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Google Counts nofollow backlinks

by yommys01
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Seems google now counts nofollow backlinks.

see the full article here http://arindamchakraborty.com/google...-nofollow-link

I think the guy is right. I have notice that Google is counting lot of links from yahoo answers for me even though yahoo answers is nofollow.

what do warriors think?
#backlinks #counts #google #nofollow
  • Profile picture of the author abhi1
    Google does counts nofollow links. It's just nofollow links ain't any good for pagerank if that what you're asking
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  • Profile picture of the author nelson32
    it depends upon the niche ..if niche is too competitive then yahoo answers links would not effect much,once a site follows nofollow attribute then it sticks to nofollow only and doesnt effect any page rank/.....but for traffic purposes yahoo can be gr8....
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  • Profile picture of the author Smokey_Joe
    Well, the article builds its main argument on thin air. The fact that a nofollow backlink appeared in webmaster tools proves absolutely nothing. From what I have read until now, I gather that nofollow links are in fact followed by SEs, but do not pass any pagerank or anchor text to the page they are pointing too. Also, how can one prove their point by Matt Cutts' facial expression as if he holds some big google secret back? That's not serious.
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonsmmm
    mat cutts wrote a while back that nofollow was no longer used to affect the flow of pagerank, and that it had been like that for over a year but no one had realised it.
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  • Profile picture of the author metros
    Cutts mentioned few weeks ago on his interview, NoFollow wont really change that much now days as Google seems to get inside and some times, Give a juice..
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  • Profile picture of the author mindrich
    If we are doubt google won't give credit to the increase of pagerank, but I'm confident that Yahoo won't matter if it's nofollow or not. So, still we're hitting two birds!
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    • Profile picture of the author austinjames
      Its good news for me as I spend sometimes answering some of question I really know about.

      good! thanks for sharing.
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  • Profile picture of the author EMGhb
    I don't understand how the link can be counted without the PR.

    Here's the way I learned it: A backlink counts as a vote for your site in the category of that particular anchor text/keyword phrase, and the PR is the measure or magnitude of that vote. How does Google weigh the vote if the PR doesn't come into play? And if the anchor text isn't taken into account, then there isn't a "category" for the vote either.
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  • Profile picture of the author archanaadevi
    PR is not important while google counts the backlinks. But google doesn't count the no follow links. It can counts only do follow.

    Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Edward K.
    Do Twitter links count as backlinks? I have not seen Google do that yet.
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  • Profile picture of the author Zukario
    google also counts twitter links too.
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  • Profile picture of the author timpears
    Think about this; if you were able to get 1,000 links for your site or page. If none of them were nofollow, wouldn't that be a little unnatural? So does it really matter if the links you get are dofollow or nofollow? You need both for them to be natural and if they are not natural, then Google will notice that something is up. One may be worth more than the other, or maybe not. Only Google knows for sure, and they ain't telling. So in my mind, you need both.
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    • Profile picture of the author chandan_dutta
      Originally Posted by timpears View Post

      Think about this; if you were able to get 1,000 links for your site or page. If none of them were nofollow, wouldn't that be a little unnatural? So does it really matter if the links you get are dofollow or nofollow? You need both for them to be natural and if they are not natural, then Google will notice that something is up. One may be worth more than the other, or maybe not. Only Google knows for sure, and they ain't telling. So in my mind, you need both.
      I am agree with Timpears. Nofollow links are needed to look natural in the eyes of Google. Even I too saw links got counted from Yahoo answer and even Mix(Mix is nofollow)
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  • Profile picture of the author keenstyle1
    Are there any other tools like seodigger which is no longer around and has been re-placed by semrush which isn't as good. Anyone know of a similar one?
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