What's the meaning of "external nofollow"

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by hotpop, Oct 27, 2006.

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    I found a link with following format
    <a href='http://www.*****.com' rel='external nofollow'>
    What's the meaning of "external nofollow"?
    Thanks
     
    hotpop, Oct 27, 2006 IP
  2. smartgirl

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    It means that the site owner instructs the SE not to follow therefor not to give value to the site the link points to.If you were to exchange links with another site and the link to your site has 'external nofollow' then the link is worthless for gaining link popularity.
     
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    Richie_Ni Illustrious Member

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    rel="external" = "This is an external link" (most are)

    rel="nofollow" = "Do not catalogue this link"

    rel="external nofollow" = "This is an external link, do not catalogue it."

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Nofollow
     
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    can any one suggest What is the significance of "external" in terms of SE spiders?
     
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    External dont have significance, i think, its only for client side, to say the explorer "Hey, this link is going out of my site so please open it in new page", i think.

    nofollow - to tell the spiders not to follow this link, for google - it won't follow the link and won't give it pr as it should from the link source.
     
    Morishani, Oct 27, 2006 IP