Two posts in one day--your lucky day! This is a brief post to quell some questions and rumors on how Google handles the nofollow tag.

If you recall all three major search engines said they'd start obeying rel="nofollow" tags inserted into links. This was supposed to be a major method of combating spam. Essentially nofollow means the webmaster does not 'vouch' for the link and as such no 'PR juice' is sent via the link.

Most blogs have the featured automatically installed for all blog comments. The question for the longest time was: "Does Google follow the link but not count it? Or do they simply not follow the link?"

The answer from the mouth of Google is here. Google will NOT follow any link with nofollow attributes unless it is found elsewhere.

Case closed.

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