.Nofollow and link count
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If i use nofollow on links ( internal or external ), will it reduce the link count as regard to Google. If there are 50 external links, and i nofollow 20 of them, will Google count this as 30 external links.
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Hi Atul,
As far as I am aware, Google will count all 50 of them, the only thing that changes is the way the PR is distributed. Even though you have nofollowed 20 of them, Google will still only pass on 1/50th of the PR to the followed links, meaning the PR that would have been sent to the nofollowed links vanishes.
This means that the page will only pass on 3/5ths of the PR it would have done if all the links were followed.
Hope this helps
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Links are counted as links, whether you choose to nofollow them or not. In your example, you still have 50 links.
Many of the questions you are asking are clearly answered within the resources on this site. You may wish to use the search function a bit, and read some of the fantastic blog articles and White Board Friday videos.
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