rel='me' vs rel='nofollow'

[celshader]

youtube.com used to have rel='nofollow' on the link to your website that they allow you to put on your channel page.

This means you get no pagerank juice from it.

I have noticed they have changed this to rel='me'

Does this mean I get some pagerank from this now?

Thank you in advance for any reples.

[rtrethewey]

In theory, yes, a link that is not blocked with the rel="nofollow" attribute or on a page with a robots <meta> tag set to "nofollow" will generally pass PageRank and other ranking factors. But I suspect that Google probably doesn't count such links because they are not what they would call "editorial" links given as an endorsement. It's known that Google already discounts many kinds of low quality links such as page footer links and forum signatures, and since YouTube is a Google property they would easily be able to recognize and ignore such links.

On the other hand, we're talking about Google and one hand doesn't always know what the other hand is doing. rel="me" is a part of their current push to promote authorship references to Google + profiles. So it's entirely possible that they haven't realized that they removed the rel="nofollow". Not yet, anyway. All you can do is wait and see if it helps. Good luck!

[msahoo]

The search engine considers the Do follow back links as the part of the site.So, the PR of the site will be passed over to the other site.But in case of No follow, it wont happen.But No follo back links can help to get traffic to the site.

[selina]

Google do not follow nofollow links but some search engines like Yahoo crawls no follow links also
so you get benefit from no follow links also