No-Follow Link?

What is a No-Follow link? and how wold you know if a link is a no follow link?

 

Here is everything u need to know:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow

 

that wiki article was a good read - thanks

 

You've already asked this question (and has been answered) under:

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=699075

 

Hmm. Just do a View Source and see if there is a no follow attribute as part of the <a tag.

Eric

 

The nofollow prevents search engines to be index a url. For SEO (search engine optimization) purposes, you must avoid the nofollow.

 

The searchstatus plugin for firefox has an option to highlight nofollow links.

Helps a lot when working on link building.

 

if you are using FF just press CTRL+U and then search for the link, you will be able to see nofollow tag if that is a nofollow link

 

I've only just learned about the nofollow today and have installed the searchstatus plugin as mentioned above. I find this the most useful way to identify no follow links.

As I am also interested in HTML and web page creation can someone clarify the HTML of a no follow, from reading the above I understand it to be:

<a href="www.link.com" nofollow>Text</a>

is that correct of have i missed part of the syntax?

Caf-Phil

 

It has to be rel=nofollow or rel="external nofollow" (I think those are identical, someone please correct me if I'm wrong).

So it would be:

 

I think noffolow is also useful in preventing spammer into yours blog.Any ways to check if it is a nofollow link try to view the source of the link.

 

nofollow will be like this :

<a href="www.tembam.com" rel="nofollow">Tembam</a>

or rel me

<a href="www.tembam.com" rel="me">Tembam</a>

Code (markup):

 

I should have mentioned, this is really not going to work:

because it sees the www.link.com as a relative link!

it needs to be

More info:
http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-tag-faq

 

Good point linkbliss!