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Today’s question comes from ed in the Caribbean heads into somewhat bad mood because he asks:
How can linking remain a major part have a search algorithm when the majority of Internet users are unable to post a ‘followed’ link on the World Wide Web? For example Twitter Facebook Wikipedia are all ‘nofollow’. It seems only a very small percentage of links count.
Let me start with the second point which is the only a small percentage links count.
If you actually look at the volume up links on the web and then look at the person into those links that have the “No follow” attribute it turns out that’s a very small percentage.
I know that the perception is that whenever you try and get links they’re all no followed and you can’t get them and so that makes a lot of people come because they want to get as many links and they want to be followed links.
But the fact is if you look at the internet almost like a pie chart or a bar chart.The number of links that have the No follow attributes is still very very small compared with the total pool of links on the web.
So how can we can remain a part of a major search algorithm when the majority internet users are unable to post a followed link. My answer to that is that anyone can post a followed link if they make their own website.
So the trick is make your own website and make something so compelling so interesting that people want to link your site and typically whenever people want a link to your site the link with a link that has followed .
For example all the people who blog about things all the people who write about stuff online a lot of those links actually in the content of blogs or in the content news stories do flow page rank and the so those are editorial decisions made on the basis of merit.
So if you make something that’s really really great you’ll find there’s not that hard to get links to do have the follower do not have the No follow attribute.
So I know that some other common places a lot of people hang out might have no following that might feel a little discouraging, but bear in mind that that’s only some other web, it turns out there’s a lot of the web which does have the Follow attribute or that does pass page rank and you can definitely get links if you end up making something really excellent.
A lot of people want to know about a lot of people want to tell their friends about.
Quick Answer: Interesting content gets followed links