Rel NoFollow up
- Posted by Badi Jones on August 23rd, 2005 - Comment on this Post »
My last little article was about modifying FireFox to detect nofollow links. I hope you all had fun doing that, and are enjoying the results. I know I am.
Today I wanted to discuss the nofollow attribute again.
I left a comment on Matt Cutts blog the other day (scroll down a bit to see the comment). He uses a WordPress blog. Just like this site. If you haven’t noticed, any links in comments have the rel=”nofollow” attribute included in them. Its to deter comment spam. Well, When I was checking my backlinks today, I found that Matt Cutts site showed up as linking to me. The backlinks analyzer uses Yahoo to search for backlinks, because for the most part Yahoo shows all backlinks (including nofollow links).
I looked for the link in Google and MSN, but it wasn’t there. I just wonder how Yahoo is handling these links. Are they indexing them, but then discounting them? Comments welcome.
Here’s a link that I meant to add. Its from Yahoo Search Blog. They say that they support the rel=nofollow attribute.
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August 23rd, 2005 at 10:02 am
nofollow is only a google thing isn’t it? don’t believe (though I could well have missed it) yahoo have ever said they would pay attention to nofollow
August 24th, 2005 at 4:12 pm
All 3 major SE’s are supposed to be using the rel=nofollow.
See Yahoo here.
http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000069.html