Is this link followed or not? (Link in list)

[Katjing]

Hi,

I am doing some SEO for a big client and ran into this HTML.
How would you interpret this? Is the link within the ul list followed or not?

<div id="toptabs" class="nofl item-list">
<ul>
<li id="tab-segment" class="first" rel="nofollow">
<a title="Other-Segment" href="http://my.url/"/>
</li>
<li id="tab-main" class="active last" rel="nofollow">
</li>
</ul>

Thanks for your help!

[D_Blackwell]

I believe that it will be ignored because it is not being properly used. nofollow in the HTML applies to individual links and should be with the <a>, not the <li>.

W3C - "The nofollow keyword may be used with a and area elements."

<a rel="nofollow" title="Other-Segment" href="http://my.url/"/>

[Katjing]

I agree with you as I haven't seen something like that before. Thought I may have missed something.

Thanks for your help.