Hi, there, Does google follow rel=friend ? I mean: <a href= "http:// mydomainname.tld" rel="friend"> My Website </a> Thanks
Google follows any links it can find, even those that contain rel="nofollow." You can't stop Google from following a link it has found. Nofollow is a misnomer: it simply means that the link passes no PR.
My PR4 link partners give me three way links with rel="friend". Got dozens of these kinds of links but my keyword position doesnot show up better.
It's a XFN link relationship value and is followed by search engines. A better question is if it passes any PageRank or linkjuice. XFNâ„¢ (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks. XFN enables web authors to indicate their relationship(s) to the people in their blogrolls simply by adding a 'rel' attribute to their <a href> tags, e.g.: <a href="http://www.socialwebsiteanalyzer.com" rel="friend met" >Social Website Analyzer </a> HTML: Wordpress supports for example these categories; - identity - friendship - physical - professional - geographical - family - romantic Check out more details at http://gmpg.org/xfn/intro Good luck!
Well, I guess you learn something new everyday. I'd never heard of rel=friend before. I've got to believe that google just ignores it, which means the link counts like a normal link. It's easy enough to test though. Just make a link with a made up word to another page, and then a week later search for the made up word, and see if both pages are shown in google.
This would not be a test for whether or not Google follows the link; it would only text whether Google associates the anchor text with the target site via a rel="friend" link. I have little doubt that it does. (By the way, I have tested this for nofollow links and found that Google makes no such association, which again shows that nofollow blog commenting is 100% worthless.) Google follows all links so that it can discover all pages. But if you still want to test it, you can create a Web page with unique content that is linked only via a rel="friend" link and has no other links pointing to it. Then make sure the linking page gets recrawled. Ideally the linking page should have high PR to ensure that the pages linked from it have a strong chance of being indexed. Then just wait to see whether the target page gets indexed. If it does (and it will), it means the link was followed. But then, even nofollow links are actually followed, which explains why links from, say, Facebook or Tiwtter (which are nofollowed) can get your now page indexed very quickly.
If the link you are providing from your website is even yours then also you need to set that link as no-follow. This is what Google link policy is all about.
Google link policy is about not spamming. Your "India Link Building Services" lose credibility when you pollute threads with irrelevant comments such as the one above, just so that you can plug your worthless link. Please don't do it, it sucks. Plus, it doesn't help you SEO. Notice how you are only on page 7 of Google when you search for "India link building services," which corresponds exactly to your domain name. If you can't be in the top results for this kind of query, your SEO services are definitely a scam.
people says that google do not follow no follow links but when I see in my google webmaster tool it shows link from mixx which are no follow
Because nofollow does not really mean nofollow. This a method for the author to tell G that it should not pass PR. The whole thing is the result of people selling links on high PR pages and G penalizing them for doing so. G says, if you sell links mark them as nofollow to prove that you are not selling PR. Then we will treat you page normally.