Site Explorer shows links as followable but they have nofollow tags
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Hello,
I am looking at site explorer and sites linking to my site moneyfact.co.uk.
I've got thousands of links showing as 'followable' but when i check them they have rel="nofollow" tags.
e.g:
Why would they show as followable when the links are nofollowed?
Thanks
Steve
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Hello Chiaryn,
I have just checked again and the nofollow links still show up as followed in site explorer. Could you have a look at why this is happening please?
Kind regards
Steve Brumpton
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Thanks for the reply Chiaryn. These links were changed from followable (is that even a word?) to nofollow so that data rollback may be the issue. I'll check again on Thursday.
Thanks
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Hey Steve,
Thanks for writing in and sorry the data is looking off in OSE. Our index is currently showing data that was collected prior to March 19th, so it may be that dianomioffers.co.uk made changes to the links since we collected data for the index. Unfortunately, this issue is a bit difficult to troubleshoot because I can only see how the links are currently formatted on the site and I the only reference I have to how the links were formatted previously would be what we are showing in the index. We did previously have an index out that was released on March 29th, but due to some data retention issues, we had to role back to the older index. We are expecting to update back to the more current release by Thursday, so you may want to check again and see if the information for these links has been updated in the more current version of the index.
I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any other questions.
-Chiaryn
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Interesting you mention this as I've just experienced the very same thing.
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