Does Yahoo count "nofollow" tags on links or give credit?

[addaminsane]

the title says it all. I'm wandering because after doing some linkdomain: searches i found yahoo counting wikipedia links to some pages. Wikipedia implements nofollow tags on outgoing links, and yahoo was showing it. So doesn't that mean that yahoo gives credit to nofollow links? Just wandering about an observation. Maybe someone could enlighten me about nofollow tags now as i've been out of action for a while.

[snowbird]

Read this link (http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050118-204728). It should answer most of your questions in detail.

The short answer is yes, all three major search engines recognize nofollow and do not use it for passing juice. However, these links are still indexed and still provide anchor text - which still helps some. Some believe a small portion of juice is still passed to the destination link, and I tend to agree with that as well.

[chaitanya.seo]

Yes, Yahoo counts Nofollow links.

[addaminsane]

sweet, thanks for the info guys, thats what i figured, seems like nofollow is mostly a spam scare tactic.

[Lovely]

The short answer is yes, all three major search engines recognize nofollow and do not use it for passing juice. However, these links are still indexed and still provide anchor text - which still helps some. Some believe a small portion of juice is still passed to the destination link, and I tend to agree with that as well.
Yes, I agree with you, a number of nofollow links still count, it is not completely useless.

[SEO_WatchDog]

Yahoo, unlike Google counts nofolow links

[aninfo]

Yes Yahoo counts the nofollow links.

[godsofchaos]

They do count no follow links, however they dont assess a no follow link to position any other site on their engine :)

[kingofsanda]

Google is the only search engine that does not count no follow links, yahoo counts no follow
links an other types of links that google does not count.

[rainborick]

No, Yahoo! supports the rel="nofollow" standard and will not count such links for ranking purposes. See http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000069.html for details. Just because you see a link in the Site Explorer display does not mean that link is counted for ranking purposes.

[Kentucky.Star]

Unfortunately they do . I had a bad time getting my site listed on yahoo and I really dont think there is much traffic I'll get from yahoo anyways.