Impact of "noopener" Links

[mostcg]

Hey all,

Recently got a PR piece published with a link back to our website. The link was not showing up in the Moz crawler, but I did find it under unlinked mentions.

When I checked the page with the link, I saw that it contained rel="noopener".

So a couple questions:

1. Is this similar to a nofollow link?

2. If the Moz Crawler is not registering it as a dofollow link, does that mean that Google will view it similarly?

Thanks!

[rjonesx. 0]

The rel="noopener" is simply to prevent a certain type of access to the previous page by blocking window.opener functions. It shouldn't impact the value of the link. I would be surprised if Moz Crawl was incorrectly assigning a nofollow to these links, would you be willing to share an example?

[mostcg]

Hi Russ,

Thanks for the clarification.

I've attached links to two images. I see the link listed as an unlinked message when I use Open Site Explorer. When I view the metrics in the campaign, it says there all mentions are linked.

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