"no follow" and passing google rank

[jaimes]

I am confused about the "no follow" and the passing of link credit. Basically, a site that links to me with anchor text is in Wordpress. I understand Wordpress are full No Follow sites so what that means to me is googlebot does not go through my link on their page and pass credit to my site. Is that correct?

Here was their answer to me on that very question and I'm not sure if they are right.

"No follow means don't index everything. Me linking to you on the site improves linkbacks which improves your rank. However "no follow" and "do follow" were made for things like comments. So if someone were to go on my site and make a comment they will score page rank as well. It means follow EVERY link on my site not just the ones i specifically link to."

Please let me know so I can clear up this confusion I have.
Thanks J

[jaimes]

Anyone have any idea what the rules are for a Site in Wordpress or when a NoFollow is used?

Does google give credit to the receiving website if these are used.

[jomaxx]

This is probably not a fixed function of WordPress. If you do a View Source for the linking page, you can see whether the HREF link to your website contains the "rel=nofollow" attribute or not.

If it DOES contain that tag, then that link is essentially ignored by Google.

[jaimes]

Thank, What I read is this " WordPress 1.5 and above automatically assigns the nofollow attribute to all user-submitted links (comment data, commenter URI, etc) "

That is why it is tough to tell if the link that was added by the website's owner carries any weight.

I can't figure out how to tell because it does not say no follow, but that rule above seems to imply it

What do you think.
THanks. J

[jomaxx]

If it doesn't say nofollow then you're fine. The key phrase in that passage is "user-submitted links". For example if you make a blog entry and some unrelated party adds a comment below it, any links THEY add will be set to nofollow.

[Pico_Train]

Yes, exactly but if you add a link in your own blog posting you have to add the nofollow tag yourself. So as said above, check the source of the page to see if the nofollow is added.

Hope that helps.

[jaimes]

Yes, thanks. I'd be nice to figure out if a a particular link, helps, hurts or is a non factor.