Google indexing nofollow links

[JuiceBoxOM]

Hi Guys

I have yellowpages.com.au appearing in the link profiles for some of my clients, but not in others (even if clients without the link in their profile have had an actual link on yellowpages.com.au longer than some who do have it in their profile).

My understanding is that Google MAY eventually index a nofollow link... My question is what would cause Google to actually index it?

[BlueprintMarketing]

I am sorry could you reword the beginning of your question.

I understand that you have yellowpages.com.au URLs pointing to some of your clients?

Yet it seems like you are saying that other clients that your 100% certain do not have a yellowpages.com.au are somehow showing up with a Yellow Pages URL pointing at their site?

I suppose you are doing this all with open site Explorer?

• Your second paragraph

"My understanding is that Google MAY eventually index a nofollow link... My question is what would cause Google to actually index it?"

• Yes the answer to what your second paragraph states is absolutely if a link is regular follow link and it points to a no follow link Google will finish crawling it has to actually crawl be no follow to understand what it is.
• No follows done completely Google's discretion. If you are telling me that these people are receiving link juice from a no follow that would surprise me.
• if  that the no follow link shows up in the index that does not surprise me at all.

I hope this makes sense and answers her question.

Sincerely,

Thomas

[JuiceBoxOM]

All of our clients do have listings on yellowpages.com.au, however only some of the clients show yellowpages.com.au in their link profiles. I'm just wondering why it is appearing for some and not others?

Thank you for the second part of the question. I wasn't actually sure whether they were passing link juice even though they appeared in the index, I thought Moz only displayed links in a client's link profile if they were actually passing juice on to their website

[FedeEinhorn]

Where are you seeing those links as indexed by Google? In Google WMT? OSE?

[anthonydnelson]

When you say "link profiles" it leads me to believe that you are using Open Site Explorer or some other SEO Tool. No SEO tool can crawl every page on the web, which is why the link may not show up on some client's backlink reports.

See if it is reported in Google Webmaster Tools or if the page is indexed by Google. If the page is indexed, you know Google is aware of the link.