When you add the nofollow parameter to the anchor tag, it tells search engines something like this: "you can go to this page, but I'm not saying that it is any good. It's simply related to my content, nothing more. Don't count my backlink as a vote for the page".
Hi Nikki11 Yeah exactly as above. Basicly if you use it, it is not supposed to transfer any PR to the receiving page. It might not be a good idea to use it in some cases. For example, if people see that you are using it, they sometimes may feel as you are trying to conserve your PR for yourself and then they will not link back to you. Hope that helps you Nikki frenzy25
When you create a hyperlink, like Philopoemen said, your giving a thumbs up to that site... and in turn passing on link juice. But if you only have x amount of juice, you want to control who and where you give it out to. Thats the best use for nofollow. Your actually saying... you can follow this site but I'm not passing them any of my link mojo. I'm keeping it all for myself! And it's not just for outbound links. In some cases you have to control the link flow within your site.
Hmm, what happens if you have two anchor tags to the same page and only use no follow on one of them? Does it still receive no PR ?
In that case, the link without the nofollow tag will get followed. Another way of controling link juice is using the robots.txt file. You can add in links, filetypes, directores, etc. for more info copy & paste into your address bar: google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35302
nofollow tag will just stop sharing PR juice (link juice) so applying nofollow to one of the two links which point to the same page will not make really a big difference.
Here's the HTML Code : <a href="http://www.site.com/page.html" rel="nofollow">Visit My Page</a> As mentioned earlier this page wud not be indexed as it has a nofollow attribute.
Somewhy people confuse the meaning of this tag. The "nofollow" parameter does NOT influence whether the linked page will be indexed or not. It will not prevent search engine bots from following the link and indexing that page (if allowed). It will simply not transfer PR to the linked page. For example some developers and designers have a portfolio page on their personal site. Let's assume it has a PR4 with 15 completed projects on the page. So there are 15 outgoing links. Some clients payed you more and treated you better, or some projects are your personal ones. So you will add the "nofollow" parameter to let's say 10 out of 15 links. That way, your page's PR4 will be divided by 5 (normal anchors), and not by 15. So those 5 baclinks without a nofollow parameter will get much more 'juice' than those 10, which won't get any at all.
I think that links to a bad neighborhood with a "nofollow" attribute shouldn't create a penalty for you.
Hmm, so does a page that has fewer outgoing links have more 'authority' according to Google than one that has lots of them? I always thought that was the case. And if it is, should we use this nofollow attribute whenever we cite a source, link to an external article or other instances on a blog for example, to aid the SEO ?
Well, yes, that is why most web directories don't have any value. Because they have 30-40 outgoing links on the same page, besides the other 10-15 internal links. So if the page is a PR 4, and has 50 total links on the page, every link (that doesn't have a "nofollow") will get a +0.08 PR. If you would however have 10 total links on a PR 4 page, you would get +0.4 PR for every link. Having more links on a page does not influence that page's value. It affects only the value that is passed down to every link on it.
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Hi Nikki, This is the attribute that Google introduced in Year of 2005 to stop spamming in forum posting and comments in blogs and guest books, message board etc. Nofollow will not give you link juice, Means Won't be counted as Back link for only Google. Yahoo is not following this attribute and MSN is not Clear about This attribute. The Syntax is: <a href="URL of Your Site" rel="nofollow"> Now, But This will help you in getting rich traffic towards to your site. What you want traffic or back links ? Ultimately the reason behind back link to have higher pr and than getting good traffic. Some other syntax which are having more than one value with nofollow are <a href="URL of Your Site" rel="me nofollow"> and <a href="URL of Your Site" rel="external nofollow"> So all the Syntax having different values but work the same. Don't get confused in it. Regards, Chaitanya Patel.
HTML meta tags for robots. < meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" /> To allows all robots User-agent: * Disallow: To all robots out User-agent: * Disallow: / To prevent pages from all crawlers User-agent: * Disallow: /page name/ To prevent pages from specific crawler User-agent: GoogleBot Disallow: /page name/