February 7, 2007
Yahoo Ignores Nofollow When Counting Links
BLIP
Going through my Backlinks on Yahoo Site Explorer 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?
tags: blip, lzzr, seo, yahoo, yahoo site explorer, backlink, backlinks, link, link popularity, meta, nofollow, robots, spider
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Posted by LZZR under Search Engine Blips |
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.
Comment by markus941 — February 19, 2007 @ 10:39 pm
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.
went to check your blog and realized that I’ve been reading it just hours before (the post about MyBlogLog issues)
BTW same about yours
Comment by LZZR — February 19, 2007 @ 11:56 pm