Does Google follow a 'no follow' link?

bizworld

Google does not follow Dofollow liks.........

13 years ago

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Beverly

Google does not follow Dofollow liks.........

But they count all links for SEO purposes? Not just no follow, right?

12 years ago

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robertman11

They say they don't but I've seen them crawl through a nofollow link before. I'm sure they store this data and the nofollow tag just diminishes the link value.

12 years ago

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Beverly

They say they don't but I've seen them crawl through a nofollow link before. I'm sure they store this data and the nofollow tag just diminishes the link value.

The thing that concerns me most is if they're following no follow links onto payment/customer pages where sensitive financial information is shared. Then again, maybe they follow and just don't include such pages in the index. Cause it's not like you can find any of these pages in Google? Or, can you?

12 years ago

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Tommy Matalino

Google does not follow Dofollow liks.........

What? Does not follow the DoFollow link? I think you got your SEO wrong.

They say they don't but I've seen them crawl through a nofollow link before. I'm sure they store this data and the nofollow tag just diminishes the link value.

Yeah. I have also noticed this a couple of times in the past on some of my links.
They just don't add value or pass link juice.

12 years ago

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Beverly

What? Does not follow the DoFollow link? I think you got your SEO wrong.

Possibly he meant they don't crawl no-follow links. But not even sure as some people say they do. Not sure if the pages being linked to, using no follow links receive any pr but Google likely crawls them or even counts those pages for purposes of backlinks.

12 years ago

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crunkatlanta

helpful..

12 years ago

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Tommy Matalino

Possibly he meant they don't crawl no-follow links. But not even sure as some people say they do. Not sure if the pages being linked to, using no follow links receive any pr but Google likely crawls them or even counts those pages for purposes of backlinks.

Google "follows" the nofollow link, but no PR juice is passed, and it doesn't index it unless it's a previously indexed page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow

12 years ago

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sam986

No follow links are helpful when placing links to an affiliate or advertiser site as they don't pass link juice to the other site. And, they can be very helpful when placed on pages leading to payment pages, login pages and membership areas to protect confidential information. But there is some indication that Google follows ALL links regardless but those pages are just not published on Google's search engines. With that in mind, should we still use no follow links? Are they even relevant?

Google follows both no-follow and do-follow links.
But Google gives the first priority to Do-follow links.

12 years ago

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Tommy Matalino

Google follows both no-follow and do-follow links.
But Google gives the first priority to Do-follow links.

You are wrong. Google DOESN'T follow them. Read more:
http://support.google.com/webmaste...amp;answer=96569

In general, we don't follow them. This means that Google does not transfer PageRank or anchor text across these links. Essentially, using nofollow causes us to drop the target links from our overall graph of the web.

12 years ago

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Beverly

You are wrong. Google DOESN'T follow them. Read more:
http://support.google.com/webmaste...amp;answer=96569

So they don't index the page being linked to. But do they count that link as a backlink? We're all assuming they ignore the link. But it's possible, Google sees the links and counts them but just doesn't follow the link onto the next page.

12 years ago

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Tommy Matalino

So they don't index the page being linked to. But do they count that link as a backlink? We're all assuming they ignore the link. But it's possible, Google sees the links and counts them but just doesn't follow the link onto the next page.

Any link point to your site is a backlink. That's a fact.
But Google Backlink is a different thing as it only count dofollow links.

Maybe a few nofollow depending on the quality of that site, as I have seen some nofollow sites when I checked my backlink a few months ago.

12 years ago

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JohnWilson

Well, I might falls on the camp of thought that even if it might have impact on crawl priorisation the impact will be so insignificant that our resources can be better spent on some other areas instead of optimising the nofollow links.

12 years ago

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Beverly

Any link point to your site is a backlink. That's a fact.
But Google Backlink is a different thing as it only count dofollow links.

Maybe a few nofollow depending on the quality of that site, as I have seen some nofollow sites when I checked my backlink a few months ago.

Google does a very good job of being contradictory about what they consider a 'backlink' for search engine rankings as they don't want anyone to exploit their search engine.

12 years ago

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annaonweb

Google have many algorithm for maintain any site's ranking on Google search engine .

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nancy

Yes it is a good way to exchange links with each other if you have useful suggestion for ranking up the sites please share with your all fellows as many of us like me wants to increase the traffic on our own sites.

12 years ago

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johnmith

No follow links are helpful when placing links to an affiliate or advertiser site as they don't pass link juice to the other site. And, they can be very helpful when placed on pages leading to payment pages, login pages and membership areas to protect confidential information. But there is some indication that Google follows ALL links regardless but those pages are just not published on Google's search engines. With that in mind, should we still use no follow links? Are they even relevant?

Why not Google will prefer the both No-follow & Do-follow links..Why because then they will form an "Link Juice".

'Link Juice' can be called a thing that is considered by Google to rank websites. Link Juice is very important aspect taken into consideration by Google for ranking a website.

12 years ago

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swapnil

Google does index both the no-follow and the do-follow links but does not pass link juice to the nofollow links, no-follow tag does not allow the spider to visit the linked pages but it is assessed as a backlink, though giving less value but yes No-follow links are valuable too, while do-follow links are indexed as well as bot can freely travel and parse those links and visit the pages they are linked to, so it allows spreading of link juice so, do-follow links are more valuable than No-follow, but then it can not be said that No-follow links do not have value while giving PR.
let us take an example that can be lively.
A man goes into the showroom where he sees a diamond ring through a sheet of transparent glass, and he can have a look at it just from the other side of the glass he can not parse that glass and touch it because the glass is in the middle - similarly, Google indexes the nofollow links, but bots are not allowed to parse through them to visit what is the anchor text linked to.
While the similar man goes into some other exhibition, where they have kept the similar ring for display and he is allowed to touch it and have a good look at it, this is better explanation for dofollow - the spiders index the link as well as parse through the followed links to see the content linked to it.
I hope this may get the confusion clear guys.

