Yahoo doesnt care about "nofollow" links ?

[Sambooka]

Dear members

I have one question to ask. I just checked backlinks of one of my sites on yahoo site explorer and noted that

the first site being shown in the results is a site which has my link with a "nofollow" attribute.

Does this mean that yahoo doesnt care about rel="nofollow"? Can anybody else check and confirm this from their

own sites? And what about MSN?
Any suggestions?

Thanks

[Wit]

It's true. Yahoo doen't bother with rel=nofollow. Isn't it great?

[rowtc2]

Use robots.txt to block your files from 1 or more spiders.
http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/faq.html
But be carrefull to not disallow your entire site.

[hhheng]

Really, maybe you shall report this to yahoo.

Rowtc2, I remember robots.txt is used to stop a spider to access a page, but it can't stop a spider follow a link. Am I right?

[Wit]

Ummm, I think they consciously chose NOT to be hampered by the rel=nofollow bit too much :)

[David E]

I have looked into this and although it shows them up as backlinks they do not help at all with SEO, same with Google, I am pretty positive that MSN counts them.

[mandar-seo]

You can block spiders from following links. You need to set the option in robots.txt. There are two options nofollow and noindex. Its totally upto you whether to allow spider to do things.

I have observed that the blog rel=nofollow is not respected by Yahoo and Google both. I have some backlinks from blog comments that has rel=nofollow showing up in backlink list.

With regards,
Mandar Thosar