No follow links showing as backlinks

**Tobman** · 25-01-10

Checking some backlinks in Yahoo and I noticed that I have several inlinks from pages where the link was no follow.

I was under the impression that these did not count as backlinks?

I guess my question could be simplified to: is there any value in a no follow link to your website?

Thanks!

**gadget** · 25-01-10

Google et al look for natural link-building and as such, it is important to have some nofollow links. Whilst these are important, they do not pass PR .. although, some of us think they do .. anyway, yes, they have value.

**Tobman** · 26-01-10

Thanks for that. I never considered that I'd need some nofollow links in my backlink profile. Guess some times you can get too focused on follow links! Thanks again.

**aotagain** · 16-02-10

Check there isn't a print page link on the nofollow page to another page where the link is follow.

**ArticleProductions** · 16-02-10

Do follow and no follow does not mean anything ... No follow still gives juice and still increase your rankings. Go post an article on Free Articles Directory | Submit Articles - ArticlesBase.com and you will see.. That article directory has helped many get increased listings and traffic and it is no follow..

James

**shelly1984** · 22-02-10

If a page has 10 outgoing links 6 dofollow links and 4 nofollow links, suppose the page is pr3 then search engines will give Pr values to the nofollow links?

**w3bmaster** · 02-03-10

Well they show and they count in rankings
They don't count for PR but who cares for PR ?

**carleisenstein** · 14-04-10

If you think about it from a search engine point of view, a large proportion of the meaningful links out there these days are nofollow links. Search engines can't afford to disregard them - they'd be missing out on very important ranking signals from social media sites and the like. I personally think that the nofollow flag has an impact on link value but that doesn't mean it doesn't count. Also as gadget observed a good natural link profile will have a good number of nofollows so they probably make your followed links more effective.

**bfxs** · 03-06-10

I noticed this too when I checked backlinks for my site thru Yahoo Site Explorer. Was surprised to find some no-follow link in my list of backlinks. But the sites that they came from were pretty authoritative sites.

**monkeynuts84** · 05-06-10

@carleisenstein - agreed. More and more bloggers are using services that have nofollow on all of their outbounds to link to interesting sites/pages i.e. Twitter. I also read an article recently which stated that the number of webmasters who link to each other is a very small figure (based on research). This leaves the SERPs open to a certain amount of manipulation (if it isn't already!). Nofollow doesn't pass authority but I have found that collecting only nofollow links did get G to find and crawl my site (I was bored with far too much time on my hands

).

At the end of the day, any serious SEO will advise you to build links that are both doffollow and nofollow as it looks 'natural'.

**morkrichard** · 21-06-10

"All these nofollow links are showing on a Google backlink check, does this mean that the backlinks function on the search engine does not necessarily list "algorithm qualifying links" anymore, just any site that links to to that site?"

According to Matt Cutts, Just because a nofollow link shows up when you either run a link: query or look inside Webmaster Tools doesn't mean its counting.

**shelly1984** · 22-06-10

A nofollow link from a high pr blog will help to get traffic not any pr juice will flow from that page.. it may also help you to rank if its a ranking keyword.

**Mogga** · 22-06-10

Does it just mean though that they can't tell the difference between a link and ... well a link?
I suspect google is more than capable of telling the difference but keeping it mixed up keeps us on our toes.

And if they can't differentiate on the fly then that's an issue for them. A well placed link is worth the traffic it brings if not the kudos. And after all you're supposed to think about the end user not google.

**shelly1984** · 22-06-10

Hey Mogga, appreciated..

**angieelve** · 28-06-10

Don’t get hung up on Page Rank and all that other SEO-type stuff. You need to focus on what your visitors want and give it to them. That’s it.
The thing to remember is this: the search engines are not the ones that will buy from you. People are.So write your blog or site for the benefit of people.

Search engines each interpret No Follow in their own way.