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Once again about rel=”nofollow”…
March 17th, 2007 by 
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I know that I must know that you all know what nofollow means 
NOFOLLOW tag tells Google not to follow the links on a specific page
At the same time it’s high time to check again whether this parameter doesn’t work in ALL cases. I mean Google Webmaster Tools and its service to find out all kind of links: inbound and outbound ones.
I have looked through some of my projects’ details in WebTools when I stumbled upon an interesting thing - WebTools SHOW INBOUND LINKS THAT ARE TAGGED BY REL=”NOFOLLOW”! How on Earth can this be?! 
I started to dig further and found a bunch of links that “recommend” my projects from web 2.0 social bookmarking networks! How should I interpret this fact? Are such links still crawlerable? Do the robots follow and reindex pages? Oh, the issue about PageRank is the most burning one, am I right?
Nevermind, we should wait for the next TBPR Update - PR will be out of question then. Nevertheless, am I the only one who have noticed this fact or not? Is it a bug? Or may be Webmaster Tools doesn’t … well, it is impossible. Google can not contradict itself. Should I ask M.Cutts directly?
Posted in SEO issues, Web 2.0/Social networks | 
June 5th, 2007 at 2:53 am
Yeah, this is a wide known fact exactly. This issue has been raised repeatedly by many SEO forums. So Google robot looks at “nofollow”, but does it’s business nevertheless.