Over at Search Engine Roundtable, Tamar points out a thread on WebmasterWorld asking whether or not Google Webmaster Tools lists incoming links which use the NoFollow attribute.
Yes. All links show up in Google Webmaster Tools, but Google Webmaster Tools does not make any distinctions between incoming links that pass link popularity and incoming links that don’t.
Good job Tamar!
Inbound links are still inbound links regardless of the nofollow attribute. Plus, they’re still valuable from a business perspective as they can funnel targeted traffic to your site.
Nofollow just blocks the flow of Google Juice, not Money Juice :)
Yahoo Site Explorer also tracks inbound links using the NoFollow tag and Yahoo also says that it does not let links which use the NoFollow tag influence ranking (but it does follow nofollow links to find & index new content).
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9 responses so far ↓
Gidseo on Aug 8, 2007 at 10:55 am
I’m not 100% convinced that NoFollow does 100% block the flow of GoogleJuice… Am I alone in this?
Sujan Patel on Aug 8, 2007 at 11:45 am
I agree with Gidseo. Unfortunetly I do not have proof that Nofollow links count for link value
Eric Lander on Aug 8, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Gidseo, you do not stand alone. Just because they’re told not to follow, does not mean that they will not access it on it’s own at another point in time. In the end, they’ll have note of it being referenced from something at one point or another.
Still, I’m unsure at best.
egorych on Aug 8, 2007 at 2:16 pm
Gidseo, you are not along :). It’s not so simple with this “nofollow” tag influence. I think Google does check it when ranking pages. But who definetly knows?
San Francisco Giants Blog on Aug 8, 2007 at 8:26 pm
So total inbound links(using nofollow) have no bearing on improving links for either Google or Yahoo?
Wayne Smallman on Aug 9, 2007 at 7:03 am
OK, here’s another angle: say you’re running an ecommerce website and you post a comment on a ‘blog, accompanied by a deep link (as I often do, but not today) to a product and there’s a nofollow on the URL.
If you get 10 people follow that link and 3 buy something, on the balance of things, who cares whether you earn any link luv from Google, Yahoo! et al?
Convonix on Aug 22, 2007 at 6:16 am
I predict some people will now, in return, stop linking to Wikipedia, or “nofollow” their links to Wikipedia (following the argument that if they don’t trust their own system, we shouldn’t either, and also following social etiquette – returning a disfavor, so to speak)
Seo Freelance India on Apr 2, 2008 at 7:03 am
No I am not Agree! My blog www.seohimanshu.blogspot.com has many no follow links but it has excellent SERPS!
What’s your opinion??
ali on Jun 16, 2008 at 7:18 am
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