The power of link building - Page 2

Bingo · #11 (**permalink**) 10-14-2007, 02:57 PM

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Originally Posted by webdev

Not sure what you mean by that? You mean in my google webmaster tools?

Yeah sorry I was referring to it by its old name.

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Originally Posted by PeterM

i didnt know that.. is there a way to find out if they do or not?

you mean nofollow?

PeterM · #12 (**permalink**) 10-14-2007, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Gavin

you mean nofollow?

ya

Bingo · #13 (**permalink**) 10-14-2007, 04:44 PM

You can see them if you use the Firefox browser with the ChromEdit Plus Plugin installed. The plugin will highlight the links on the page that use nofollow.

ncaditya · #14 (**permalink**) 10-14-2007, 07:35 PM

Google and other search engines may still be following "no follow" tags. It is unknown to what extent they take links with no follow tags.

Someone should check it "experimentally" by creating a stand alone page and linking to it using the no follow tag from another page that sees frequent search engine spider activities. Using statcounter or something similar we will know if this page sees any spiders.

Max Bear · #15 (**permalink**) 10-15-2007, 04:03 AM

Read Interpretation by the individual search engines

Interpretation by the individual search engines

Google takes "nofollow" literally and does not "follow" the link at all. That is supposedly their official statement, but experiments conducted by SEOs show conflicting results. They show instead that Google does follow the link, but not index the linked-to page, unless it was in Google's index already for other reasons (such as other, non-nofollow links that point to the page).[8] Links with NOFOLLOW are included in the back-links reporting data at Google's Webmaster Central.[9]

PeterM · #16 (**permalink**) 10-15-2007, 05:09 AM

thanks gavin.

webdev · #17 (**permalink**) 10-15-2007, 07:56 AM

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Links with NOFOLLOW are included in the back-links reporting data at Google's Webmaster Central.[9]

I knew google couldn't be ignoring the no-follows because it have an affect on my rankings.

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i didnt know that.. is there a way to find out if they do or not?

In firefox just highlight the link text, click right mouse button, and then click on "View selection source". This will bring up the source page and will highlight the html code of the link.

PeterM · #18 (**permalink**) 10-15-2007, 08:28 AM

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Originally Posted by webdev

I knew google couldn't be ignoring the no-follows because it have an affect on my rankings.

In firefox just highlight the link text, click right mouse button, and then click on "View selection source". This will bring up the source page and will highlight the html code of the link.

I tried this and on my link the code was:
<a href="http://www.forexpm.com" rel="external nofollow">Fred</a>

External nofollow

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