Are Non Followed links good or bad for my website?
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I have 3,000 followed links and a 1,000 non followed links. The non followed links are from an advertising campaign. Do these hurt or help me?
Thanks
Ron
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Hi Ron,
Just to reiterate Keith's response... The NoFollow links won't harm nor help your rankings! But like keith said it is important to have a diverse and natural link portfolio both in terms of follow/nofollow and anchor text.
Had your advertising campaign used followed, links you may have had a problem as Google could view these as paid links.
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Any links are helpful, and for many reasons. No-Follow links help to diversify your link portfolio, if all links were followed, it would look strange to the search engines. Having a good mix is more "natural".
Same goes for getting too many links all at once, doesn't look natural.
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