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    4. I found that the link from my YouTube channel to my website was do-follow through Moz bar but no one is indexing it. Why?

    I found that the link from my YouTube channel to my website was do-follow through Moz bar but no one is indexing it. Why?

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    • knoiwtall
      knoiwtall last edited by

      _ I found that the link from my YouTube channel to my website was do-follow. I checked through Moz bar but no one is indexing it. Why  is it so? _

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      • katemorris
        katemorris last edited by

        Who is no one else? What tools are you referring to? I assume you mean other backlink checking tools are not listing this link. Is that correct?

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        • knoiwtall
          knoiwtall @katemorris last edited by

          Google, Moz, Bing, Ahrefs are no one else.
          I am referring to moz bar for checking link whether it was dofollow or no-follow.

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          • katemorris
            katemorris @knoiwtall last edited by

            Depends on where that link is. Is it inside a video summary, in your profile? YT uses their own redirect system that can confuse some tools. Also going to flag this to Product help in case someone at Moz can help out.

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            • knoiwtall
              knoiwtall last edited by

              It's in the channel profile. I think all the links in video description are no-follow.

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              • katemorris
                katemorris last edited by

                The channel profile links I saw were not direct links. If you hover over them, not click, just hover, you will see they link to the YT domain first, then go through a very odd redirect that is not recognized by normal crawlers. That is why I think you see it as a followed link ... it's a followed link to them and then weirdly redirected to you. There will not be any passed link equity from this setup as far as I can tell.

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