Does Yahoo recognize rel="nofollow"?

Hello. I noticed Yahoo found some links back to my site with an attribute rel="nofollow". Does it give any value to these links?

Thank you.

 

I don't know the "official" answer, but I read in a post the other day that this is a Google-only attribute. Of course, I can't verify the authenticity of that post but it makes sense since Google is the one who created the attribute.

 

well.. MSN doesn't see them either, only Yahoo

 

In my young experience, yahoo doesn't seem to recognize rel="nofollow", i've been testing it with 2 of my sites! One of my site had the nofollow attribute for my other site outbound link, MSN recognized it and didnt show it in my backlink results, Yahoo didnt recognize it , i had more yahoo BL than MSN BL, was fun! Its usually the opposite.

 

From my testing I have found out that MSN does not recognize "re-nofollow".

 

As far as I know only google recognizes the attribute.

 

Yup, I have several links according to Yahoo that have the nofollow attribute.

 

And how can you be sure that they are counted?

 

Yahoo uses nofollow on their own pages.

Check out all the links posted on http://answers.yahoo.com/

Every link and source posted is nofollow- (I use firefox, and have an extention which highlights all nofollow links- They show up like a pink neon sign!)

So they may not discount nofollow links on your site- but they do use it on their sites- (worried about hoarding their google pr I assume - )

Also funny you mentioned this- read this new post from a yahoo emp on how nofollow as a parameter is a dud!

http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/006800.html

 

yahoo is still open to blog spaming, if you do careful research there will be many sites and blogs spamed to the top

hahaa!! still time to use that!!! go on guys

 

well eventually that would die out so better invest time in doing something that will last.

 

I'm not seeing any nofollow links on that page or in the source code. I checked signed in and again after logging out.....

Checked with Firefox and IE.

 

Probably not. You can read more about it here from the Yahoo! Search Blog...

A Defense Against Comment Spam

and this from Search Engine Watch...

Google, Yahoo, MSN Unite On Support For Nofollow Attribute For Links

 

Furthermore, see the bottom of this post: http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/basics/basics-10.html

 

But this nofollow is meant as for whole page meta not for specificlink;

btw, what do you think about XNF?

 

oh yeah, forget about that post then. must be because it's monday
i'm not sure what XNF is.

 

I am not sure the nofollow is always used by Slurp as I have seen links in linkdomain: at yahoo that show links to me from blogs such as mattcutts.com and many others.

 

creed- I was not totally clear. Drill down into the q&a in http://answers.yahoo.com/

If a question is answered, and posts a source link as a reference, each link has this code attached-

This is a sample link (not my site):

"<a rel="nofollow" href="http://landscaping.about.com/cs/pondwatergarden/a/water_fountains.htm" title="http://landscaping.about.com/cs/pondwatergarden/a/water_fountains.htm">http://landscaping.about.com/cs/pondwate...</a>
"

 

Seems I misunderstood your post - thanks for clarifying for me