Nofollow Links: Does Google Count Them as Backlinks?



In this episode of Ask Google Webmasters, John Mueller talks about the rel-nofollow link attribute and whether or not Google counts nofollow links as backlinks in Search Console.

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26 thoughts on “Nofollow Links: Does Google Count Them as Backlinks?”

  1. Our website have so many toxic backlink. So, we take action to import at disavow in google.
    a) Is it help to get away google penalty and can’t get the lost ranking back?
    b) Is there a way for remove bad link manually?
    c) How can we monitor for backlink remove after import at disavow?

  2. Hello, my site is Flirt.com and I see a massive drop in Search traffic from Google (lost 30% of daily traffic). This was a drop over the weekend and we have not made any changes to the site. It is useful, high quality, answers the user's question, well-optimized due to all Google requirements. What are the reasons? How can this problem be resolved? Please advice! We need your assistance!

  3. 1) Linking companies URL ; will this help ?
    2) Multiple backlinks from same website : will this help ?
    3) which is good Backlinks – Subdomain Vs main domain

  4. Hi John

    You state they do not transfer Page Rank, but if you use "Do Follow" will this take any value from the original page?

    Example:
    I have a blog post that links to an external study with more information, will my blog post lose any page rank by using a follow link?

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