Thread: Nofollow tags on Yelp? Tweet

I noticed that my paid listings/ads on Yelp are nofollows. Is this becoming more common on these types of sites? I can understand it for non-paid links, but it seems wrong for advertisers. If you're familiar with Yelp this is nothing like text link ads.

I am not familiar with yelp.

this is the first time i heard about Yelp.

Originally Posted by Eduardo

I noticed that my paid listings/ads on Yelp are nofollows. Is this becoming more common on these types of sites? I can understand it for non-paid links, but it seems wrong for advertisers. If you're familiar with Yelp this is nothing like text link ads.

I've never tried yelp...since it is a no follow then it would not past any link juice to the advertiser..in Adwords though it has a follow attribute but in every query of the user the resulting page is unranked so still it does not pass any weight. I think advertising/paid listings for such ads don't pass any link value merely it only drives traffic to your site. Here is a good comparison between Yelp and Adwords: http://gawker.com/tech/search/google...ets-286495.php

there is nothing extraordinary in it. Every popular websites add no follow attributes for keeping intact its PR.

this is the first time i heard about yelp.

Right, nofollow is used more pop in those pop sites.
But is it a good way to keep so-called PR, still under evaluating.

Originally Posted by Eduardo

I noticed that my paid listings/ads on Yelp are nofollows. Is this becoming more common on these types of sites? I can understand it for non-paid links, but it seems wrong for advertisers. If you're familiar with Yelp this is nothing like text link ads.

What you mean nothing like text link ads? You want text links in a paid review/post. Hows that different from a text link ad in site's content? Nofollow is only a problem if you're placing the ad to boost your ranking in the SERPs, which is exactly what text link ads were all about.

The way it works is you add a place to the site by searching for it in the database, selecting it and then commenting about it. At your option the comments are sent to your Twitter and Facebook profiles with links back to the PlacePop profile page.

People , nofollow doesn't mean don't count ... it doesn't pass PR , but a back link coming from a high authority source with the proper anchor passes many other things and helps in the engines .