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[Natural Search Blog] Perhaps this means that LinkedIn may have also indirectly cut off some of the link juice they received as well if people start nofollowing links back to their profiles.

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[Sphinn: New Topics] LinkedIn, But NoFollow Link Love: Since November, it appears that LinkedIn has now started placing nofollows on public profile page links...except usage is inconsistent, even with examples of profiles where some of the links within the profile are followed and others are nofollowed.

[Kingpin SEO Webmaster Magazine] Linkedin adds rel=”nofollow” to profile links - SEO News ...: For some time now, there has been a lot of custom anchor text and SEO strategies for having juice from a linkedin profile pointing to your sites. There is a couple of blog posts out there that described methods of obtaining high PR on your profile.

[MiamiTom] LinkedIn, But NoFollow Link Love: It does appear that LinkedIn has started nofollowing public profile links…but with a strange twist.I’ve been so heads down in client audits that I didn’t discover this until, ironically, doing another audit for another client. [...]

[Gary Reid] Youtube Removes Nofollow Tag | Gary Reid: This meant that my Youtube profile had a link to my video blog that was nofollow’d. This for me isn’t a fair use of the tag, thousands of people link to their social media profiles, passing pagerank to those sites and get nothing back in return, my Twitter page is PR5.

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[High-Quality Web Design, Cebu Website Design, Web Design Company Philippines | Eyeanventures.com] Advanced SEO Techniques: Website Design, Internal Page Rank and ...: The nofollow attribute was devise by Matt Cutts of Google.  Its intention is to enable you to link to a page without giving that page a share of your PR.  This can be used when you are linking to pages that have no outbound links, and for which a PR would not be meaningful.  Google claim that it uses the term literally and does not follow the link at all, but test results have been conflicting, and it appears to follow it, but not index it.

[free slash] 6 Latest Extensions, Addons Released For Chrome | free slash: Basically it highlights the Nofollow Links (rel=”nofollow” attribute) on the website you .Works with 80+ services including Twitter, Facebook, Google Gmail, Google Reader, Delicious, Blogger, MySpace, LinkedIn, and lots more.

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[Brooks Digital Marketing] Popular Link Building Methods | Brooks Digital Marketing: Finding relevant blogs used to be a great way of building links to pass PageRank (Google authority juice) but most bloggers add the 'nofollow' tag to links which thwarts any chance of getting any juice from their blog, however in the .Social Media (Twitter/Facebook/Linkedin etc.) - You have to be careful with this one because of the hype, which is valid depending on which sector you operate in.

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