effects of the rel="external" tag?

its not a loop, its actually the number of votes to what is correct

people tell what they think is right, for above, everybody thinks the same way

 

Thanks, makes sense now.

 

Haha. Yeah I read the first few replies and was satisfied. This was an interesting thread though because I have been wondering what that link attribute was. Thanks all.

 

Thanks for the useful info .. just wrote a article about this on my blog rel=’external’

 

I was also searching for the rel="external" in google and found out this one..and thanks a lott for the info about this..thank for this discussion..

 

I think I can safely say rel=”external” has no meaning at all.

The original attribute was introduced as rel=”nofollow”.

Wordpress and possibly some other blogging platforms use rel=”external nofollow”.

 

Thanks, I didn't know this. Had to write a post about the rel=external tag now to memorize it

 

Thanks for breaking this down for me guys.... I had seen that and wondered, but I guess I never thought to ask... thanks again!

 

Yes, this is great! I was going to start a topic asking about this issue, but I searched Google instead and the first result was this thread which answered my question. Now I'm happy cause I know a lot of links that I have are definitely valid.

 

Yes Kaabi, I found this thread from google too and hope my post not a loop

 

Heh it seems that SE like this thread , so one question to continue it.
Will future browsers support rel="external" and open link in new window without any JavaScript intervention ?

 

Are you still getting a back link out of it?

 

Nice info, I always wondered why Matt Cutts used both the tags nofollow and external on the outgoing links. This will surely help a lot

 

They have removed target="_blank" , what about target="_New" is it also removed?.

 

I do not know much or really about this attribute but I was just trying to remove "rel=external nofollow" from my wordpress blog and noticed that the plugin had removed the "nofollow" but "external" ws still there hence it could also mean that when you see "rel=external" it could be the result of a do follow plugin doing its work.

 

It's the same as target="_blank" in my opinion.

 

Yes, you're right. rel='external' won't affect search engine indexing for any major engine.

 

Thanks for every answers. I found a lot of blogs their links used rel="external".

 

External tag is used to make external links nofollow.

 

I am finding this..very informative instraction Parveen121. Thanks