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Originally Posted by justo_tx
How so? If the google bot doesn't spider the link it doesn't offer any benefit aside from an actual person that sees the link and decides to follow it. I reread up on nofollow before responding in case my understanding was (more often than not) off. I pulled the following quote from a Matt Cutts response to a question concerning nofollow:
for Google, nofollow'ed links are dropped out of our link graph; we don't even use such links for discovery.
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SEOmoz | Matt Cutts on Nofollow, Links-Per-Page and the Value of Directories |
One, you're listening to a quote from Matt Cutts. Two, you're listening to a quote from Matt Cutts.
Three, if nofollow links dont mean shit and aren't counted at all - why does a link from wikipedia actually help ranking? Pure dumb luck?
Edit: Four, google doesn't even spider nofollow links? Complete, and utter, bullshit. They follow every fucking link on that page inside and out.