I was just looking through some BlogRush links and came upon this post. Now, if you read the post it sounds great, W3C supporters get extra SE juice from a PR9 page, right?
Um… no.
And a commentator was 100% correct:
Unfortunately this wouldn’t work because the page has a NOFOLLOW meta tag attribute set.
The admin of the blog came back with this comment:
We appreciate your comment however that is incorrect!
I have links back from the W3C Supporters pages to various sites and they do indeed count and are NOT “nofollow” links. This can be verified with any SEO or backlink software.
All I can say is, “Heh”.
Right at the top of the W3C supporters page is a meta tag for robots:
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="INDEX, NOFOLLOW" />Let alone the W3C says:
6. Will the link from the Supporters page improve my ranking by search engines?
W3C makes no assurances that sites linked from the Supporters program will see improved ranking in search engine results. W3C instructs search engines to ignore links from the Supporters page.
And that is also something the correct commentator said.
While the link counts as a raw backlink for the total link count (nofollows are shown in Google Webmaster Tools and on Yahoo), they pass zero link juice and do not positively affect your rankings.
My guess is their SEO software shows nofollowed links as passing link juice - regardless of the fact they don’t do that. A bit like SEO for Firefox, perhaps. It doesn’t show links as being nofollowed if they are nofollowed in the robots meta tag. And that is one of the biggest problems with modern-day SEOs. They rely on software more than their own head, and if there is something I’ve learned in the past 18 years of using computers (have had them since I was born) it is that software sucks.
If the blogger from that blog happens to read this, I would love to chat with you about why you think the links are being followed, because quite obviously they aren’t. I would love to hear the logic behind it, because this isn’t the first time I’ve seen an “SEO” give bad advice and tell people to buy a $1,000 a year link for SEO that gives no link juice. Let alone you’d think with all the anti-link purchasing stuff going around people wouldn’t even touch paid-links with a 10-foot pole.
Oh yeah, and by the way Urgent SEO. You use GET variables for your permalink URLs. End of argument.
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