(Entry was posted by albert mora on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 10/20/2013).

What`s the value of a "nofollow" link for SEO purposes?

What`s the value of a "nofollow" link? (for SEO purposes)

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Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

albert mora: What's the value of a "nofollow" link? (for SEO purposes)
Leon Bailey: Doesn't give away link juice (page rank purposes). I believe so!
Sasch Mayer: If you're still assessing the value of a link based solely on SEO, you're doing it wrong...
Manisha Thakur: How is it beneficial then?? If at all it is??
Simon Fryer: +albert mora ;We know it doesn't pass 'PageRank', but links still indicate other things (such as trust). I have no empirical evidence, but I'd say that getting nofollow links from the top 10 academic institutions in the world would do something very tasty to your SEO.

+Sasch Mayer ;is right though. If you're building a nofollow link, it had better be for clicks or exposure, or you're probably wasting your time. ;
Aarzu Khan: No follow link is given to those sites which you don't want to be crawled by Google. ;
Sasch Mayer: Yeah, we're done here... apart from +Simon Fryer