Does anyone have anecdotal evidence for or against Google following internal nofollow links? (Irrespective of what they claim)
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Jump to PostWhile Google officially maintains that internal nofollow links are not followed, the reality might occasionally differ. According to anecdotal information from many webmasters and SEO specialists, Google may certainly follow internal nofollow links to some extent in some cases. The extent to which this occurs, however, varies, and it is …
Jump to PostI have none internal Google info , but my understanding always was that having an internal "nofollow" link doesn't tell Google not to crawl it , just not to follow it in the specific context / association / graph with the URL where the "nofollow" link is. Of course (in …
Jump to PostGoogle does follow internal "nofollow" links to some extent. Although "nofollow" typically instructs search engines not to pass PageRank or anchor text influence through a link, Google still crawls and discovers them due to Google's primary goal: indexing and understanding web content comprehensively. When it comes to passing PageRank or …
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