rel= nofollow What is this?

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    What is the effect of rel=\”nofollow\” attribute in a link. I see most blogging software use this. Can anyone please explain. Thanks
     
    nvidura, Dec 23, 2008 IP
  2. Lexiseek

    Lexiseek Banned

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    It means the comment won't be counted in Google's link popularity algo.
     
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  3. M3rC

    M3rC Peon

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    In Other words, a link from that page won't give you any link juice or PR value :)
     
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  5. greatme

    greatme Active Member

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    It's a command that that search engines will not follow or crawl the link included with it.
     
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  6. Lovely

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    #6
    The purpose of the rel="nofollow" attribute is to create HTML links which can be viewed and clicked by normal web users, but which will not be counted as a link by the search engines.
     
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  7. OinkOink

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    #7
    Wikipedia gives the best description...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow
     
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  8. cheapez

    cheapez Active Member

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    I'm not sure about the rel=nofollow, I have links on some very high pagerank sites and they all are nofollow links, but in my webmaster tool, they are showed as backlinks, they still there yesterday I checked.
     
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  9. mixke

    mixke Prominent Member

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    You sure? Cos Google doesn't count no-follow links but Yahoo! does.
     
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    It just mean that the linking page/site wont pass any PR juice ;)
     
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    So, how about in the phpLinkBid script? There is a section in the directory configuration that ask...Use `nofollow` for links (Yes) or (No)? How would you want this set?

    What are the differences for you...the webmaster and them...the link customer?
     
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    #12
    If there is no "no-follow" in the url means it's do-follow?
     
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    rel=nofollow links are not counted as a link by the search engine.
     
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    #14
    Emmm...NOT! Possibly misinformed.

    Everybody on this thread above has it right :)
     
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    #15
    Webmaster tools will show links regardless of whether they are nofollow or not.
    But it would be nice if webmaster tools highlighted the links that were nofollow, and/or gave the PR of the links you have pointing to your site.

    Cheers
    James
     
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  16. nvidura

    nvidura Well-Known Member

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    This is horrible. One of the SEO tools i purchased, searches blog entries (WordPress, etc) with higher Page Ranks and post comments... It is really sad to learn that those links have no SEO values. :(
     
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    many backlinks of my site are nofollow. but they can shown up in google tools or yahoo search.
    i wonder if those nofollow backlinks do help to me/ you can seethose backlinks throught search my site for
    link:www.babatek.com.
     
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    Blocking thr link from Google BOT
     
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  19. nvidura

    nvidura Well-Known Member

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    What you mean? Links with DP ?
     
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    #20
    just simple search engine not crawl rel=nofollow links
     
    eposdirect, Dec 24, 2008 IP
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