{"id":377,"date":"2007-05-25T13:33:45","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T20:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/archives\/377"},"modified":"2014-12-04T13:38:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T20:38:47","slug":"why-is-google-showing-no-followed-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/viruses-and-scams\/why-is-google-showing-no-followed-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Google Showing No Followed links?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone sent me a link to this post<\/a>, and I found it extremely interesting. According to the article, Google is following and factoring “no followed” links for ranking purposes.<\/p>\n

Back in November, “no follow” was given the white stamp of approval by Matt Cutts, and I heard him say with my own ears that Google will not follow them, or assign any Page Rank either.<\/p>\n

The someone (braver than I am!) asked “What if you’re just trying to funnel your own Page Rank?” and Matt replied that it was fine. I wish I could quote him, but his basic response was that they don’t care, and it’s not considered “evil”.<\/p>\n

Well, I have a nofollowed link to this same person that shared the article with me, and it’s been no followed since December 2006.<\/p>\n

Around February, we noticed that this particular link finally stopped being counted in his inbound link count.<\/p>\n

After reading that post today, he noticed that Google was again counting my “no followed link in his link:site.com.<\/p>\n

I know that this isolated incident is hardly conclusive evidence that Google is following no follows, but facts are facts. Google links are being followed and counted again, that’s worth knowing…<\/p>\n

By the way, here’s the guy who sent me the story<\/a> (no followed of course)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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