rel="follow" - what it means

I run an adult site directory and I'm seeing a few sites with rel="follow" in there links. Can someone please tell me what it means and the benefits of having it?

 

are you sure it`s rel="follow" and it`s not rel="nofollow" ?

 

it's basically meaningless extra code.

If its "nofollow" it means that spiders will not crawl those links (theoretically) and will not pass on PR.

Cheers
Notting

 

It's a tag introduced by google, all the link with the tag rel="nofollow" are not considered by google as link and any PR will be passed. I cant post link because i'm new here, but see the google guideline, the tag is mentioned there.

 

it`s also used by other search engines

 

The people who submitted those link were trying to be a smart ass..

Many adult directories use Robots-NoFollow instruction, that affects all the links on pages.
Some people believe that putting a "rel=follow" attribute with links would overrid robots meta tag.
Although it doesnt work that way. but its a common believe into web newbies.

 

does nofollow really works?

 

for google, yes.

 

thanks for the help guys

 

I have seen some people's blogs doing experiment on rel="nofollow" tag.
Some of them have concluded that nofollow is not considered as a PR passing link but it may help you in SEO in other way that is your Anchor Text. Google counts these texts and you are upgraded for that keyword in search results.
This is not my thought though, You can search google about this issue.

Thanks

 

If it's rel="follow", it doesn't mean at all, but if it's rel="nofollow"
than you should visit my best friend Connie's Blog
What Does Rel="Nofollow" Mean?
Regards,
James.

 

I had the same problem, but it was worst. I had a good link exhcnage when I saw that my partner is cheating. He had put my BL with rel="follow" element on in. So the point is - always check the HTML source where your links are placed.

 

I wonder if almost everyone has rel="nofollow" set in their external links.

 

Most people don't do it for regular links in content. I know I usually don't, if I link to a site in a blog post.

However, I do use rel=nofollow for some sitewide links. For example, I added an RSS feed with links to recent headlines from DZone. I didn't want to have 11 sitewide links going out, so I made them all nofollow. Comments are usually nofollow for the same reason.

- Walkere

 

so we are heating up this 2 year old post again, eh? kool.

 

Oh yes, I din't notice but this is indeed 2 year old post.

 

If you edit a post on Craigslist and your post contains a website link, your link will contain the NoFollow code. I didn't know what it meant, so I kept deleting it when I went to repost an ad.

 

If your purpose is only to build links than you should not follow
When you find rel="nofollow"...
Though i am believing to create such links are having this attribute, those links are giving my website healthy traffic...
But WAZZIM as per your signature links i am assuming that you are running own directory,
If you are making plan to use this nofollow in directory, than you won't be succeed.

 

We should leave this thread I think.. Ha ha.. It's funny if you get 10 answers of your question in only 1 month after waiting for 2 year