Do Nofollow Links Count?

[Richie_Ni]

Have a article to share with you guys...
Do Nofollow Links Count? (http://www.linkbuildingblog.com/2007/05/do_nofollow_lin.html)

Personally I've seen links with "nofollow" attribute's were countered as backlinks in yahoo,what do you guys think?

[330td]

Im in the same case, but i think google doesn't follow them instead of yahoo, and maybe MSN :confused:

[egdcltd]

I think 'nofollow' is a specific command for Google.

[trichnosis]

nofollow means nothink on yahoo and msn search. isnt it a special comment on google algo.?

[danielro]

No it is not just a special comment on google algo, its a new standard that should get picked up by most search engines. Google is currently using it.

[buxr]

Google definitely follows these links whether or not it has the nofollow attribute. Whether it passes pagerank is another story.

[jammy]

They do not count as far as an increase in your PR or technorati rank is concerned.

[Richie_Ni]

I think 'nofollow' is a specific command for Google.
Umm,I guess you are right.

[lenz]

I have a hypothesis, that even nofollowed links still DO count even in Google. No SE can rely on webmaster-added metadata.

[SupaSharp]

'nofollow' still count as good backlinks

[Michael]

Have a read of this rel=”nofollow” Google, Yahoo and MSN (http://www.seo-blog.com/rel-nofollow.php)

- Michael

[330td]

Thanks for the link, it's really interesting ;)

[o3e]

nofollow was developed by Google against the spammers

[Alan Murray]

No follow links do not count in Google. They do show up in yahoo link command but there are not counted.

[Richie_Ni]

No follow links do not count in Google. They do show up in yahoo link command but there are not counted.
I think they are counted as backlinks in Yahoo.

[littlebobek]

Google definitely follows these links whether or not it has the nofollow attribute. Whether it passes pagerank is another story.

Agree. And still, even 'nofollow' links will help you to get direct traffic to your website.

[EstebanC]

From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel="nofollow") on hyperlinks, those links won't get any credit when we rank websites in our search results. This isn't a negative vote for the site where the comment was posted; it's just a way to make sure that spammers get no benefit from abusing public areas like blog comments, trackbacks, and referrer lists.

Source: http:// googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html

In january 2005 Google implemented the "nofollow" attribute.

[Freewebspace]

We have to test it to see whether Google follows no follow or not!


thats the only way to find out!

[banless]

Google will follow the links, but there is no pr benifit from it from what I can tell. I believe this is main reason why google put this tag into play, to stop people from gaining pr from they should not be getting it. Just a theroy of course.

[catyack]

I agree, they will follow but no pr value for your site. It's a good idea, and it makes sense, kind of sucks, but it makes sense.

[jcoc07]

I've seen a few backlinks count on Yahoo but not Google.

[Richie_Ni]

Google will follow the links, but there is no pr benifit from it from what I can tell. I believe this is main reason why google put this tag into play, to stop people from gaining pr from they should not be getting it. Just a theroy of course.
I think your right.
A few days ago,I created a new site and then made a comment in a PR6 blog,afterwards the site was indexed the next day.

[330td]

So spam site will be still indexed :mad: