal user and of course no follow will eventually die. I’ve noticed many blogs removing do follow in the last six months. This is the best news I have heard all year!

By: Search Engine Partner

Search Engine Partner — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:26:03 +0000

It’s good to see Google finally give credit where credit’s due. Thank you for referencing SEO 2.0

By: anon

anon — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:48:14 +0000

That’s true no follow is dead, but Mutt Cutt want blogger and webmasters to not set no follow tags

By: anon

anon — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:41:45 +0000

An excellent post, I never really considered linking out, I may add a few links to authority sites and see what happens :-)

By: Kyle Richey

Kyle Richey — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:50:23 +0000

This is such a heated topic right now, but I came across your post and it gave me some much needed clarity with the entire thing.

I’ve been analyzing links for months, finding that every backlink checker (including Yahoo! Site Explorer, Google’s link: command and Market Samurai) does indeed count links to my websites, even when they have the nofollow tag.

I had been curious about this for a long time, considering the way everyone described it’s nature (i.e. not passing PR), why this was happening.

Now, it all makes sense…

Thanks for the post!
Kyle