Google’s John Mueller mentioned on Reddit that any search engine optimization or search rating points your website has wouldn’t be associated to any form of ratio between comply with to nofollow hyperlinks in your website. John mentioned it’s simply not a factor and never the reason for any rating points.
John mentioned “Any downside your website has wouldn’t be because of the ratio of comply with to nofollow hyperlinks. That is simply not a factor.”
This isn’t the primary time John needed to say this, he mentioned it in 2020 squashed this comparable fable earlier than.
The individual John responded to wrote:
The location’s pages have been getting deindexed by the hour.
I checked every thing. The one factor that stands out is the 75:25 ratio of dofollow and nofollow hyperlinks. The dofollow hyperlinks appeared in March (most of them are from 2-5 domains) and some days later the rankings & visitors tanked.
Possibly I ought to simply flip a coin and see what occurs.
It appears like his thoughts is made up however it’s sort of attention-grabbing to see somebody give attention to comply with vs nofollow hyperlinks and never the content material of the general website. However I assume SEOs be SEOs?
Discussion board dialogue at Reddit.
