Does Yahoo Mail Place nofollow On All Mailed Links?

I want to know why "nofollow" is in my link attributes from paste?

[dynamite]

Ello E'rbody,

I recently noticed that a nofollow attribute was placed on links that I had copied directly from my Yahoo Mail message and pasted to my web page using FrontPage 2003.

FP'03 doesn't even show the nofollow attribute when I right-click the link to view the link properties. Why would it? Nofollow is purely a Yahoo!/Google thing, right?

So I figure the nofollow must have been put there when Yahoo Mail recieved the message from the Outlook account that I sent it from.

None of this would matter had I not been chewed out by the advetiser I was placing the links for. He knew very well what nofollow meant for his SEO effort and so did I. I just couldn't tell him how it got there and damn near lost the account until I told him I would get to the bottom of it, give him an explination, and cut half the cost off his add.

So now that I need to get back to him with an explination, does anyone know for sure that it's Yahoo Mail adding the nofollow attribute to the links within an email?

I didn't want to mess with text only in Yahoo Mail (if that's even an option) and I'm not sure how to view the source behind my Yahoo messages.

Let me know if this is fact or if I've wrongly blamed Yahoo! Mail for causing the issue.

[martinibuster]

Have you tried sending yourself an email with links in it from a Yahoo account, then copy/pasting yourself?

[dynamite]

I just tried to send a link from Yahoo! Mail to Outlook.

I viewed the source in Outlook and there's no nofollow attached to the link in the source.

But what if I send it from Outlook to Yahoo! Mail?

Will Yahoo! Mail ad the nofollow to the inbound message?

BOOM! There it is.

Viewed the source of the Yahoo! Mail message body and sure enough, Yahoo! Mail placed the nofollow attribute to the link I sent from Outlook.

Now I can tell my client what happened, and now I know to avoid pasting links into an HTML editor directly copied from Yahoo! Mail.

Go check your links to make sure other webmasters have not done what I have done. This is purely an accident, so try not to be too hard on those webmasters.

Tip: Yahoo! Mail will add the nofollow to any links in any messages from any accounts you have forwarding to Yahoo! Mail as well. Well, I only have an Outlook account forwarding to Yahoo! Mail, so I'm not sure if that's 100% true.

Thanks Mr. Moderator.