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Everyone said that no follow links has no benefit from google but i notice that some of my backlinks come from no follow links.

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Good observations from , , , and — the topic has changed since 2010 and that context matters.

In 2019 Google updated how it treats link attributes: rel="nofollow" is handled as a hint rather than an absolute block, and two new attributes were introduced, rel="sponsored" and rel="ugc", to better classify paid versus user-generated links. That change means some nofollow'd links can be used by Google for discovery or as a limited signal in ranking decisions, while editorial (natural) links still carry the strongest link equity. See Google's announcement for details: Evolving nofollow: new ways to identify the nature of links.

Practical takeaways: verify link markup by inspecting the page (check the rel value); treat nofollow/sponsored/ugc links as useful for referral traffic and visibility even if they are less likely to pass full link equity; measure real value with Search Console (Links report) and your analytics (referrals/conversions). If managing links, mark paid or UGC links correctly, avoid buying links or spammy schemes, and prioritize earning editorial links from relevant, authoritative sites.

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Everyone said that no follow links has no benefit from google but i notice that some of my backlinks come from no follow links.

Yep - i have noticed this as well. Rather a strange phenomenon. Goes to show that the SE's still might be counting those links for something. Maybe just as a simple citation?

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Yes, there are no benefits from nofollow links compare to dofollow links. But having nofollow links do not do any harm to your site, instead those are just counted as a vote to your site, that is it :)

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Google does follow and index nofollow links but does not pass any PR to the linking page.

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ya i also know that nofollow link is not useful for the site because its can't useful to get backlink. Is it true?
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