No Follow Links showing in WMT

Stationery-Direct · Jan 16, 2013

Just a quick question, in my WMT I have links in from sites showing that are No Follow Links, is this supposed to happen, I would have thought they would not have shown?

I trust adding the rel="nofollow" tag to links in is the best we so that link juice isn't passed to my site??

Stationery-Direct · Jan 16, 2013

That's not actually what I asked, I know what they are. I am asking if links that are 'no follow' should show in WMT under 'links in from other sites'?

terryuk · Jan 16, 2013

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=96569

Essentially, using nofollow causes us to drop the target links from our overall graph of the web.

Say one thing and do another

Stationery-Direct · Jan 16, 2013

Many thanks

webgeek · Jan 16, 2013

Funnily enough, nofollow links can result in websites ranking in search results.

As the grand poobah Matt Cutts pointed out, those nofollow links don't pass page rank but they can pass anchortext, and can result in rankings improvements.

I'd expect them to show up because Google tracks inbound links first, then tweaks the values of them, many times for many reasons, second.

OldWelshGuy · Jan 16, 2013

Google have always listed nofollow links, they also list links that no longer exist on that page, despite the cache date being ages after the link was removed.

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