[Minuteman Press]

I was at a marketing conference this morning - is it true that links to a website listed in a blog always count as backlinks? I'm not an expert on this subject (as you can tell!) so be gentle.

Peter

[Boss Hog]

Yes as far as I know.

[JohnRoss]

Originally Posted by Minuteman Press

I was at a marketing conference this morning - is it true that links to a website listed in a blog always count as backlinks? I'm not an expert on this subject (as you can tell!) so be gentle.

Peter

I don't uinderstand the significance of the website in question being listed in a blog, but all links to a web page are called backlinks. "Back" here only means "to" or "in" (so "backlinks" is the opposite of "outbound" links), it doesn't have to be reciprocal.

[theGicleeService]

Depends on the link type.

dofollow - yes

nofollow - no

Wordpress blogs are setup with nofollow.

It is still a link but it will not pass page rank or link juice.

[Minuteman Press]

That's handy. Thanks theGiclee / Boss.