All links on Wikipedia have the nofollow attribute. Without getting into a massive debate on the merits (or lack thereof) of nofollowed links here, suffice to say that nofollow links carry some algorithmic SEO value.
PageRank sculpting with the nofollow attribute used to be all the rage until Matt Cutts shut the door on it almost two years ago. Instead of an artificial construct, such as the nofollow attribute, you instead direct the sculpting through the way...
Most blogging platforms default by adding the nofollow attribute to every link. According to Matt Cutts of Google, "In Google, nofollow links don't pass PageRank and don't pass anchortext. NoFollow Another common tactic from reciprocal link...
Just because a link has the nofollow attribute doesn't mean that it counts for absolutely nothing. However, other sites implement nofollow policies on all external links, such as many U.S.government sites.
Recent changes in the processing of the nofollow attribute have caused consternation and concern among many publishers. In our example, Link 1 has the nofollow attribute on the link, and Link 2 and Link 3 don't.
Following the Nofollow Kerfuffle Jun 17, 2009 In my column today, "Following the Nofollow Kerfuffle (http://searchenginewatch.com/3634118)," I go through a few scenarios regarding Matt Cutts' recent disclosures of the changing algorithm Google...
Following the Nofollow Kerfuffle Jun 17, 2009 In my column today, "Following the Nofollow Kerfuffle (http://searchenginewatch.com/3634118)," I go through a few scenarios regarding Matt Cutts' recent disclosures of the changing algorithm Google...
Two weeks ago, Matt Cutts, head of the webspam team at Google, told search marketers that Google had changed the way it handles the nofollow attribute. As I wrote two weeks ago, the nofollow attribute began life as a tool to remove untrusted links...
When the nofollow attribute originally came on the scene, Google would just remove those links from the equation, according to Cutts. Today, he goes into detail on how Google views PageRank sculpting, and how it treats the nofollow attribute in...
Google Changes Course on Nofollow SEW EXPERTS: SEARCHING FOR MEANING Google used to advise SEOs that using the nofollow attribute on internal links could help save PageRank for more important pages. Now Matt Cutts has said that's no longer the case.
Here is where Google has changed the way it handles the nofollow attribute, according to Cutts. The nofollow attribute for links has evolved from a way to fight blogspam to a power SEO tool. When it was first launched in January 2005, the nofollow...
Matt Cutts, the famed Google engineer, states very clearly that if you got paid for a link then you should attach the rel="nofollow" attribute. My question to Matt, and Google as a whole, would be: If I'm doing a contest like this, should I tell...
It has also led to Cutts suggestion that publishers that sell text links mark their links with the nofollow attribute. Matt Cutts has written about the topic, and spoke about it at industry conferences and in interviews over the years.
There have been much discussion recently about using the “nofollow” attribute to sculpt a website's PageRank for ranking purposes, a practice commonly known as PR Sculpting. Matt Cutts from Google even went out of his way at the Web 2.0 conference...
You do this by adding a "nofollow" attribute to any link that you don't want the search engines to give credit to. All you have to do is add a nofollow attribute to the link. In this article, Joost de Valk, a Dutch SEO and Web developer, quotes...
While the paid links debate raged on, the nofollow attribute was quietly becoming used for more than just blocking outbound links. I've noticed nofollow links at Wikipedia are scraped, dropping the attribute but keeping the link.
Links that use the "nofollow" attribute or some sort of redirect to prevent the passing of PageRank are fine with them. Today in both the Webmaster Central blog and on Matt Cutts' personal blog, the topic of paid links is discussed in detail.
The nofollow attribute is just a mechanism that gives webmasters the ability to modify PageRank flow at link-level granularity. I suspect that this statement by Matt launched a few thousand experiments in understanding how to leverage this aspect...
Google has been warring against paid links that pass PageRank, such as those that don't use the nofollow attribute or some form of redirect. Last month, Google engineer Matt Cutts offered some guidelines for evaluating paid links to see if they fit...
Yahoo Lets Webmasters ID Non-Essential Page ElementsUsing a new "robots-nocontent" attribute, webmasters will soon be able to tell Yahoo's spiders that certain elements or sections of a page are not the real "content" of the page.
