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[rel='external nofollow']

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by ! Ask !, Nov 30, 2006.

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    I went to mat blog and he is using [rel='external nofollow'] probably the same effect as “nofollow” but doesn’t highlight on firefox plugins.
     
    ! Ask !, Nov 30, 2006 IP
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    #2
    Looks like it only no follows external links, thats a pretty nice extension to the nofollow meta tag!

    Agh apparently i give you rep too often so i cant give you anymore right now..
     
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    I think he use this extension to prevent spam links to get indexed and followed.
     
    530, Nov 30, 2006 IP
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    #5
    search for the file called usercontent.css this is for firefox, and add the following css code

    a[rel="external nofollow"] {
    border: thin dashed firebrick ! important;
    background-color: rgb(255, 200, 200) ! important;
    }

    this will highlight the no follow links
     
    tdd1984, Dec 24, 2006 IP
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    Very nice tip, rep added thanks.
     
    ! Ask !, Dec 24, 2006 IP
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    #7
    So Matt uses it, but he hasn't blogged about it, as far as I can tell. The meaning does seem to be that only external links won't be followed. Which would have obvious benefits. But I'm not sure it's an officially recognized tag - so it's unclear whether it would actually work.

    [source: I just googled the tag, it's all over the forums, but doesn't give any results from either Matt Cutts blog itself or the official google blog]
     
    kh7, Dec 24, 2006 IP
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    google design this method for wordpress, and yes that tag is very effective, but worpress blog comments use it.
     
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    does any one know of a way building back links with blogs or other types of technqiues?
     
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    Weird that they designed that tag, but did not blog about it. Or did I just not google very efficiently?
     
    kh7, Dec 24, 2006 IP
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    It is nothing that "Google designed". There is rel="nofollow" and if you want to add CSS or JS to links you can put more stuff into the rel="" attribute.
     
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    Does the tag get used on all wordpress comments.
     
    Dave E, Dec 25, 2006 IP
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    yes google designed this pacifically for this reason for blogs, they had to change it around :).
     
    tdd1984, Dec 27, 2006 IP
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    What they "designed" was rel="nofollow". The "external" part has crap to do with that.
     
    Icheb, Dec 27, 2006 IP
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    That's what I thought. And as long as google doesn't use that , it doesn't actually work. So rel="external nofollow" would be the same as rel="nofollow" as far as the google search engine is concerned. The external in there is probably just to be able to style the link differently (which a lot of blogs, including Matt Cutts' blog) do.
     
    kh7, Dec 28, 2006 IP