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Nofollow tag- Yahoo obeys it

Discussion in 'Yahoo' started by bubaipal, May 15, 2008.

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  2. whoisbambam

    whoisbambam Peon

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    I am surprised people think that.

    They also follow nofollow, noindex.

    They also parse noindex, and they also parse files disallowed in the robots.txt

    What they agreed NOT to do is to INDEX it for all to see in the displayed search results.

    I used to cloak, back in 1999 to 2002 inclusive, and I watched my logs very carefully. I saw that these files where being requested by FAST, Gulliver, Inktomi, Googlebot, and various other spiders independent of the robots.txt, noindex, and meta nofollow (the link attribute nofollow didnt exist back then).

    But they never indexed said.
     
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    http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/search/webcrawler/slurp-12.html

    Yahoo! Slurp obeys the rel="nofollow" attribute for links. web publishers and blog owners can apply a rel="nofollow" attribute to any hyperlink on their page to indicate that the link may not be an approved or trusted link. Note: Slurp may use a "nofollow" link for discovering content, but the link will not be considered an "approved" link for consideration for ranking of the target page.

    This attribute works to reduce the benefits of comment abuse. For instance, websites with public comment areas can apply a "nofollow" attribute to publicly entered links to fight comment spam.
     
    meep99, May 17, 2008 IP
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    fasttrack Banned

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    Why would you think otherwise?
     
    fasttrack, May 17, 2008 IP
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    meep99,

    correct.

    just because they dont count the link as a vote, does not mean they dont follow it.

    the poster also was not completely clear as to whether the nofollow was in reference to the anchor attribute, or if it was in reference to the meta tag nofollow. However, it seemed to indicate he was referring to the former.

    thanks for the further information, specifically, in regard to the purpose of the nofollow to viewers.
     
    whoisbambam, May 17, 2008 IP
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    banker0679 Well-Known Member

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    do the link command on yahoo, and you will see how they put all your links in order.

    most of my top links have nofollow tags, but have high PR rankings
     
    banker0679, May 22, 2008 IP
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    That's the purpose of nofollow. If you don't want pages indexed by specific search engines, use robots.txt, noindex/nofollow meta tags.

    MSN/Live Search regonizes rel=nofollow as well.
     
    snowbird, May 22, 2008 IP
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    banker0679 Well-Known Member

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    i forgot that google does also.

    check out your backlinks in the webmaster tools
     
    banker0679, May 22, 2008 IP
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    Any good or decent search engine follows the right technique, no follow was developed in regard to keeping it right. Its quite normal that such a good search engine is following what it should. Whoever tells it otherwise is surely selling something to you.
     
    godsofchaos, May 22, 2008 IP
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    I think there is a difference between following and scoring the link. They may still "follow" and record the link, but the vote won't count. However, I still feel that nofollow links are good for other purposes such as link velocity, keyword placement, etc.
     
    selfhelpebooks, May 22, 2008 IP
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    No it does not . Does not follow , does not index , does not give juice -- at all .
     
    sleuth1, May 23, 2008 IP
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    they chose badly when they called it nofollow it should have been named norank or notrust
     
    vagrant, May 23, 2008 IP
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    Thank you!
    your post important for me!
     
    phaiboon, May 23, 2008 IP