I use “follow” on all my links.

If you think having “nofollow” on “every” link is good, that might be true.

But think about it this way.

I did an experiment where I made a social networking site with no “outside” links.

Basically, “nofollow” on anything that goes out.

Although that site picked up PR3 right away, the number of google search terms and traffic was way lower in comparison to a similar social networking site that had “follow” links.

So, if you have nofollow link on ALL your outgoing links, Google will think you have no outgoing links and also think that your site is worthless because all you do is talk about yourself.

I think the best way to attack PR is actually not try to reverse-engineer Google’s algorithm but write interesting content that many people will link to you.

That is how I usually do it, I don’t know if that works but you are not simply trying to “game” Google.

Google’s algorithm is always changing so the results only find the newest interesting content.

As long as you have newest interesting content, your PR might be low, but you will get a lot of traffic from Google.

PR really means nothing anymore. Google traffic is what matters the most. For example, Zedomax.com is PR4 yet gets about 4,000 visitors from Google everyday.

You look at some other PR6, PR5, and PR4 sites and their traffic rank is like zero.

PR only means something if you have some traffic to work with. With no traffic, “nofollow” and “follow” are pretty much worthless except it may help you game Google to get a slightly higher PR than you should.

And when linking to higher PR sites, do you use a “nofollow” tag or dofollow ?

Regards

http://ezrichproject.blogspot.com