Nofollowed internal backlinks in Webmaster Tools
On some sites that I work on, we have been leveraging the whole concept of nofollowing internal links to help with page rank flow for the last six months or so. It was even confirmed to be a legit option a few months ago by Matt Cutts.
Well, in one of the more recent updates to Google Webmaster tools they added a link for “Pages with internal links”. In there they have some cool information about what pages are linking to which. When browsing through this I discovered some of the footer links to privacy policy, support etc are still showing up with hundreds of backlinks. It appears that at least in this tool, they are treating the internal no-followed links the same as a normal link.
Have you experienced this? Do you think this is just a different view, or are they really ignoring internal nofollows?
- Jim
The official claim is that links with the rel=nofollow attribute do not influence the search engine rankings of the target page. In addition to Google, Yahoo and MSN also support the rel=nofollow attribute.
i think it helps indexing
Comment by John Illnes — April 10, 2008 @ 12:58 am