I see some links on Youtube.com that look like they are "Do-follow" links am I wrong?
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Hi,
I have some videos on YouTube.com and I notice many of the links show as "Do-Follow" per the Moz Bar.
I have a feeling they are not actually "Dofollow" links because they never show up in Moz Pro, SemRush or any of my other tools. Can some of you people with greater knowledge of YouTube please clarify why the links look like "Do Follow". I am specifically thinking of my own backlinks on the videos and also the links in the "Comments".
Best Regards,
Bill Dalessi
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Hi Bill,
I think this will help answer your question. The short answer is no, you cannot get a dofollow backlink from YouTube. I believe the Moz bar failing to properly register these 'comment' links as nofollow because they are javascript based and the Moz bar is not compatible with Javascript.
The links that I see in the video descriptions are registering as 'nofollow' with the toolbar. Even the links on individual channel homepages are being stripped of SEO value due this 'rel= me nofollow' tag which acts the same as a standard nofollow tag [see screenshot].
I will note that all internal links (links to other youtube.com pages) will register as dofollow. But outbound links will be nofollowed.
Hope this helps!
MozBar tool doesn't highlight follow/no follow, what does that mean?
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