Last week google had a live chat with anyone who could attend, so of course I did. A friend of mine said that he thought google must of took something away from links tagged nofollow, at least the anchor text. I was intrigued by this and at the first chance I got I asked this question…
Chris Hornak – 5:08 pm
Q: Does google take anything from links taged nofollow, for example does it read the anchor text and credit that to the destination?
Susan Moskwa – 5:24 pm (of Google)
A: No, it basically drops that link from our link graph (it ignores it).
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Now I also have a theory this could just be Google telling us what they want us to think.
Good question, you might be right about Google just saying that.