Comments on: All forums should nofollow external links http://www.forumdr.com/all-forums-should-nofollow-external-links/461/ Practical Advice for Running an Online Forum Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:16:02 +0000 hourly 1 By: Admin http://www.forumdr.com/all-forums-should-nofollow-external-links/461/comment-page-1/#comment-3036 Admin Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:49:50 +0000 http://www.forumdr.com/?p=461#comment-3036 How did you determine that the search engines follow nofollow'd links? Did you read the statements from the individual search engines in the article. Google do list nofollow'd in webmasters tool (they have admitted that), but have also said that this does not mean they follow them. How did you determine that the search engines follow nofollow’d links? Did you read the statements from the individual search engines in the article. Google do list nofollow’d in webmasters tool (they have admitted that), but have also said that this does not mean they follow them.

]]> By: Kris http://www.forumdr.com/all-forums-should-nofollow-external-links/461/comment-page-1/#comment-2999 Kris Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:46:34 +0000 http://www.forumdr.com/?p=461#comment-2999 It is more than obvious that every search engine follow nofollowed links. It is more than obvious that every search engine follow nofollowed links.

]]> By: Admin http://www.forumdr.com/all-forums-should-nofollow-external-links/461/comment-page-1/#comment-2032 Admin Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:53:04 +0000 http://www.forumdr.com/?p=461#comment-2032 Just an added note on the nofollow attribute. Google has started showing some nofollow backlinks in Google webmaster tools, leading some to speculate that they are crawling and using nofollow'd links. Matt Cutts, from Google clarified this by saying during a webmaster chat: "we don't follow nofollow links, but we do include nofollow links in the webmaster console just to give webmasters a full picture of all the stuff that's linking to them." The transcript of the chat is here: http://www.jaankanellis.com/google-chat.wcf Just an added note on the nofollow attribute. Google has started showing some nofollow backlinks in Google webmaster tools, leading some to speculate that they are crawling and using nofollow’d links.

Matt Cutts, from Google clarified this by saying during a webmaster chat:
“we don’t follow nofollow links, but we do include nofollow links in the webmaster console just to give webmasters a full picture of all the stuff that’s linking to them.”
The transcript of the chat is here: http://www.jaankanellis.com/google-chat.wcf

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