Follow And No Follow Links

[ravensoft]

Do follow and no follow links affect my ranking ?

[dowson12345]

Only dofollow links affect your ranking, but nofollow can give you some traffic.

[DanielW]

No follow links will not affect your ranking adversely but, the search engines give you credit for do follow links

[SanWay]

Hi, it is interesting for me why some forums decided to become nofollow...because of spam? but if the modereator works good there is no spam on the forum...so can somebody explain me that?

[LucyOnline]

Do follow is generally better for SEO efforts, but it really depends on what your purposes are.

[tradeshowdesign]

No follow links discourage people from posting simply to insert a link to their own page.

[jaairey]

Originally Posted by tradeshowdesign

No follow links discourage people from posting simply to insert a link to their own page.

Certainly true.

However....

All my sites are dofollow. Sure I get lots of spam (and delete the obvious spam - my favorite "I am being held by the Russian mafia and they will kill me if you don't allow this comment" - on the humanitarian level tempting but I got more than 20 of them from different "people") I do get some great comments. Do I really care if some people are abusing my sites? No. If I don't give dofollow backlinks why should I expect anybody else to do so?