rel=nofollow gets followed - Searchen Networks - Internet Advertising & Search Engine Marketing Forum

**clasione** · #1 04-24-2005, 10:14 PM

With lots of talk about this rel=nofollow I decided to do a little investigative work on this... I saw some discussion on www.threadwatch.org about the new nofollow command and exactly what is getting followed and what isn't...

So far I've got some proof the tag being used DOESN'T mean that your link will not get followed and indexed.

After searching the web left and right, I was able to find an instance of rel="nofollow" being used.

If you take a minuete to look at www.theadminzone.com, a busy community on forum administrators, on the lower area of the site, there is a link to:

"The Admin Zone resides on a wickedly fast dedicated server cluster provided by PerfectSQL "

This link has a rel="nofollow" attibute assigned to it....
This is the only hardcoded link to PerfectSQL on the page or found in the HTML.

I'm sure it's not a purchased link, just a gratuity so to speak for providing the hosting services for TAZ and probably results in a decent amount of traffic for PerfectSQL..

Now if you visit PerfectSQL and do a backlink check, www.theadminzone.com is one of the first backlinks listed on MSN, YAHOO and GOOGLE....

The only other possibility is that the banner ad that is on the page which redirects to PerfectSQL via http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/f...splay.php?f=97 is getting picked up as a backlink....

I really doubt it though, because that would mean that all three major engines are all picking up that redirect as a backlink and I find that this would be highly unlikely.

So what is your opinion on this evidence?

Is rel="nofollow" getting followed?

Dominic · #2 05-12-2005, 11:48 AM

But when was the nofollow tag added? Could have been a straight link originally and followed, ... listed as a backlink, .... nofollow tags are invented later,... nofollow tag gets added to the link.

Only way to tell is make a page under only your control and put weird ass unique content on it, link to it from somewhere that gets spidered well with a nofollow tag and search for your weird ass content to see if it gets indexed.

**clasione** · #3 05-12-2005, 11:52 AM

I was really tring to find out when it was added.... I checked archive and everything else I could think of to try and come up with something.... Could get a reasonable date range to inspect...

**andy** · #4 05-31-2005, 09:43 PM

what happens if you just dont use anything and miss that line of code completely

**andy** · #5 08-30-2005, 10:19 PM

i wrote my last comment before i realised what that ment and now i use no rel=nofollow on my affiate codes and Not on friends,
so i appologise for my last comment lol and thanks for making me think about it
Im still feel like a noobie, keeping up is tough now a days because things move fast, this forum is one of my favourite reads though so thanks all you people

**clasione** · #6 08-30-2005, 10:21 PM

You said it... Moving fast isn't the word..... It's tough to keep up....

Glad your here making our community even better...

Dominic · #7 08-31-2005, 01:48 PM

The outcome of all this seems to be that search engines will in many cases follow the nofollow tag, but the link will not benefit from the link in the traditional sense. As search engines are so keen to index as much content as possible, they want to index everything, but want to be able to distinguish between a 'vote' style link and a link that the publisher doesn't 'vouch' for as approved by the site owner / of quality.

**megri** · #8 09-06-2005, 11:06 AM

rel=nofollow tag followed by spider's Strange !!!

just-trying-to-help · #9 09-23-2005, 07:05 PM

If all else fails, use something else.

Searchen

and If you want to be tricky about it,

<P ONCLICK="location.href='http://www.searchen.com'" STYLE="cursor:hand" COLOR="#0000FF" ONMOUSEOVER="MM_displayStatusMsg('http://www.searchen.com');return document.MM_returnValue" ONMOUSEOUT="MM_displayStatusMsg('Done');return document.MM_returnValue">Searchen

Only can be detected not a genuine link if source code is verified.

I use this code all the time for affiliate links as to not pass my hard earned PR to affiliate sites.

Definitely not recommended for links pages though.

Good way to get yourself blacklisted, or even worst. shot.
Or is that visa versa.

**lowster11** · #10 09-23-2005, 07:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andy

i wrote my last comment before i realised what that ment and now i use no rel=nofollow on my affiate codes and Not on friends,
so i appologise for my last comment lol and thanks for making me think about it
Im still feel like a noobie, keeping up is tough now a days because things move fast, this forum is one of my favourite reads though so thanks all you people

I'm still a newbee too, and keeping up is going to be harder, I can't believe all the post's in the last couple of day's. Wonder if it has to do with sigs

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