Google and nofollow links

[pgrantuk]

Hi All

Can anyone tell me if Google still counts backlinks that have the nofollow tag as a vote for your website and just not give the pr from them, or are these links completely useless?

Thanks

[niessuh]

i think no. it's completely useless.

[mhmdkhamis]

no follow don,t pass pagerank only but i think google see it as back link

[iaria]

actually google follows some of these links, but they don't count to PR

[Robert T]

Hi,

Google treats nofollow links like this:

No link juice or PageRank is passed
The link will not be crawled
The link is recorded as a backlink (they show up in Google Webmaster Tools)

More info on nofollow links (http://www.websitedesignelixirs.com/nofollow-links.html)

[MikeBradbury]

The links get crawled, I promise you that, they just aren't given much weight.

Something else to consider is that while, yes, nofollows do not pass Link Juice, they DO have implications regarding the quality of your linking profile.

if Google finds your site and sees only follow tags from blogs, it will throw the red flag. Create as natural a linking profile as possible is my advice.

[dpking]

They dont pass the PR juice !!

[Brett Gian]

In the eye of Google No follow tag are only for duplicate content. If you are using no follow that means you are promoting a sites or content for visitors not for search engines.

[MikeBradbury]

In the eye of Google No follow tag are only for duplicate content. If you are using no follow that means you are promoting a sites or content for visitors not for search engines.

No follow tags are for:


paid links
comment spam
pages you don't want your link-juice going to


But duplicate content?

[Robert T]

The links get crawled, I promise you that, they just aren't given much weight.

Something else to consider is that while, yes, nofollows do not pass Link Juice, they DO have implications regarding the quality of your linking profile.

if Google finds your site and sees only follow tags from blogs, it will throw the red flag. Create as natural a linking profile as possible is my advice.

See #14 (http://scholar.google.com/webmasters/bot.html#www)

Although, I have seen nofollow links "crawled" on occasion, generally not. Not sure if this behavior is an occasional script error or what.

[billybw]

Some experts think that Google still uses the anchor text in nofollow links, but doesn't do anything else with them.

[angilina]

Google will show nofollow links in webmaster tools but these links dont count when it comes to PR.

[kingofsanda]

No follow links may not pass link juice but they are not useless if you can get
lots of targeted traffic from them.

[lzy]

No added-value to PR that's for sure.

[Lovely]

Nofollow link is not completely useless if you get alot to a targeted anchor text or traffic, because it count when it come to Google webmaster tool, but useless when it come to link juice for PR...

[enous]

I think more links is better as Google's always carzy..

[ashisharora_83]

nofollow links are completely useless but if you get links from high traffic sites like wikipedia then offcourse you will get some traffic...

--Thanks...

[SEOibiza]

nofollow links are completely useless .

disagree, anchor text value can still pass even if the PR doesnt. its obviously a better link if it's got a high PR to OBL ratio and passing juice, but we think that nofollowed links can still assign anchor text value to a site and help it rank.