12 years ago

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Beverly

So the search engine spider sees the no follow link, it's not invisible? And, for that reason it's counted as a backlink. Thanks for the clarification.

12 years ago

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GinaCovey

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12 years ago

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swapnil

So the search engine spider sees the no follow link, it's not invisible? And, for that reason it's counted as a backlink. Thanks for the clarification.

Any time Beverly, Happy to help because forum and its members are ultimately to help each other to solve their doubts and queries and help each other right?

12 years ago

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Chintan

Dofollow & Nofollow are combination of backlinks. It's correct that google does love dofollow links than nofollow but having a nofollow links would be like natural promotion for your website.

12 years ago

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aneesh

I agree with Beverly !

Thanks for the info about Google Beverly.

12 years ago

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lioz

google accepted both

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Beverly

Google does index both the no-follow and the do-follow links but does not pass link juice to the nofollow links, no-follow tag does not allow the spider to visit the linked pages but it is assessed as a backlink, though giving less value but yes No-follow links are valuable too, while do-follow links are indexed as well as bot can freely travel and parse those links and visit the pages they are linked to, so it allows spreading of link juice so, do-follow links are more valuable than No-follow, but then it can not be said that No-follow links do not have value while giving PR.
let us take an example that can be lively.
A man goes into the showroom where he sees a diamond ring through a sheet of transparent glass, and he can have a look at it just from the other side of the glass he can not parse that glass and touch it because the glass is in the middle - similarly, Google indexes the nofollow links, but bots are not allowed to parse through them to visit what is the anchor text linked to.
While the similar man goes into some other exhibition, where they have kept the similar ring for display and he is allowed to touch it and have a good look at it, this is better explanation for dofollow - the spiders index the link as well as parse through the followed links to see the content linked to it.
I hope this may get the confusion clear guys.

Thanks! That's an excellent example. And, it makes sense. They can see the links. These no follow links are no invisible. But they can't travel the links. I've noticed that I get good ranking even with no follow links being in the majority of links that I have.

12 years ago

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karlosamPlus

Lot of people are asking what the difference is between do-follow sites and no-follow sites and what does this really means anyway! First of all it means they there are two kinds of sites and that they will affect your own links in a different way when you link to them.
When you link your site to a do-follow site the html link code will be a regular anchor text html link. In the case of a no-follow the no follow html tag will be added within the link and you would not get a link back to your site from this site.
If you link your site to a do-follow site the search engines will acknowledge your link and you will get what is called a backlink to your site. If you link your site to a no-follow site the search engines will not acknowledge the link as a backlink to your site.
What does this mean for you?
If you want to build backlinks to your site and get a higher PageRank you need to make sure that you are linking to do-follow sites, which includes most high ranking sites with a high PageRank and high authority.

12 years ago

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deepak2789

Google does not give the privilege to nofollow links in comparison of dofollow links. No follow links only helps to increase website traffic or nothing.

12 years ago

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cukienham

Where is the exact definitions of NO-follow, DO-follow links? Back links? Link juices?

12 years ago

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cukienham

Once know the precise meaning of those terms, do not fluctuate ideas for struggle.

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deepak2789

Once know the precise meaning of those terms, do not fluctuate ideas for fucking struggle.

Do you have the exact definition of all those terms you have defined in your previous post?

12 years ago

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Tommy Matalino

Google does not give the privilege to nofollow links in comparison of dofollow links. No follow links only helps to increase website traffic or nothing.

So, you say nofollow links are useless? You need diversity.
Wouldn't it raise a red flag on Google if your links are all dofollow? Having a good mix is also a good thing. Besides, traffic is still traffic.

12 years ago

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shawnalbert

To get this complex thing explained in simple words i say "we all are from different regions of the earth but we dont eat or drink one thing all of the time", Every thing goes by some matrix/numbers/equation if we are talking about technology, people think that google is only runing 2 or 3 algorithms to check the authority of website and then rank the site on the analysis of those algos, Matt Cutts Said "You have no idea what kind of tools google use" if you focus on "tools" it clearly indicates there are alot of tools they use in google to analyze a website, and as per my first simple explanation even if you told the google crawler "no follow" before your link then why your links end up getting crawled by simple backlink checker sites and then listed on those site etc Backlinkwatch, So if small site of backlink checker can list your "No Follow Backlinks" in their index what you think about google then ? wont it be using that no follow links let us say some X site has 2000 do follow and 500 no follow, there is a disturbance in that equation isn't it? So solving the equation you need to know understand other different terms to be applied to your solution, hope this helps

12 years ago

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Beverly

So, you say nofollow links are useless? You need diversity.
Wouldn't it raise a red flag on Google if your links are all dofollow? Having a good mix is also a good thing. Besides, traffic is still traffic.

I've read where Google can see the no follow links and count them as a backlink but they don't follow the link to the other site. It's like they're looking at the link through a glass. These links are not invisible but they're just not traveled. That's the theory.

12 years ago

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Corzhens

I guess this issue of the no-follow links have been resolved in another discussion that search engines are checking on the links regardless of the no-follow and do-follow. From what I know the default of the sites are the do-follow and the no-follow is just a setting made by the site admin or owner for his own purposes. If Google will waive that option then that is good for the community.

6 years ago

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SEOClerks

Does Google follow a 'no follow' link?