Dear Webmasters, Does Google crawl a rel="NOFOLLOW" tagged link and not give it credit, or does it just stop at the link and not visit that page unless it's found elsewhere? pls explain about this code, what do you think ? Thanks JAY
Actually I believe Google still follows the link and crawls that site, it doesn't pass any link authority, pagerank or SEO weight.
Again, there is much mis-conception about this. Back in July was when Matt Cutt stated that nofollow doesn't even crawl the site, but if you read that post you'll see the answer to one of the comments being the spider DOES remember the URL and crawls it at a later date but not through that current site. You can also sometimes see in the link: search operator sites that have the nofollow tag towards that site, but they are still listed when there isn't another link on that site. I do believe GoogleBot stills cache the website URL for a later date.
He is correct, I'm not doubting his source or cite, I'm just giving an alternate explanation on what I believe actually happens with nofollow, I should of been more clear in my orignal post. NoFollow does NOT get crawled from that link, I personally do believe however that the URL is cache and crawled at another time and date. Considering you can sometimes find nofollow links in your link: search operator.
Just give him the countless blog posts on it Or link to the direct post in GoogleBlog or Matt Cutts, thats where I verified the information.
Im on a mobile so cant really search, copy or paste so yes he can research it. But no Google wont remember a nofollow and come back to it. Put a page up on your site, make a nofollow link to it from one of your other pages and see. It wont get cached, i got pages been like this for nearly 2 years.
I disagree. Links that has no follow still cached by google. I have seen many links from site in my webmaster tools that uses no follow but still count as backlinks.
They don't count as backlinks at all, and a link from a Nofollow will not get your page cached or indexed and Google does not follow these link. Analogy time, a Nofollow link is like a locked door and a regular Dofollow link is like an open door. Google walks down the hall, goes in rooms with open doors and caches what's in there. Google see's a locked door, knows it's indeed there but doesn't assign any weight to what's in it or enter it. Got it?
Although the nofollow link doesn't pass any PR, Google still uses the anchor text to get information about the content of the linked page, and this could indirectly affect SERPs.
But how can you be so sure that the links is not cached? Why does I've seen many links from site that uses no-follow in webmaster tools? How can you proved that it's not cached If I get links from site that has nofollow? Sorry for being rude. I just want to point out that the links was still indexed even the site was nofollow.
What part of no nofollow don't you understand? Its not rel="followlater" or rel="possiblefollow" or rel="". Its nofollow. Plain and simple.
When you own 60 websites, and utilize the rel Nofollow on most of them and the pages arn't cached after 2 years i think it's safe to assume it doesn't cache pages linked with only nofollow links don't you? Amen
So you mean after two years the was not cached so it's still useful before 2 years. I believe that even the site doesn't pass PR if its nofollow the anchor text still help.
The links are crawled but the linked page get no juice out of it. For instance. Submitting to DIGG makes your story gets indexed early (most of the times, i believe). Although, DIGG uses No-Follow. Also, Wikipedia also puts nofollow to all the links. But a link on wikipedia makes the bots to crawl your page with short intervals of time.