How Search Engines Treat No Follow : No Follow Doesn't Mean No Index

Google, Yahoo and Ask.com sound off on their treatment of the No Follow attribute and clear webmaster confusion that links from sites such as Wikipedia using this attribute have no value.

I'm not sure about how Yahoo! is treating the rel="nofollow" attribute. I think they should not index the resulting link. I understand why they would, but indirectly it will give attribution to the page, giving spam commenters a reason to spam a new site on the unsuspecting blog. Indirectly, they are encouraging spammers, and black hat SEOs to keep doing the same thing that is breaking the web. Google's approach is the right one.I personally hate all the SEO stuff. People are all url keyword stuffing, even Digg. The problem is that since everyone else is doing it, I have to do it, you have to do it, it makes ranking sites error prone, except for sites like Digg. Crawlers have become almost useless since the advent of blogs. There is no way a crawler can keep up with the pace of blogging, so everyone has to ping someone when their site is updated.Something has to give here. I'm just not sure what its going to be.



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