Hey all, one of my sites has a bunch of links from “LinkedIn” reported in Google Search Console — does that mean those are follow links?

[cinemafunk]

You will not know in GSC. You have to find the page that the link is on to know what the relative is.

In most cases it is a nofollow.

[poizonb0xxx]

It’s not something you should be worried about. Anyone can get a link from LinkedIn, which should make you wonder what the potential value of that link is and move on

[WebLinkr]

Nope. Are they scraped content?

>I thought social media tended to have no follow tags.

NoFollow means authority doesnt flow or follow the link.

Googlebot will grab every/any url in every page including banned sites – its how its efficient.

If it had large ban lists it would slow it down – because the internet is so vast. If there’s 10trillion pages – there’s likely to 100trillion URLs including ghost urls/parameters etc

If they’re all linking to one page, did that page go up in ranking? then its a truly nofollow link

[bluehost]

LinkedIn links are almost always marked nofollow or ugc, so they aren’t going to pass PageRank in the classic sense. That said, Google doesn’t completely ignore nofollow anymore. Since 2019 they treat it as a hint, which means in rare cases they might still use the link for discovery or even ranking signals.

In practice though, a flood of LinkedIn links won’t move your rankings. They’re more useful for referral traffic and branding. If you see them in GSC, that just means Google discovered them, not that they’re passing authority.

If you want to be sure, view the page source on the LinkedIn post and you’ll see the rel attribute on the link. That’s the only way to confirm whether it’s nofollow, ugc, or sponsored.