Need Your Help with Google and NoFollow Links

JBatman said:

Ok, hopefully someone here can answer this, I can't post links yet so w3 is actually www:


How does GoogleBot process NoFollow links? Does GoogleBot follow html validation or not? For instance if a link has an invalid attribute will GoogleBot still process it or does it disregard the link entirely?

Example:

Flickr changed their outgoing links/comments, etc to NoFollow.... which looks like this now after you submit a link:

Code:

<a href="w3.MySite.com" rel="nofollow">MySite</a>

BUT they still allow for the "rel" attr when posting links in comments and such and if you add it into your link and post it comes out like this:

Code:

<a href="w3.MySite.com" rel="********" rel="nofollow">MySite</a>

Which correct me if I'm wrong but duplicate attributes is invalid, so does it get thrown out by Google or what?

If I use the Firefox NoFollow plugin the link shows up as normal (blue) instead of red for nofollow

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evamenders said:

Hey JBatman
have you read Matt Cutts on Nofollow, Links-Per-Page and the Value of Directories about it
-http://www.seomoz.org/blog/questions-answers-with-googles-spam-guru

I do not understand why you want a nofollow ????
only 1 follow is enought

do it easy internet is Maths easy like 1 -0
no more
always human want to do it stronger
that give bots funny

good luck

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JBatman said:

hmm... I think I may try that idea, thanks! So far any tool/plugin I scan that comment with on Flickr reports it as being a valid outgoing link; however, I don't know how Google feels about it.

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oldenstylehats said:

If I had to take a guess, I'd say they've prepared for the possibility of disagreeing rel attributes, but there is only one way. I'll do a test too and we can compare results.

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