2,684,109
You may see 100+ rel = nofollow in a typical AR blog post.
Many of these are internal links such as "Like" "Report" "Delete". The rel = no follow is directing search engines not to pay any attention to those links.
To see how many "no follows" are in your post or page, or if you are concerned that a link to your website or page is no follow,
Right click > View Page Source
Control F > type in nofollow
Peter Mark or Tammy Emineth or Katerina Gasset may be able to give you a comprehensive explanation of do follow vs. no follow
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
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Mary Yonkers
Erie, PA
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Candice A. Donofrio
Fort Mohave, AZ
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Barbara Todaro
Franklin, MA
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Lyn Sims
Schaumburg, IL
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Evelina Tsigelnitskaya
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
5,049,477
Well that's beyond what I know. Perhaps Katerina Gasset can weigh in and educate us. Or maybe Tammy Emineth
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
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Mary Yonkers
Erie, PA
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Carol Williams
Wenatchee, WA
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
1,503,018
All links are considered "DoFollow" by default. Putting the "NoFollow" just means that Google is less likely to pass the authority of the site doing the linking to the site being linked to. Both are necessary for a healthy link profile. There is some anecdotal evidence that even nofollow links from sites like WikiPedia pass the "link juice."
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
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Mary Yonkers
Erie, PA
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Candice A. Donofrio
Fort Mohave, AZ
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Ryan Huggins - Thousan...
Thousand Oaks, CA
6,393,609
I am glad that we have other people here to worry about this type of thing.
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
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Mary Yonkers
Erie, PA
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Anthony Acosta - ALLAT...
Atlanta, GA
5,230,148
This is a great question for Peter Mark.
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
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Mary Yonkers
Erie, PA
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Carol Williams
Wenatchee, WA
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Anthony Acosta - ALLAT...
Atlanta, GA
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Valeria Mola
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
5,217,381
Fred Griffin at it again. And, thank goodness because way above my paygrade!
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Fred Griffin Florida R...
Tallahassee, FL
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Mary Yonkers
Erie, PA
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
1,844,301
Oh hell ... the question makes my head hurt. Peter Mark answers here.
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Mary Yonkers
Erie, PA
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Candice A. Donofrio
Fort Mohave, AZ
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Fred Griffin Florida R...
Tallahassee, FL
5,104,931
I wish I knew what you were talking about.
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Mary Yonkers
Erie, PA
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Carol Williams
Wenatchee, WA
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Lyn Sims
Schaumburg, IL
2,071,025
Interesting, with this question I've learned something new. Thank you.
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Mary Yonkers
Erie, PA
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Valeria Mola
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
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Fred Griffin Florida R...
Tallahassee, FL
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
1,239,901
The classic getting higher relevance on any search engine is to create links allowing for more interactions between your blog and other "credible sources". In fact, Alexa used to be the site looking for analytics some years ago. The rules constantly change. If you talk to those SEO gurus who want $80-100 an hour to enhance searchability, they emphasize backlinks and show you the amount of improvements.
As far as suggestions to get AR a better place finding you. I have not seen or heard any thing from the management vowed they will enhance searchability for almost 2 years. Google today does not even post more read blogs or even G+ does not display any blogs linmked anymore. Before it listed 3 blogs for each rainmaker. I searched several top rainmakers, ambassadors etc and found I can not find their blogs either.
As for the internal hits, friend or unfriend it lies with AR.
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
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Mary Yonkers
Erie, PA
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Fred Griffin Florida R...
Tallahassee, FL
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Evelina Tsigelnitskaya
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
4,572,489
This is a question I have never pondered. I guess I am not that curious to ever ponder. Thankfully there are quite a few people who take an interest in such things.
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Mary Yonkers
Erie, PA
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
3,345,211
I was going to tag Peter Mark to respond. I see that he already has. Listen to him ... he knows. He truly knows. He just does not say he knows ... or pretend to know.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Mary Yonkers
Erie, PA
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
5,583,278
great information and explanation from Fred Griffin ...thanks Fred....
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Fred Griffin Florida R...
Tallahassee, FL
2,220,654
I agree.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Mary Yonkers
Erie, PA
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Anthony Acosta - ALLAT...
Atlanta, GA
1,543,853
HUH?
Kidding...
I agree, we should be.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Mary Yonkers
Erie, PA
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Anthony Acosta - ALLAT...
Atlanta, GA
735,052
Buzzing the tower on this one.
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Mary Yonkers
Erie, PA
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
7,836,431
This is above my level of knowledge.
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Mary Yonkers
Erie, PA
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
3,986,258
This is a question for someone with a higher pay grade
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Mary Yonkers
Erie, PA
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
3,043,274
ActiveRain is a do follow link. I am not sure where you are discovering that it is isn't.
Fred Griffin shows you how to check your no follows in your source.
But even it AR was a no follow link- it would still be an authoritative and important link to have pointing to your website.
No follow links from authoritative sites are just as important as follow links.
Google is looking for 'natural' flow of links.
So it would look SUPER unatural for your link profile to be all follow links and zero no follow links. Unatural will be a red flag to Google's algorithm.
Because it is natural for anyone to have both kinds of links.
You can also see how fast a spammer jumped on this post to try to get a link :) hehehe:
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Ron Tissier
Atlanta, GA
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Fred Griffin Florida R...
Tallahassee, FL
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
5,772,575
Dave,
This is way beyond my knowledge or interest for that matter...Our concern with our clients is to make sure they have the strategy to be market leaders...bottom line mentality. Not our expertise...I am sure many know the answer. A
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Mary Yonkers
Erie, PA
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
1,598,452
Great question and excellent answers.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Mary Yonkers
Erie, PA
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Valeria Mola
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
2,178,703
If I had any idea what any of this meant, I would tell you. But, I don't.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Mary Yonkers
Erie, PA
3,071,489
Parked and reading...
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Mary Yonkers
Erie, PA
482,547
WOW! Great question and some great answers, too. Still it's something I'll leave to experts to understand for me.
Bruce
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Mary Yonkers
Erie, PA
4,800,082
I'm parked and reading.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Mary Yonkers
Erie, PA
4,434,127
4,319,419
Dave Martin (703) 585-4687 - good answer here - specially from Fred Griffin
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Fred Griffin Florida R...
Tallahassee, FL
1,231,853
1,052,321
Thank you Peter! Great answer and pretty easy for us all to understand. I know who needs to know what I don't, and thankfully they take care of me.
I'm like Donna on Suits. My brain is already too busy being awesome! LOL 😎💅💋
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
2,182,552
2,817,671
5,868,565