rel="FOLLOW" Question!

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by crystak, Apr 11, 2008.

  1. #1
    Hey guys,

    I have a question, hoping you can shed some light. On a lot of blog posts where HTML is allowed, if you insert your link in the text body you automatically get a rel="nofollow" attribute (putting <META NAME="Googlebot"
    CONTENT="nofollow"> ). However, if you write <a href="http://link" rel="follow"> then would this override that nofollow attribute and threat it like a DOFOLLOW link ??

    EDIT: I know that after you refresh the page and check the attribute, it says it is dofollow indeed and I actually tried this and my SEO plugin for Firefox which supposedly just checks for a nofollow attribute in the source code doesn't identify it as nofollow anymore. But what does Google think of this attribute? Has there been any testing?
     
    crystak, Apr 11, 2008 IP
  2. kg_lew

    kg_lew Peon

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    i don't think you can do it that simply... but if you are using a blog, there are many plugins to change all your links to do-follow
     
    kg_lew, Apr 11, 2008 IP
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    nandla Member

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    rel="nofollow" will be precedence if multiple rel attributes found on single link.
     
    nandla, Sep 24, 2012 IP
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    So if Google ignores the second attribute rel="nofollow" does it mean Google will treat this link as a normal (follow) link?
     
    dmg68, Sep 24, 2012 IP