Are facebook links nofollow?

Discussion in 'Google' started by mji2010, May 17, 2009.

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    I have a facebook group and I assumed the links were nofollow, but google has it listed in my webmaster tools as a link. It is a pr 5
     
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  2. magda

    magda Notable Member

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    They are nofollow - google does list nofollow links in webmaster tools - yahoo answers links show up there too
     
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  3. un!expected

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    Yeap, unfortunately they are no follow.
    Also I think Wikipedia is no follow.
     
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    But now some search engine could indexed the no follow links,so it is useful,and i think it could increase the traffic to your site.
     
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    All major sites like that are nofollow, it isn't that easy to get high quality links :)
     
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  6. poshswinger

    poshswinger Active Member

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    Yes, they are nofollow. Actually, you can easily check with using the Firefox add-on "Search Status" for checking yourself.
     
    poshswinger, May 17, 2009 IP