Hey guys, I was browsing blogs the other day about SEO, and I stumbled across a post that had some comments streaming from it. I was reading them and there was a bit of confusion in it (at least for me). You see, the poster said that he/she believed that the nofollow attribute caused the links in the comments to have no ranking power (no PR, nada), but that it didn't mean that Google never followed the link confused. Anyways, I was curious as to how that worked. If Google still "follows" the link, but adds no real meat to it; in terms of page rank, or link weight at all, but still crawls the site, does that mean that there is SOME good aspects of posting on a site that has the nofollow attribute in it? If anyone could please clarify, I would be absolutely overjoyed! Thanks! Bryan
They might follow the link but do not give any Pr from the site links is on. The only advantage would be to get link spidered if they follow them.
See, that's what I was thinking. If that was the case, then, doesn't Google then see what your site is relevent for? If they do, then they may add you to the search engine's still. That means that, although the links don't get you any ranking power, they still allow you to get indexed. I wonder if that is the case.
Hi Bryan, I believe that nobody can answer this question here with concrete perspective.. I myself think that Google do follow these links but take away the ranking score.. Just my take on this
The question is really interesting. I even don't think about this, if nofollow links are folowed by Google's spiders it means that every such link allows SE robots to index my blog or site more often. It could be very useful, but I doubt that anyone could give an answer to this issue.