diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/apache/stormcrawler/bolt/JSoupParserBolt.java b/core/src/main/java/org/apache/stormcrawler/bolt/JSoupParserBolt.java
index 5c828bc1a..015403d06 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/apache/stormcrawler/bolt/JSoupParserBolt.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/apache/stormcrawler/bolt/JSoupParserBolt.java
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.stream.Stream;
import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
import org.apache.storm.metric.api.MultiCountMetric;
import org.apache.storm.task.OutputCollector;
@@ -269,7 +270,10 @@ public void execute(Tuple tuple) {
final URL baseURL = new URL(url);
for (Element link : links) {
// nofollow
- boolean noFollow = "nofollow".equalsIgnoreCase(link.attr("rel"));
+ String[] relkeywords = link.attr("rel").split(" ");
+ boolean noFollow =
+ Stream.of(relkeywords).anyMatch(x -> x.equalsIgnoreCase("nofollow"));
+
// remove altogether
if (noFollow && robots_noFollow_strict) {
continue;
diff --git a/core/src/test/resources/digitalpebble.com.html b/core/src/test/resources/digitalpebble.com.html
index 8b1de6881..683321640 100644
--- a/core/src/test/resources/digitalpebble.com.html
+++ b/core/src/test/resources/digitalpebble.com.html
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
+