: Dofollow or Nofollow trackbacks? Thinking about SEO, is it better that they are dofollow trackback or nofollow trackbacks? When I write a post on my blog, I automatically send trackback to my

@Hamm4606531

I think a best title for this question would be:

Do Trackbacks and Pingbacks matter when it comes to SEO?

By sending a trackback, you are creating a backlink to your blog, which takes a very small amount of time to do when considering the benefits of it.


“A trackback is a super comment. The way that a trackback works, is instead of a going to a blog and posting a comment on someone else’s blog, you post a reply on your own website and post a trackback comment. Unless they don’t allow follows, but you still establish authority” - Mattew Bredel


For your purposes of building blogger to blogger relationships, trackbacks and pingbacks are both great ways to establish a site’s presence inside a blog community, and as a bonus, you are inadvertently getting backlinks that will only help you (if they are of quality and not from red flagged sites).

My personal opinion:

I see trackback more as a way of establishing blogger to blogger relationship rather than building backlinks. After all, it just another way of reciprocal link.

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@Annie201

Ernesto there is no link type of dofollow, and nofollow is not really a w3 standard. Search engines have agreed to recognize it as a link not to count towards your search positions. It doesn't mean they won't crawl and index it though.

If you want to increase your page rank any good quality standard href link on a relevant page linking to your page will help with enough links. The page linking to you should be at the least cached by Google and the higher the PR of the page linking to you the better. Your links should be above the fold and contextual when possible.

If a link does not contain `rel="nofollow" then by default Google and others will count it towards your overall incoming links.

According to w3 standards though when there are two duplicate attributes in an a tag the first one takes precedence. So it may be possible that if a link forces rel="nofollow" and you are able to add any other rel="" attribute before it in the source that it may override the nofollow. That's an assumption and I don't know how Google would treat that.

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