Yahoo doesnt care about "nofollow" links ?

**Sambooka** · 01-08-2007, 12:16 PM

Dear members

I have one question to ask. I just checked backlinks of one of my sites on yahoo site explorer and noted that

the first site being shown in the results is a site which has my link with a "nofollow" attribute.

Does this mean that yahoo doesnt care about rel="nofollow"? Can anybody else check and confirm this from their

own sites? And what about MSN?
Any suggestions?

Thanks

**business ideas** · 01-08-2007, 04:21 PM

I think only Google uses the rel="nofollow" tag. I have backlinks that are not counted in G because of the tag and they're counted in Yahoo and MSN.

**tlainevool** · 01-08-2007, 10:07 PM

I don't know about what they show in the backlinks, but Yahoo does use the nofollow attribute, see: ysearchblog. com/archives/000069 [dot] html (sorry, not allowed to post link yet)

**imported_Michael** · 01-09-2007, 05:55 AM

This may help - rel=”nofollow” Google, Yahoo and MSN.

- Michael

**Oscar Goldman** · 01-17-2007, 10:42 AM

That's a great explanation. Thanks for the link :thumbup1:

**SEO Portal** · 03-05-2007, 10:35 AM

At this moment Im doing my own test:
http://www.seo-portal.com/testing-th...-1/2007/03/04/

and at this moment Yahoo! has indexed the page, where MSN and Google still don't show anything

**handsome rob** · 03-05-2007, 01:17 PM

nofollow and noindex are not the same thing, and nofollow will not keep links from being counted.