Can someone explain how i should use no follow tags? I am adding external links and have learned that I should add the no follow tag to them . Can someone give me an example? I know it's basic stuff I'm just unsure. Are there any pros or cons to this tag. thanks to all who reply
Nofollow tags stop spiders from following the link. Sometimes this is not advantagous, but not bad. Having your site link to related, authority websites may actually help you with google's algorythms.
I'm not sure if this is true, but I've read somewhere that by not having the nofollow tag, you are essentially supporting the link and thus sharing your Page Rank with it. That said, if you have a nofollow tag linking to a site where google thinks is "bad" it will in turn hurt your Page Rank.
No follow does not stop a spider from following the link at all. No follow is to not pass PR on from your page to the external page. There really is no reason to use no follow if you are linking to a good relevant site though. I have to assume since you want to link to those sites then you find them useful. If that's true don't bother with the no follow tag. Hoodala
agreed. linking to relevant sites is how the internet works and is in the spirit of the internet.. nofollowing links to artificially control PR and rankings is bad in many respects.. but good in others obv.
Use nofollow if you are selling links as adverts. You can also use nofollow for internal links if you want to try and avoid wasting PR on pages you don't want to appear in SERPs.
hey thanks everyone , that was a good range of opinion. What I think I'm going to do is to just use the no follow tag sparingly. My PR2 isn't in any jeopardy Cheers
The way I look at this, if I was in the business of gathering data - say if I owed Google - I'd have my tech guys program our software so that every time a no follow tag was found, our computers WOULD follow the link and see what was at the other end. What's to loose but more information. If what's at the other end is total trash, why would the site it's on allow it to remain. And the first site I'd start with is Wikipedia. Personally, I think Google follows them, even if it does not say so. If a company is in the business of searching data, text and images, why stop when someone has just put the link in front of your nose? If Google does not follow them, then all I can say is that's an amazing procedure to commit to.