Well... everybody knows about ref="nofollow" attribute. I've got a question - this attribute should be placed only in url: <a href=".." ref="nofollow">...</a> HTML: Or it can be placed these ways: <div ref="nofollow"> <a href="..">...</a> </div> HTML: <style> .blahblah{ ref : nofollow; } </style> <a href=".." class="blahblah">...</a> HTML: If yes, how link buyers should check for their links?
In my opinion this rel="nofollow" can only refer to links, because of it's function. I think it must be between the <a opening and the </a> closing tags.
OMG what if <style> .bestlink{ rel : nofollow; } </style> <a href=".." class="bestlink">...</a> better check carefully before link
I am interested to know this as well. I thought of it a while ago but dropped it as I never read about such thing. Waiting for someone to enlighten this. Thank you, ZY, for the topic.
go to http://www.backlinkwatch.com/ and check backlinks. It will also tell you if the no follow ref is attached.
It can be placed for particular urls or for whole page in metatags. For check that there is quite nice tool like visual pagerank.
Right click>View source. I use Notepad++ then just go search, type "nofollow" and it shows if the page contains the term or not.
Doesn't work because it expands to this: <a href=".." style="rel : nofollow;">..</a> HTML: The only result would be an invalid style attribute. On a sidenote related to 'nofollow', I was looking at some of my backlinks the other day and noticed something interesting. Answers.com was scraping wikipedia content without using the nofollow attribute in the links. But, I also noticed that the scaped content was several months old so it may have been taken before wikipedia added the nofollow tag.
If you check a site with a spider simulator it will show you exactly what the engines see as far as followed links and no follow links - the other thing it does for you is to identify if you have a sneaky webmaster that's using an iframe for the links section which isn't even read as part of the page (had that happen before) The one I use is.... http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/se-bot-simulator.html Lisa
Yes, there are some tools to check this. I have another question related to nofollow, which SE uses this function as I checked my BL on yahoo, it showed me BL from some social bookmarks too (we know they use nofollow).
It's my understanding that it's only Google that honors the nofollow but I could be wrong.... another way to do it would be with the robots.txt file which I believe most of the big search engines adhere to but again, I could be wrong on that too. Another option would be the noindex tag... nofollow is just for links Lisa edit: a nice option if you're looking for nofollow on other sites is to install the searchstatus add on to firefox - a very handy seo tool
The nofollow attribute was introduced by Google: http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050118-204728
If you have firefox you can use a plugin called SearchStatus -- http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/ It shows all no-follow links with a pink box around them - also has some great tools that show meta tags, indexed pages, # of outbound links -- pretty damn useful. If you don't have firefox what are you waiting for??? I hate IE and since switching to firefox I'll never go back
Use Iwebtool to check if the script you've created has an attribute of rel nofollow. http://www.iwebtool.com/visual_pagerank