If Site A links to Site B with the rel=no follow tag, while Site B links to Site A without the no follow tag (ie a normal link), does that mean Google is more likely to credit the inbound link to Site A? Would Google consider the link to Site A as a oneway link? Or, would Google consider that Site A is attempting to manipulate it? Consider that Google DOES crawl no-follow links, as is obvious by the fact that they now appear in Google webmaster tools. Can anyone provide me with an example?
LinkCondom rel="nofollow" FEATURES..... Hoard your PageRank Hide your outgoing links Screw your reciprocal link partners Add code bloat to your page Find out today if people are buying links for the right reasons Yet more to obsess about Freely link to skank neighbourhoods Far easier to use than JavaScript, perl, php, robots.txt etc
In theory it should act as you described. In practice there were several experiments showing that Google does not follow it own nofollow attribute. So if you use it is up to you, probably has effect on other search engines.
Your theories are a bit gray hat... Mostly evil. When you say hide the links, I hope you mean place them on a "stranded" page of a site no other pages link to, so the link exchange link is never found. If you actually hide them, like make it so no one can see them, Google will get you.
The "reciprocal" link would be considered a one way link by Google if one side uses a no-follow link (no effect on Yahoo). --- It is a bad idea to hide links in a page (becaue Google checks for that).
According to my view nofollow links counted as backlinks but useless regarding ranking but perform a little part of site / keywords popularity. What you think about it ?.
Links with the "no follow" attribute are NOT ignored by Google, as demonstrated by the fact that they show as backlinks in Google's webmaster tools. We can, however, assume that they are ignored / irrelevant in terms of both passing PageRank and Serps. But google definately still does register them. Is there any evidence for the original hypothesis I posted? Anyone done this on their site? Anyone witnessed it on other sites? It would be great to have a definative example with proof.
I agree that it makes sense . But to run a test may be useless. By the time you're able to prove your point, things will no doubt change again. Seems we figure things out and when we're on to it, they pull the switch
It would be better if you don't link exchange to site that does not return the same benefits as what you give to their site.