Trying to abide by NoFollow rule...

With Google's recent crack down on paid links without NoFollow tags, I want to make sure I don't do anything to get penalized. The problem is I don't know any sort of html. I'm hiring a designer to do everything for me. The only thing I can do is work in the back office of wordpress. In other words, I know how to write/publish articles and that's about it. So I have two questions.

1. If I was to tell my designer to put NoFollow on the entire site, would that work? What happens when I give credit to another website/blogger for something on his site, but then don't give him any PR love. Does that look bad for me?

2. Is it possible to insert NoFollow tags without knowing html?

 

You only have to put nofollow on paid links? If you put nofollow on all links, that'll be really weird. imho.

 

If you don't understand what to do, it means the "rule" isn't very well-defined.

 

Not a rule, more of a guideline. And if you do it on ALL links, that would indeed be weird.

 

Just add no follow to the outgoing paid links. You can do that in wordpress by clicking the code view when editing (if the links are within the posts which I am assuming they are) and then adding the no follow tag to the URL.

Like this:

Before nofollow

<a href="http://www.example.com/">Example anchor Text</a>

to this:

After nofollow

<a href="http://www.example.com/" rel="nofollow">Example anchor Text</a>

Easy as that

Hope this helps.

Jez.

 

Ahh simple enough, thanks!

 

also if u want to be even more safe put one of those redirect things
example

<a href="http://www.example.com/">Example anchor Text</a>

After nofollow and redirect

<a href="http://www.ghforum.net/su.php?url=http://www.example.com/" rel="nofollow">Example anchor Text</a>

the http://www.ghforum.net/su.php?url= would be my redirect

But if u want to step up another level make the redirect script like blocked in your robot.txt and in meta tags place no index

like this one
http://www.ghforum.net/noref.php?url=

 

Well, apparently you *should* use nofollow on certain types of links...

However, I find it very intrusive that I'm told how to reward people on the net by giving them a link. As a rule, I totally ignore the nofollow guidelines and let all links follow.

 

How does google detect if a link was paid or not?

 

I own a site based on affiliate model and that has too many outgoing links. Wil they all not be termed as paid links. As a precaution I have put no follow with all of them.

Is it right or wrong

 

I have also been thinking about adding nofollow to all outgoing links from my site.. I do not sell links, (not that anyone would buy one from a PR-0 site )
But I do have a few pages with a lot of links on, and I do not know how google works out if a link is paid or not, so I think its better to be safe than sorry..

I know from the examples here what the code is, and where to put it on a normal link eg

<a href="http://www.example.com/" rel="nofollow">Example anchor Text</a>

Code (markup):

but I have links with target="_blank"> etc..

So where would the nofollow tag go in the following link?

<a href="http://www.example.com/" target="_blank"><span class="sidebarHeader">Example anchor Text</span></a>

Code (markup):

Any help appreciated

Cheers
James

 

you just leave it as it was...just have the no follow somewhere in there !

<a href="http://www.example.com/" rel="nofollow" target="blank">CLCIK ME</a>

 

James,

Like this:

<a href="http://www.example.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span class="sidebarHeader">Example anchor Text</span></a>

Code (markup):

But, I would not do it. I would not recommend adding nofollow to all your outgoing links. The net is made of links it's what makes it a net. The danger is if everyone starts to do this that there really will be no web. Just google! [Disclaimer - writer may present a slightly futuristic view ]

If you are not selling links, and the links go to reputable sites that compliment your site then you are doing nothing wrong and don't need to worry.

Jez.

 

'Jez'- could not have said it better....there could be a long term problem with no-follow...for google;-)

 

I think it's good practice to add nofollow to affiliate links (if that's what you mean). You have nothing to lose by this.

Jez.

 

if you are using Wordpress, you can add "NoFollow" to all links easily by install NoFollow Plug in

Download the NoFollow plug in here

http://www.mattgeri.com/2007/12/01/wordpress-plugin-add-nofollow-to-wordpress-posts/

 

Thanks Jez, I think you may be right.. when I was reading the Google blog They seem to say to add the nofollow tag to comments to prevent comment spam on blogs.. I only have a static site, which only I update. So maybe adding the nofollow tag may be a bit of an over kill.. But.. I dunno.
Anyway.. Reps added where appropriate.

Cheers
James

 

1. If you put nofollow on all links, it will results in only the main page keeping all the link juice. Internal pages will not get any, and so does outgoing links. Over-using nofollow may also be seen as bad practice. Only use nofollow on sponsored/paid links or some other stuff that you do not want to credit link juice for.
2. It's easy to make links nofollow. Just add 'rel="nofollow"' without the quotes in a link, e.g.: <a rel="nofollow" href="link to somewhere">some text</a>