Most social websites of consequence use the nofollow attribute. Should you stop all your SEO endeavors and just spam social and links? In particular, Google using them as a ranking factor. Is this truly the case?
The anchor element contains an href attribute where the target of the link is designated. An HTML attribute that lists the target of a link. Some people nofollow them in order to prevent them from receiving any link juice.
Situation C: 100 links on the page, 1 normal and 99 with a nofollow attribute. PageRank Distribution and nofollow When nofollow was introduced, some SEO enthusiasts wanted to use it for so called “PageRank sculpting” (the intentional steering of...
Three big trends are changing how we attribute value in SEO. How Dare You Tell Me To NoFollow My Sponsored Links - Search Engine Roundtable Search engine upstart, Blekko, continuing it's quest to form an alliance against spam has partnered with...
Misuse of this HTML attribute isn't as common as the two previously mentioned. Check out your internal nofollow Robots Meta tag usage at Open Site Explorer Nofollow Code This tag is found appended to link code as [rel="nofollow"”.
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.
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...
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 attribute was described as a tool for site owners to identify potentially untrusted external...
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...
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.
In today's SEM Crossfire column, "The Great Nofollow Link Debate of '08," Chris Boggs discusses the evolution of the "nofollow" attribute and its impact on SEO and link building. What started as a way to stop comment spam three years ago has turned...
Adam Lasnik on Paid LinksGoogle's spam fighter provided Eric Enge with some insight into Google's thinking on paid links, what their objectives are, and how they view Nofollow. Yahoo Lets Webmasters ID Non-Essential Page ElementsUsing a new "robots...
This changed in January 2007, when Wikipedia opted to add the "nofollow" attribute to all outbound links, effectively cutting off the transfer of PageRank in Google's algorithm. In addition, Hochman points out that there are still hundreds of other...
Adam Lasnik InterviewGoogle's spam fighter provided Eric Enge with some insight into Google's thinking on paid links, what their objectives are, and how they view Nofollow. How Google, Yahoo & Ask.com Treat the No Follow Link Attribute, Search...
Loren Baker has asked Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Ask.com to explain just what nofollow really means in a comprehensive post at Search Engine Journal, "How Google, Yahoo & Ask.com Treat the No Follow Link Attribute.
You could also use the rel=nofollow attribute. Use the unauthenticated spam report form and make sure to include the word “paidlink” (all one word) in the text area of the spam report. Sign in to Google's webmaster console and use the authenticated...
As for the rel="nofollow" attribute, if you haven't been keeping up, it's for those who want to avoid passing any "link juice" (a link that might lead to a boost in the other site's search rank) to sites that they link to.
From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel="nofollow") on hyperlinks, those links won't get any credit when we rank websites in our search results. In a post at Search Engine Roundtable, Barry Schwartz points out that Googler Adam Lasnick has...
Since we can't tell people to not sell traffic, and hence sell links, please use the "nofollow" attribute on the links you purchase. To do this, we need to have a comprehensive index that is as spam-free as possible.
Google will likely respond that is that is the case, people should use the “no follow” attribute to ensure that the search engine doesn't assume that the link was obtained for the purpose of trying to improve PageRank and potentially actual...
