Following my earlier post about Wikipedia: the Dead End on the Information Highway, after they added the nofollow attribute to their external links, I decided to launch a test to see whether the engines are really respecting the nofollow attribute. So I created a page optimized for a non-existent word, with a single link pointing to it. Let’s see if the page gets into Google’s index, and how long it takes. I’ll keep you posted.
Testing the NoFollow Attribute
February 5, 2007 by
I am eager for an update on this experiment. A lot of folks say no follow stops page rank from passing on but it still counts as a backlink for SEO purposes.