Does Yahoo recognize rel="nofollow"?

[Gem-Fashion]

Hello. I noticed Yahoo found some links back to my site with an attribute rel="nofollow". Does it give any value to these links?

Thank you.

[Brian B]

I don't know the "official" answer, but I read in a post the other day that this is a Google-only attribute. Of course, I can't verify the authenticity of that post but it makes sense since Google is the one who created the attribute.

[Gem-Fashion]

well.. MSN doesn't see them either, only Yahoo

[irka]

Hello. I noticed Yahoo found some links back to my site with an attribute rel="nofollow". Does it give any value to these links?

Thank you.

In my young experience, yahoo doesn't seem to recognize rel="nofollow", i've been testing it with 2 of my sites! One of my site had the nofollow attribute for my other site outbound link, MSN recognized it and didnt show it in my backlink results, Yahoo didnt recognize it ;), i had more yahoo BL than MSN BL, was fun! Its usually the opposite.

[Neil Patel]

From my testing I have found out that MSN does not recognize "re-nofollow".

[Imran]

As far as I know only google recognizes the attribute.

[Juanzo]

Yup, I have several links according to Yahoo that have the nofollow attribute.

[CReed]

Yup, I have several links according to Yahoo that have the nofollow attribute.

And how can you be sure that they are counted?

[corinaw]

Yahoo uses nofollow on their own pages.

Check out all the links posted on http://answers.yahoo.com/

Every link and source posted is nofollow- (I use firefox, and have an extention which highlights all nofollow links- They show up like a pink neon sign!)

So they may not discount nofollow links on your site- but they do use it on their sites- (worried about hoarding their google pr I assume - ;) )

Also funny you mentioned this- read this new post from a yahoo emp on how nofollow as a parameter is a dud!

http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/006800.html

[SandisV]

yahoo is still open to blog spaming, if you do careful research there will be many sites and blogs spamed to the top ;)

hahaa!! still time to use that!!! go on guys:P

[mcgyver]

well eventually that would die out so better invest time in doing something that will last.

[CReed]

Yahoo uses nofollow on their own pages.

Check out all the links posted on http://answers.yahoo.com/

Every link and source posted is nofollow- (I use firefox, and have an extention which highlights all nofollow links- They show up like a pink neon sign!)


:confused: I'm not seeing any nofollow links on that page or in the source code. I checked signed in and again after logging out.....

Checked with Firefox and IE.

[brian394]

Does it give any value to these links?
Probably not. You can read more about it here from the Yahoo! Search Blog...

A Defense Against Comment Spam (http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000069.html)

and this from Search Engine Watch...

Google, Yahoo, MSN Unite On Support For Nofollow Attribute For Links (http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050118-204728)

[BrianR2]

Furthermore, see the bottom of this post: http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/basics/basics-10.html

[SandisV]

But this nofollow is meant as for whole page meta not for specificlink;

btw, what do you think about XNF?

[BrianR2]

oh yeah, forget about that post then. must be because it's monday :confused:
i'm not sure what XNF is.

[gford]

I am not sure the nofollow is always used by Slurp as I have seen links in linkdomain: at yahoo that show links to me from blogs such as mattcutts.com and many others.

[corinaw]

creed- I was not totally clear. Drill down into the q&a in http://answers.yahoo.com/

If a question is answered, and posts a source link as a reference, each link has this code attached-

This is a sample link (not my site):

"<a rel="nofollow" href="http://landscaping.about.com/cs/pondwatergarden/a/water_fountains.htm" title="http://landscaping.about.com/cs/pondwatergarden/a/water_fountains.htm">http://landscaping.about.com/cs/pondwate...</a>
"

[CReed]

Seems I misunderstood your post - thanks for clarifying for me :D