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Yahoo Ignores Nofollow When Counting Links



Going through my Backlinks on I suddenly realized that it displays all backlinks regardless. There were open links, links with nofollow attribute in a tag as well as links from pages with meta robots nofollow.
This doesn’t mean Yahoo ignores nofollow as it may still exclude it from their link popularity algos but definetly it counts them all and possibly sends their spiders along.
This actually bothers me a lot – do they spider nofollow links too?

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This was written by LZZR. Posted on Wednesday, February 7, 2007, at 9:30 am. Filed under Search Engine Blips. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback.

2 Comments

  1. markus941 wrote:

    Yes, it sends the spiders. The engines have admitted to the misnomer and I think even Cutts agreed that it’s a misleading term since they DO follow it – just not trust it – allegedly ;)

    Nice blog, btw.

    Monday, February 19, 2007 at 10:39 pm | Permalink
  2. LZZR wrote:

    If itis a medical fact, than there is still a lot of value even in nofollow links if you need to get something indexed quickly.
    BTW same about yours :-) went to check your blog and realized that I’ve been reading it just hours before (the post about MyBlogLog issues)

    Monday, February 19, 2007 at 11:56 pm | Permalink

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