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Webmaster Tools Shows Nofollow Links

Google Webmaster Tools recently added the neat capability of seeing a good solid list of inbound links to your site and allowing you to download the entire list in a spreadsheet file. However, we recently noticed that these links include links from Yahoo! Answers.
So here’s the kicker. These links are NoFollowed. So Google is showing NoFollowed links in Webmaster Tools. So is Google providing link credit for these links? I doubt it. But it’s really interesting that they are showing them at all.

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Eric Enge

Eric Enge is part of the Digital Marketing practice at Perficient. He designs studies and produces industry-related research to help prove, debunk, or evolve assumptions about digital marketing practices and their value. Eric is a writer, blogger, researcher, teacher, and keynote speaker and panelist at major industry conferences. Partnering with several other experts, Eric served as the lead author of The Art of SEO.

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