After much debate and discussions, Ben Fisher claims he has solid proof of noFollow helping in his website's ranking.
In the experiment, he wrote a review on the SpiderMan 3 game and mentioned it in various blogs which he linked back to the review site. What happened then was, his site was ranked number 1. Also, "piderMan 3" used as an anchor text contained a noFollow.
Reaction to the experiment has been varying with one user saying "This is interesting info" while another said "If Google knows "piderman 3" equals "spiderman 3" then it knows that pages containing "spiderman 3" are also relevant for query "piderman 3". This experiment isn't a good proof (although I think Google counts nofollow links). Ben Fisher says, his site does not mention piderman in the text nor in the code either.
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Good to know. I recently discovered that my personal website now has a page rank of 3 from posting on blogs only. There are virtually no other links to that site and there are only about 23 incoming links now. So, I am in first position on Google and MSN for my name! Wooo Hooo!
I will be adding additional content to that site soon with another similar test. I believe this site is one of my incoming links. I read often.
Thanks.
This is real hard to prove. It would seem to make sense, and since very few wish to take that risk I can understand that. I wonder how much of this is fear and how much is real?
We are an SEO provider so this is very important to our business. We have a large “Do Follow List on our blog, but the blog is “No Follow.”