Comments on: Google Indexes Twitter Links

By: Akash Kumar

Akash Kumar — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 07:31:05 +0000

But aren’t the links on twitter nofollow??

By: Steve Porter

Steve Porter — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 13:16:44 +0000

Yes I agree that google most likely indexes no follow links, at least a good percentage of the time, simply because there are too many other issues involved with site relevance as a whole….

By: Lucas

Lucas — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:01:18 +0000

Twitter, my arch nemesis. I know it well… Indexing twitter links won’t make me more likely to use it though.

By: onreact

onreact — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:36:12 +0000

Frankie. I know the difference between meta tags link attributes ;-)

Also make sure to check out the oficial Google stance on nofollow links.
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=96569
It says:
“How does Google handle nofollowed links?

In general, we don’t follow them. This means that Google does not transfer PageRank or anchor text across these links. Essentially, using nofollow causes us to drop the target links from our overall graph of the web. However, the target pages may still appear in our index if other sites link to them without using nofollow, or if the URLs are submitted to Google in a Sitemap.”

Last but not least spidering is NOT indexing but as google says it doesn’t even spider pages via such links.

By: Frankie

Frankie — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:22:50 +0000

From SEOroundtable back in 2006 http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/006926.html:

“Technically, rel=”nofollow” does not mean the search engines won’t spider the page. They will follow the link, spider the page and count the link as a backlink. What rel=”nofollow” means is “don’t trust the link”, i.e. don’t pass PageRank/TrustRank, etc.

The robots meta tag “nofollow” is different, and really does mean “don’t follow links from this page”, and has nothing to do with backlinks or PageRank.”

By: onreact

onreact — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:12:32 +0000

Frankie: It’s not meant to prevent indexing but needs another link to index that page.
In my test there was only one link and this link used nofollow.

By: Frankie

Frankie — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:59:36 +0000

There’s a difference between meta noindex and nofollow and rel=”nofollow”.

rel=”nofollow”, which is what we’re talking about here is designed to do exactly what Eric C. mentions in the first comment – not pass pagerank or link juice.

Where has this idea come from that it’s to prevent page indexing?

By: EdwardNelson

EdwardNelson — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:16:43 +0000

Twitter is most usable social networking site in now times and most important thing is that,google indexing the tweets from twitter user and it can help to improvise ranking and also traffic.

By: J@creamkettle.org.uk

J@creamkettle.org.uk — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:25:03 +0000

Great post. I was not sure about it myself. Was googling to find out more info about this as I read it on an seo forum when I came across your site. I will give it a go and see how quickly my blog gets indexed.

By: Orik_Ibad

Orik_Ibad — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:03:12 +0000

I think that Google indexes all no follow links. There have been a lot of tests about this on the net. SOme bloggers even practiced that they got link juice and search enigne ranking by commenting on no follow blogs.