ever since Nofollow came out you could squeeze a little Juice out of it, But Yesterday Matt Cutts posted here on David Naylor that, They had fixed The Problem !
DaveN’s Statement :
“Nofollow links can play a little in search ranking, we have all seen test’s where Bloggers have signed Blogs, with an obscure anchor texts and these Blogs had nofollow’s and the target site ranks for these obscure terms now.”
Matt Cutts Statement ( well post ) :
You need to recheck that, because it’s not correct …
Don’t believe me? Check it by doing a nofollow link with obscure anchortext to an obscure page, and see for yourself.
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Doh OK stopping my bots
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So did I, I was convinced that it was helping.
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So do you believe its fixed Dave?
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Matt has never lied to me before so I have no reason to disbelieve him this time
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MattC, believe it. Cool name, btw.
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Sure, Mr. Cutts… Just like you “fixed” googlebombs, eh?
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Thank you for confirming this fix, however I am sad to see it. lol
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yeah…
wonder what happen if we all use nofollow?Have a good one.
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yeah… !
Wonder what happen if we all use nofollow on our websites? And how about DMOZ & Yahoo directory.Have a good one.
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Time to school Mr. Cutts, anyway I owe him one for his generosity for the past few months.
Okay Matt, pal of my!
How do you explain this?
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You see that nice url, it is in rel=”nofollow”
So why is it indexed?
Well folks I will let you know on a little secret, robots are spiders and they crawl urls text or anchor, so if you want your url crawled just set up a text link to it and a robot will do what it suppose to do…. So, Googlebot crawl http://www.igorthetroll.com
Yahoo just indexed the Troll and I am sure Google will be next.
Now I do not know if PR is passed and how much of it, but from my experiments with Matt blog I do not think it is much if passed at all.
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We need to change the title of this page to Matt’s cofirmation of Nofollow Fix is wrong!
I have tons of pages from other Websites with an obscure anchortext Igor The Troll, using rel=”nofollow” which I just added to these Websites after Matt made his statement all indexed in Google.Matt, next time please do not hypothesize but give us the facts.
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Igor you have it the wrong way round seomoz is indexed just google isn’t passing any love from that link to you. But your test is fucked already
http://lists.trolltech.com/qt-interest/2007-07/thread00764-0.html that’s a Clean link
DaveN
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Dave I never said anything about love. We are talking about indexing the strage keywords and indexing the page that is in the rel=”nofollow”
I have seen Googlebot come to my server logs before I did a blitz on the links.
I also have a record of Google Tools indexing a nofollow meta tag, showing links to a page that has the atribute.Like I said, the love juice is it passed, it is hard to say and really irelevent when it comes to Viral, but from all that I seen Google crawls the nofollow links, indexes them and indexes the title in the link as well…
Oh and Dave, there are so many places to get the love, I do not even bother checking if there is rel=”nofollow” or not, I just do my Viral which works best for people and if they come the search engines will follow.
So if Google wants to tell everyone do not post a link because it will not be followed, hey that is their story.
But us as developers have to go with the gut feeling and do our job of promoting our projects and Websites.
So if Matt wants to be right, I will concede!
If he wants to see some nice examples of indexed rel”nofollow” strange keywords I can oblige.Anyway, I am tired talking Google, cause it is an infinite loop.
So you talk mahalo.com and aftervote and I have some other bigger fish to fry!I caught me a whale and I have to reel him in…
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[...] a few times, Google shouldn’t index nofollowed pages (accessible by nofollow links only) or give weight to nofollowed anchortext. After doing a site: query, I noticed that the page isn’t indexed. Google doesn’t even [...]
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Does it really matter that much?
Get a script that lets you find the follow blogs, then you are homefree…or make your own blog network, and use it to make your own mini-net
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Have you got a script that you want to share with us Hypnose?
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This rumour will go round and round for a while yet. Here’s what I believe is the case: nofollows are in fact “followed” buy the spiders, and the target pages are duly indexed. However, no page rank juice is associated with that particular nofollow link.
The problem is in the name of course, they should have called it: “novote” or “dontcount” or something, not nofollow.
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That was interesting… (pss.. not only the articles.. but the comments that follow as well)
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I beleive that Google does disregard most links that are no followed in terms of passing and link value along, but was under the impression that, in some cases, it will allow link equity to flow via a nofollowed link when it’s located on a highly regarded authority site.
Does this still hold true then?
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Question for Cutts! Why does your Blog wield the no-follow attribute when you are supposed to side with all the SEO’s of the world… You’re a great big phoney! lol…
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I think Colin McNulty has summarised it well above:
Here’s what I believe is the case: nofollows are in fact “followed” buy the spiders, and the target pages are duly indexed. However, no page rank juice is associated with that particular nofollow link.
I think Matt Cutts has since clarified these points. The search engines follow them, but page rank doesn’t flow to the source on the link.
Interesting debate as always!
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I have one site I don’t need indexed – its a members backend subdomain, it is only useful while logged in – I’ve nofollowed all the links to it, purely to save bandwidth and the only time the bot has visited in the 6 months its been live is when I accidentally removed the nofollow (oops!), and the visits stopped once I replaced it a few hours later.
(The pages are noindex nofollow, too)
This implies to me that the bots are not using nofollow for discovery, as far as a sample of 1 can show anything, so a follow of the link isn’t to be assumed. Other factors must weigh on the destination.(Dave, typing grey text on a grey background is a bit low contrast
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That’s sad. I really like that one