Nofollow links appear to be still included in SEOMOZ crawl and Google

[adventure34]

I have added the nofollow tag to links throughout my site to hide duplicate content from Google but these pages are still being shown in my SEOMOZ crawl. I also fetched an example page with the Googlebot within Webmaster tools and it showed all nofollow links.

An example is http://www.adventurepeaks.com/news

All News tags have nofollow but each tag is appearing in my SEOMOZ crawl report as duplicate content.

Any suggestions on whether this is a problem or if i have applied the tag incorrectly?

Many thanks in advance

[CaseyKluver]

Dave,

Adding a rel="nofollow" tag to a URL is not going to fix any duplicate content. It just means that moz/Google bot aren't going to follow that link. But they already know that that URL exists so they will continue to index it.

If you dont want Google to index your content because of duplicate content you can use a canonical tag or noindex, nofollow tag. Check out this article on the same issue http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/duplicate-content on how you can resolve your problem.

Hope that helps!

[adventure34]

Many thanks Casey, i'll give that a try. Sounds exactly what i need!

Regards

Dave