URGENT - Google is counting nofollow as backlinks, im positive sure

Yenerich:

This is a ridiculous statement. Yes Google has just decided to give up on no-follow. WHAT?

You people are driving me insane. 1/2 of the people that have posted on this thread are using common sense. They (and myself) realize that just because Google indexes a backlink doesn't mean that backlink will help you at all in the SERPS if it has a rel=nofollow.

Then 1/2 of the people in here keep saying that "Oh boy Google is indexing those nofollow backlinks! Yay! It's all good now. I'll go out and get some nofollows now! Yippee!"

Give me a break people. Go ahead and get you some nofollow links. Maybe Google is really passing PR through them...

 

No search engine count the no follow links except yahoo. You will not get any juice from the no follow links

 

He he

Nofollowers (a new religion) are reciting here the "versicles" from Google sacred words

Im joking, not trying to make a war.

Everyone has its own idea and its okay. I don't see why nofollowers adepts send us to the hell

I don't believe any more in Santa Claus and i don't believe anymore in Google words

 

Google decided to use the standard W3C tag rel=nofollow (which was not then being used) as a way for webmasters to instruct G that the link should not pass PR, period. The webmaster would not want to pass PR if his policy is to keep all of his PR, or if he did not trust the target site, or if it is a paid advertisement.

G has no way of knowing what the reason is, although it can make some guesses. The point is, just because a link is nofollow, G can not know the webmaster's reason. If you thought that nofollow links serve no purpose, you are wrong. They simply don't pass PR. If your objective is only to gain PR, then they *are* worthless.

/*tom*/

 

I also noticed this issue

 

yenerich, I like your tool. Thank you.

 

So, it is concluded that nofollow can help increase your SERPs, but not page rank?

I believe they should make this much more clear, because I have been disregarding nofollow links for a while now.

 

Thanks.

This freeware utility usage is beyond this discussion, since it helps you to analize the incoming links that Google reports on the Webmaster Tools.
By analyze, i mean that you can manage it more handly that in Google Webmaster tools.

 

I'm a bit confused with this too coz this happens to mine too. I just hope they will be considered as quality backlinks.

 

Just because the links show up in Google Webmaster Tools doesnt mean it's helping your PR hahaha.

Looking at your external links in the Google Webmaster Tools is the same thing as looking at your "Inlinks" in Yahoo Site Explorer... doesnt have anything to do with Google PR.

 

no it's just recognized as a link to you, i'm pretty sure this was addressed before as just a 'feature' not even a bug - they don't show all links, but webmaster panel just shows you all links to you regardless of whether they're voting for you.

which goes to show you one new thing about google - they seem to record all links, regardless of nofollow - which is kinda stupid storage wise.

 

until now ,I still wonder what make the NO follow and Do follow is important,I think the only best thing is when this no follow convert traffic only that my concern.careless the DO or NO link back into

 

I got the same issue. My site with many nofollow backlinks jumped up suddenly to page 2 of may keywords in Google. I stopped adding backlinks for this site for 3 months

 

Yup,
Some what true.

Great avatar btw

 

Google does not count no follow

i am sure

 

I wrote an article about a city.
The only external link I got to the page was from wikipedia; the wiki page was #1 for that city, my page was nowhere to be found.
Then the Pope visited that city. Thousands of people suddently visited the wiki page, and from there they clicked through on to my page.
My page shot up to #2, right behind the wiki page.

Probably, links with nofollow won't help you get PageRank.

But I don't care about PageRank. I care about rankings. And nofollow links, depending on certain circunstances, help you improve rankings.

 

Proove that.

 

Thanks for the info. Google keep changing its algorithm frequently.

 

No one can prove both sides.

Only the one who made the algo can

 

Not only does Google recognize nofollow links, the text in the nofollow link is used by Google (at least sometimes) to help them understand how to index your site in the search engine.

As noted above, what Google has said is that the nofollow links do not pass the "authority" of the site containing the link to site which is linked to. They have never claimed to ignore the links entirely.