Nofollow tag was created by Google, and I've always thought it worked for Google SEO. Can anyone else confirm that Yahoo! also recognize this tag these days?
On January 18, 2005 Yahoo! wrote on their search blog: By adding a rel="nofollow" attribute to hyperlinks, webmasters and weblog owners can tell search engines that the links are effectively untrusted. For example, this: <a href="http://spammer.example.com/">buy now</a> Becomes this: <a href="http://spammer.example.com/" rel="nofollow">buy now</a> We think this is a good first step toward significantly reducing the spam burden on bloggers and weblog hosting companies. It's great to see so many players on board. In the coming weeks you can expect to see the changes reflected in our web index. So yes, Yahoo! cares for the nofollow. Best Regards, Jab
I think Yahoo is still ignoring this tags...That article was outdated... In my experience my posts on nofollow forum or links to other sites is still following... nofollow tags are ignored...
That's exactly what I think too. I know that Yahoo! said so in their web site, but as far as I know they always count nofollow links. I just wondered there was a change in that.
<Bad Mood> Interesting thing about your statement is that it is as useful as a dog turd when you are drowning . Check posts on DP recently and you will see pages of posts about how spam is increasing in Google and how Yahoo is getting better. Your statement is so yesterday.. You are pretty sure they ignore the nofollow links eh - what proof? Seriously, you answer exam questions that way as well? Put some substance to your "thoughts" - looks more like ramblings. The nofollow means they will not count it in their SERPs algorithm. Do you know their algorithm so well that you know this is not true? Remember, NoFollow does not mean they do not count it as a backlink or do not crawl to that link - simply that it does not influence their SERPs. </Bad Mood>