Rel= “nofollow” Test results

The first rel= “nofollow” is a complete test and provides results as expected. Results can be avoided from getting tainted if specifics of how test is being run are provided.

To determine whether a link or website having rel= “nofollow” attribute attached is passed on anchor text weight, one need to build few links to the Beanstalk homepage from few forums that are automatically added to rel= “nofollow”. Links used for anchor text are bsiseoinc (with keywords fitting into two criteria).

The Beanstalk homepage among Google results for a phrase becomes visible despite the term appearing nowhere on it and no links pointing to it with that keyword which contains no rel= “nofollow” attribute.

How much weight exactly each link has is not known. The common belief that anchor text from rel= “nofollow” link pass weight only if site had other links using same anchor text that were not blocked was ritually followed till now. But this is not clearly the case. Now it is clear that anchor text don’t hold as much weight as a standard link as the Beanstalk homepage appears low in results at this time.

The next test is to determine how much weight a link with rel= ‘nofollow” passes. The test will stretch over months as two sites will be building to complete unused term. One would get only rel= “nofollow” links and other will get standard links only which will help to determine how many rel= “nofollow” links will be required to beat site with followed links when all else are equal.

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