NOFOLLOW AND DOFOLLOW - Lets clear this up for everyone!

[gordi555]

Ok guys, think it's time to clear up what NOFOLLOW and DOFOLLOW is all about.

I'll ask some questions and if everyone could answer all questions (or whatever you can contribute to) in the reply it will help countless amounts of people out!

Here we go...

1. Does Google count a NOFOLLOW link as a real link?
2. Does Google crawl and/or index a page that points to the website using NOFOLLOW?
3. Would Google find a website if it only had ONE incoming link that was NOFOLLOW?
4. Does Google pass any PageRank etc to a NOFOLLOW link?
5. Do NOFOLLOW links help sites to get indexed quicker?
6. If DOFOLLOW is used, it's just like having a normal link without NOFOLLOW right?
7. What Search Engines use these methods and follows these rules?

Thanks for all your help people. Hopefully people will find this post via Google and it answers all their questions. Please add as much relevant information to this post as possible. Hopefully at the end we can do a summary of it in a PDF or sticky post etc.

[321sitemonitor.com]

I would consider replying you in points-

1. Yes G consider NO-Follow links as a real link.
2. Once your link is found, Google will even index it with that no-follow link. BUt it will totally depend on your site content and niche.
3. Yes, Google can easily find and can crawl your website completely with a single link.
4. As per recent rules, G do not pass any advantage to PR with no-follow links. But there might be some changes in this as i am not sure.
5. There is no such rule. And it is only with Google or their staff members as to how much weight it gives to no-follow links while ranking your website.
6. Do-follow is considered while calculating PR as well as in search term ranking.
7. Working of every search engine is different. To what i have discussed above is all considering G. Yahoo and Bing have different approach towards ranking.

[himanuzo]

Google, Yahoo, Bing and other search engines do not count the nofollow. If you want to build backlinks for SERP (search engine ranking position), please focus the dofollow only.

[veotis]

Originally Posted by himanuzo

Google, Yahoo, Bing and other search engines do not count the nofollow. If you want to build backlinks for SERP (search engine ranking position), please focus the dofollow only.

That is totally incorrect. Check any site that has a decent amount of links pointing to it and you'll find No Follow links being counted by Yahoo.

[Hafsoh]

Originally Posted by gordi555

Ok guys, think it's time to clear up what NOFOLLOW and DOFOLLOW is all about.

I'll ask some questions and if everyone could answer all questions (or whatever you can contribute to) in the reply it will help countless amounts of people out!

Here we go...

1. Does Google count a NOFOLLOW link as a real link?
2. Does Google crawl and/or index a page that points to the website using NOFOLLOW?
3. Would Google find a website if it only had ONE incoming link that was NOFOLLOW?
4. Does Google pass any PageRank etc to a NOFOLLOW link?
5. Do NOFOLLOW links help sites to get indexed quicker?
6. If DOFOLLOW is used, it's just like having a normal link without NOFOLLOW right?
7. What Search Engines use these methods and follows these rules?

Thanks for all your help people. Hopefully people will find this post via Google and it answers all their questions. Please add as much relevant information to this post as possible. Hopefully at the end we can do a summary of it in a PDF or sticky post etc.

1. No
2. Yes Most people often confuse “noindex” with “nofollow.” In order for a link not show on the results page of SE, the meta robots tag with the “noindex” attribute, <meta name=”robots” content=”noindex” /> has to be used.
This meta tag tell search engines that they should not index that page, so it worth include it on the search results.
3. Google will find it only that link juice will not be passed to the link.
4. No
5. Yes, A link that is not nofollowed is known as dofollow link. A Dofollow link is a link crawlable by search engine. Dofollow is not a tag, its an attribute you simply don’t nofollow a link if you want it be dofollowed.
6.
* Google : The Googlebot does not follow that link. It states that google spider takes “nofollow” literally and does not “follow” the link at all.
* Yahoo : If we find a link we make it available to our algorithms to find new content, whether it has a ‘no follow’ attribute or not. However, if the ‘no follow’ attribute is present, it means that no attribution is given to the target from the source of the link. They follows the link, but excludes it from their ranking calculation
* Ask.com : We have never officially supported No Follow, so your questions don’t apply to our crawler. They totally ignores the attribute.

[jazbo]

Apart from not passing pagerank, it appears google attributes more "normality" to nofollowed links that they are letting on, which kinda answers all the questions in one go!

[4morereferrals]

Many social bookmarking sites are "NoFollow". they primarily exist as SE Bot Food. If the spiders/bots didnt crawl or follow NoFollow attributed links at all - there's a metric ton of totally worthless social bookmarks sites out there.

[wetday]

the only value that I really see in nofollow links are from people clicking the link to visit your website. There are so many opportunities for dofollow links that I do not advise you to waste time on nofollow sites!