In this experiment we intent to document if the nofollow-tag carries any weight or not.
To check if it does we will do a very simple experiment.
We will publish a single page on a subdomain that is not cached in Google at all.
The page will be linked to from here with a single nofollow-tag
Check the current status for the experiment in Google. Remove 123 from the search string to see the actual result.
BJorn Solstad said,
August 2, 2008 @ 4:29 amWhen checking today it looks like the page is not cached at all and the word cannot be found. We can hereby conclude that nofollow does indeed not carry any weight.