When <a rel="nofollow"> tag needs to be used?

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    Can anyone please tell me when and why we should use <a rel="nofollow"> in html code?
     
    mrbarakat, Mar 19, 2012 IP
  2. maathewdavis

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    The "nofollow" attribute makes it so a link will not be indexed by search engines. It has to do with search engine optimization, and will make it so that particular <a> will not create a backlink for whichever site you are linking to. No follow tags have been criticized, because they don't really serve a purpose, other than making it harder for someone's site to be SEO'd well.
     
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    sites use them to keep spammers away
     
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    Mostly, the nofollow attribute is used to stop spam on the web page by blogger but except it, we can also use this tag for many situation such as :

    When linking to the same page many times from one page
    At the time of internal linking
    Paid links and ads
    Untrusted content
     
    Alan Smith, Mar 20, 2012 IP
  5. mrbarakat

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    Thank you very much for your detailed answer. This will help me definitely. Thank you again.
     
    mrbarakat, Mar 21, 2012 IP
  6. Joshua Pitts

    Joshua Pitts Well-Known Member

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    When I have a page that has multiple links to the same source, then that is when I use the nofollow tag.
     
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    If our website link in sample means, then we should use this no follow tag to link the sample. Then only it does not affect the PR
     
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    For avoiding spammers ....... !!!!!
     
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    nofollow is a value that can be assigned to the rel attribute of an HTML a element to instruct some search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target's ranking in the search engine's index.example :- href="any site name " rel="nofollow" you should write in tag 'a'
     
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    Google announced in early 2005 that hyperlinks with rel="nofollow" would not influence the link target's PageRank. In addition, the Yahoo and Bing search engines also respect this attribute value.
     
    imranamen6, Mar 23, 2012 IP