How Google Treat With "No follow" Attribute ?

Hi,

I Would Like To Know How Google Treats Link With "No follow" Attribute,
Those links are not helpful ? Than How ?

Please let me know regarding this no follow attribute.

Chaitanya Patel.
www.cygnet-infotech.com

 

It does not follow nofollow links and does not pass PR to those links. So those links are not helpful for PR but may still be helpful for traffic if it's on a popular site.

 

nofollow links will be ignored by google . it will not help you and it will not hurt you too.

 

Not only that, but as far as Google is concerned, the page that is being linked to with nofollow will not exist (from that point of entry anyway). What does this mean? Easy. Let's say I have two pages linking to a third. The first page uses rel="nofollow" on the link to the third page, while the second one doesn't. Googebot comes along and indexes the page, follows all the links like it normally does, and then sees this attribute that pulls a Jedi Mind Trick and says "this is not the link you are looking for". The bot complies, skips the link and moves on to the next. The second page however, will also get crawled normally, but since the same link to the third page does not have rel="nofollow" the spider will follow the link and promptly index the page (and follow all the links on that one), unless it encounters a robots.txt directive or noindex, nofollow META tag telling it to go jump off a cliff (but for the sake of this post, it doesn't have any of that, so the page gets indexed normally and links followed normally as well).

 

Hi c.seo


You will Not get Pagerank Juice from No follow but you can get good Traffic from those links.



Thanks
Jay

 

I have found a new characterstic of no follow attribute...

<a href="http://training.cygnet-infotech.com" rel="me nofollow">

Will You let me know please what could be the effect of this "me nofollow" ?

Awaiting your reply.
Thanks and Regards,
Chaitanya Patel.

Software Development India
Training and Learning Center India
Learning management system
Optician practice management software​

 

me and nofollow are two separate attribute values being stored in the same attribute. The nofollow would still be honored, though you might have better luck putting it first.

 

Nofollow doesn't help in getting page rank of webpage.
But I still in doubt,
Wordpress and possibly some other blogging platforms use rel=”external nofollow”.
and Now a days Digg Using rel="me nofollow"
So There Must Be any thing hidden regrading weight of page rank provided by these links.
Let me know in regards of this.
Best Regards,
Chaitanya Patel.

 

Google "doesnt follow" no-follow links.

The bots do not index the links with the no-follow attribute and thus do not count it as a backlink - The bots hence do not crawl the page to which the no-follow attributed link is pointing to.

The no-follow attribute is usually used to avoid search engine spam or being seen as "search engine spam"

 

exactly, stephen

What I was saying is that there are two attribute values for the rel="" attribute. You can do the same thing with the class attribute. For example, class="class1 class2" would apply CSS rules from .class1 and .class2 respectively.

 

Thanks for the great explanation.... Exactly, really great....

 

If a link has a NoFollow attribute, it doesn't exist for Google (as far as I know).

 

What's with the backspaces before the quotation marks?

 

Google takes "nofollow" literally and does not "follow" the link at all. That is supposedly their official statement, but experiments conducted by SEOs show conflicting results. They show instead that Google does follow the link, but does not index the linked-to page, unless it was in Google's index already for other reasons (such as other, non-nofollow links that point to the page). Links with "nofollow" are included in the backlinks reporting data at Google's Webmaster Central.

 

rel="nofollow" is just ignored by Google as If the link does not exist. But still that link is picked up Yahoo and MSN and you can rank better over there. So I believe just be link hungry

 

I am curious too as if Google keeping tab on all "nofollow"s anyway as for the goal of tracking paid links.

On official google webmasters help center it stated:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66736

here's quote:

Links purchased for advertising should be designated as such. This can be done in several ways, such as:

* Adding a rel="nofollow" attribute to the <a> tag
* Redirecting the links to an intermediate page that is blocked from search engines with a robots.txt file

I wonder how Google knows when the link was "designated" as paid per their request in the above post or it was "nofollow" - ed for another reason.

 

They don't care "why" a link is Nofollowed, they treat all links with that attribute the same. They are just saying if you sell a link for advertising, use Nofollow so the link doesn't influence anything besides traffic.

 

There are a lot of disputes on this topics, but nobody really knows. Googles algorithm decides if a link is paid or not, if its decision is fair or correct is another question.

 

LOL - do you truly believe in that? I think all this are really speculations as nobody can say for sure.

 

Do i believe is what?