2005-01-18 - Posted on the Google Blog by Matt Cutts, Google Software Engineer and Jason Shellon, Blogger Program Manager "From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel ...

nofollow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct some search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target's ranking in the search engine's index.

a href="http://my-own.net/alias_of_target" rel="nofollow" >Link where 'alias_of_target' is the alias of target address. Note however that this prevents users from being able to ...

What is Nofollow? Nofollow is an attribute that can be added to links to discourage Comment Spam. It is used with the rel=" "attribute in a link.

Update: The ChromEdit extension I mention below is stale and doesn?t work with Firefox 1.5. Someone has made a version for FF1.5 though; it?s called ChromEdit Plus.

The new link tag attribute - nofollow - and how to use it. ... It's not often that a tweak in HTML is major news, but the announcement that the major search engines would support a ...

Patents . This specification is subject to a royalty free patent policy, e.g. per the W3C Patent Policy (http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/), and IETF RFC3667 ...

Many people use rel=nofollow on links to pages on their site like ?privacy policy? and ?about us.? This practice seems counter-productive.

I have a lot of subforums on my site and I show these subforums on forumhome. My question is would there be any benefit of me adding rel=nofollow to the subforum links on ... rel ...

I noticed that, for some reason, rel=nofollow is NOT being added to FORUM links...the ones where you make a forum and make it an external LINK instead of an actual forum...is ...

Yahoo Slurp following rel="nofollow" links: jbladeus: Yahoo: 17: Dec 19th 2006 3:47 pm: rel="nofollow", text must bespidered, links not followed: ray1983: Google: 9: Dec 11th 2006 12:09 pm

Yahoo Slurp following rel="nofollow" links (from Yahoo) ... I just checked backlinks of one of my sites on yahoo site explorer and noted that the first site being shown in the ...

rel="nofollow" for internal links Thread Starter: petri007 Started: 02 Jul 2008 7:07 AM UTC Replies: 1

rel="nofollow" tag to links & Archive.org Thread Starter: webmgr Started: 19 Dec 2007 5:11 AM UTC Replies: 1

SEO test with the goal to observe the weight search engines place on rel='nofollow' anchor text. This time, the nofollow test page will be linked twice: first without nofollow ...

Has anyone tried putting rel="nofollow" in their affiliate links? Does this do anything positive or negative? _____

Should I put rel="nofollow" on the link to my comments page? A: Probably not, because lots of interesting discussion can happen there. Also, if other people link to your comments ...

rel=?nofollow? Reading between the lines (which in this case isn?t particularly hard), this and this (don?t forget to view source) suggest that Google are soon to announce ...

The major search engines Google, Yahoo, and MSN Search as well as several blog vendors/communities like Six Apart have announced support for a link attribute specifically meant to ...

Search Engine Optimization Articles and Concepts ... When to use it? I use this in my comments section before I moderate them.

nofollow is a possible value of the attribute rel in the markup of HTML. Many search engines, such as Google, rank pages based on the number of other websites that link to them ...

It seems that some people are getting mixed signals about the difference between using the attribute/value pair of rel="nofollow" anchor links, disallow from robots.txt files, and ...

Hi, How can I make the links inside a post to rel="nofollow", but for posts of a one/some category? Thanks,

rel="nofollow" type links - Sitemap Generator Forum ... Hi No probs with the generator all works great. Except that I can't see anything to make it obey the rel="nofollow ...

rel=?nofollow?, is said to be the next biggest thing to be used by shady webmasters engaging in reciprocal link exchanges. This attribute was introduced by Google as a means to ...

This is a compendium of our experiments and the experiments of others to determine how the major search engines currently treat the nofollow attribute.

All url s entered into posts have the nofollow tag appended. I see why, but... I have a niche web and mostly all url s entered into discussion will be on-topic, not general ones.

By default, whenever anyone comments on your blog WordPress will add rel=nofollow in the link. I didn't realize this was something that WordPress actually

Does Google Count Rel Nofollow Links? ... Changing Hosts... We are moving to a good hosting company in a hurry so some pages are missing or not working correctly, hopefully ...

There seem to be opposite opinions regarding effectiveness of rel="nofollow" attribute in affiliate links. Some SEO's strongly recommend to use it as, they say, it prevents website ...