On 17/08/05, Juliano Ravasi Ferraz ml@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...