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The webmaster does not mind putting rel=nofollow tags on the other links on his site (more link juice for me!)
If there are 19 nofollow's and 1 "follow", will that look unnatural? Will this trigger a paid link flag?
Links are either follow or nofollow; Google will treat them accordingly.
That does not mean a paid-for link will not be spotted; if you have the same link on every page, and / or the same anchor text on every site you buy links from, then google will have no problem identifying your program.
But the follow/nofollow is not an issue.
Yes.
Why would I have 19 nofollow and one without?
Why would I have 19 nofollow and one without?
according to MC, to demonstrate the other 19 are paid ads and the one the OP bought is the natural one the link seller really wants to link to.
hey, OP! thanks for the cool idea! just need to add 10% to my link budget to bribe link sellers to add no follow tag to my competitors' links :P
No, it will not look unnatural to Google (which I thought was the question)
Yes, it could well look unnatural to a human being with a nofollow displayer.
Don't panic - just never forget that Google Does Not Like Paid For Links ;)
The fact that the engines hate paid links is a given. If their algo suspects a paid link, the link does not count as a vote.
A few questions:
Why would someone overuse a tag designed solely for the engines, if the webmaster's goal is to divert link juice to 1 page? Does this not look suspicious?
Agree, Disagree, Perhaps?
no follow tag was created to tell robots not to follow the links.
google tries to force us to use it if we sell/buy links.
i see nothing wrong about a page that has almost all links on it sponsored. this page makes me money.
just like google do not see anything wrong with MFAs. They do make them money, too.
Why would someone overuse a tag designed solely for the engines, if the webmaster's goal is to divert link juice to 1 page? Does this not look suspicious?
Suspicious to who? Who cares?
If you are doing something wrong, worry about that and its consequences.
If you are doing nothing wrong, then you have no need to worry.
My question is: Will the algos consider overuse of the nofollow tag as a method for detecting a paid link, stripping its ability to pass juice?
Nobody here could answer your question, since nobody here would know what excatly goes into determining the PR and in what proportions - never mind the great details as - "no-follow" links, "paid" links (or if they determine that at all), or the ratios of different types of links on the page...
To take it futher, it's hard to tell about the weight of "no-follow" links from experince on other sites - since there are some many more "powerful" factors that effect the rankings and the PR. So if something goes up or down it maybe because of different ratio of links on the page or it maybe because of hundereds of other factors... nobody knows... I bet $1 people at google don't know themselves... :c)
My question is: Will the algos consider overuse of the nofollow tag as a method for detecting a paid link, stripping its ability to pass juice?
You know, the G algo isn't some sort of artificial intelligence, it's a bumbling mechanical idiot. It's not nearly as sophisticated as some make it out to be. G can't even deal with spammers picking up recently expired domains and doing redirects - you think it's going to spot that? Don't sweat it, man.
