On 17/08/05, Juliano Ravasi Ferraz <ml(a)juliano.info> wrote:
> Rowan Collins wrote:
> > No, according to that link "When Google sees the attribute
> > rel="nofollow" on hyperlinks, those links won't get any credit when we
> > rank websites in our search results."
>
> According to the link, right before the sentence you quoted:
>
> "...but you can also instruct Googlebot not to crawl individual links by
> adding rel="nofollow" to a hyperlink."
This aspect of the "standard" is really ambiguous in all the
announcements I've seen [I just read the original Google, Yahoo! and
MSN blog entries], and many many people are stating with conviction
that it *doesn't* stop the page being spidered. After all, the stated
purpose is to mark an link to another site as "untrusted", not to mark
an in-site link as not suitable for crawling.
But this may be a usable side-effect for URLs which won't be linked to
anywhere else on the Web (one thing that's very clear from what I've
read is that no *negative* rank or *delisting* is interpretted from
the link). I guess the only way to find out is to add it to a few
links of this sort and see if they do in fact get spidered...
--
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]
