Backlinks: Dofollow vs Nofollow

[Rosemary Xanders]

Hi, I have a quick question about backlinks. I understand how backlinks' strength are determined by a site's DA, placement of backlink, dofollow vs nofollow, etc.. But are specific categories also stronger because of their categories?

For example, are editorial backlinks stronger because they ARE editorial backlinks or because they adhere better to criteria I just spelled out (in the body of the site, often near the top)? Same thing with comment backlinks? Are they weak because they're comment backlinks or because they're near the bottom of a page and often have to share outbound backlink juice with tons of other comment backlinks?

Thanks!

[not2easy]

There are several outdated ideas in your question that make a straight answer difficult. If you post a link to your site, that is not what Google considers to be a backlink, it is not beneficial to the ranking of your site in any way and could work against your site's ranking. It is viewed as UGC which is not useful for ranking since maybe 2003 and it is not because of "dofollow" which does not exist or "nofollow" which Google has said they will decide whether to follow or not.

Self created links have no more value than the amount of humans that might possibly discover your site by seeing your link IF the site where you posted it allows people to post links. Self created comment backlinks are not the same thing as backlinks.

To help you see the difference and learn some better methods, it might help to read up on current ideas. Here is a short reading list that I hope might help:
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