Beware No Follow Links In Article Directories
Just a quick heads up if you are submitting articles to article directories for SEO purposes. It is worth checking out whether or not they apply a nofollow tag to all outgoing links. One site, as of today, is Searchwarp.com. All the anchor text links in their articles are nofollow.
Waste of time submitting. Good for their PR but no link love for us honeys!
To check for nofollows either View Source or get the SEO Bar addon for FireFox.
Ade
very helpful, as is much of this site’s advice
Makes you wonder doesn’t it?
Thanks for the heads up on the article directories! We are actually testing the no-follow tags true behaviour using the method described in the page which this comment is linked to. It should only be a matter of weeks before we see some results.
Don’t forget that 100′s of webmasters use article directories to find content for their own websites and these are often dofollow – futhermore there is direct traffic from the readers of your articles.
Its not all about links if your content is well written then article directories are still very valuable.
There are some other article directories that use nofollow links. The main one is Articles Base.
However, I think that even though you don’t get any SEO benefit from articles placed there, it’s still worth it because the site gets huge traffic, and your articles rank highly in search engines. So you definitely get clicks coming in.