google bot rel="nofollow" how long to stop following

Question

I just added rel="nofollow" to some links.

Anyone know how long it takes for google to stop following after "nofollow" is added to a link? I added an hour ago and still see them crawling the "nofollow" links.

Answer 1

It might be the case that it won't stop following your rel="nofollow" links. According to Wikipedia:

Google states that their engine takes "nofollow" literally and does not "follow" the link at all. However, experiments conducted by SEOs show conflicting results. These studies reveal that Google does follow the link, but does not index the linked-to page, unless it was in Google's index already for other reasons (such as other, non-nofollow links that point to the page).