NoFollow Links – Not really, Google Blog Search Bots can Still Find You
Even kids know that Google and other search engines does not transfer PageRank or anchor text across Nofollow links. But to my amazement, Google Blog search bot can still find you via no follow links.
A week ago, Soumen posted a comment on an article at Makeuseof.com. The website name field is nofollowed but while I performed a search with the link operator on Google blog search, the link was eminent.
And here is a screenshot of the comment along with the page source
Honestly, I don’t know the exact reason of how the bots found our blog through that “Nofollow” link. I think they (bots) are intelligent enough to figure out which links to crawl and which links to ignore. A point to note here is that I had commented on the same website earlier but those links were not crawled. Here is what Google have to say on Nofollow links.
Have you faced similar situation before? Have you seen that bots are discovering your website through a Nofollow link? Share your ideas through a comment so that we all can learn from you.
No one can understand the logic behind the Google’s algorithm and strategy behind that.. It sometimes behaves weird.. :D
Thats really a good find man! Now SEO may take a completely different meaning. I will surely look forward to get more information regarding this issue, very useful info!
@Rajesh thats true, and we are happy until it screws us sometimes :P . Given the case our feed count has suddenly dropped by 120 counts……feedburner aka Google screwed up this time.
@Tech-Freak Stuff Hey bro, that is a bit early to predict the change. Because as you know, may be that was a temporary flaw in the Google algorithm. Though, if its not, you & me along with all other bloggers will be greatly delighted. :)
I have noticed this for my blog too… But it goes away from the index after a day. A false crawl maybe…
@ Soumen – Read this recently, the Feedburner count drop is becoz on some days feedburner fails to fetch the no. of readers on a particular channel (mostly friendfeed) due to some internal error.
@Debajyoti: After some days, those links goes away because Google Blog search bots has discovered that link already. If you go to your Google webmaster tools account, you will still see that link pointing to your blog. Thanks for the comment