Targeting Spam > What is NoFollow?
[Digg / Business & Finance / upcoming] NoFollow is a HTML tag you can place on a link to tell search engines not to follow that link. The link will not pass any link juice to your site.
Some related posts from Technorati and Google.
[Kevin Burton's NEW feedblog] Google Sites Jumps the rel=nofollow Shark: I’m glad Kevin is saying nofollow is not the web (outside of the blogs and comments it was designed for) and in this world view you can only give Google Juice and it doesn’t give back. Such a view and action only favors those in a dominant network position.
[Ross Mayfield's Weblog] Nofollow Default on Google Sites: As I've blogged about for some time now, nofollow tags are not a fit for wikis. Kevin Burton notes it is the default for all links in Google Sites:.
[SEO News] Flickr Encourages Nofollow Tags: Recently, Flickr - the photo sharing site has started using nofollow tags in its individual photo descriptions. So why will the users be bothered?
[Comments for Andy Beard - Niche Marketing] Comment on Ultimate List of DoFollow & Nofollow Plugins - Banish ...: Before I started the Bumpzee community I was looking to create just a directory, that would have taken user submissions, fully navigated by tags, RSS feeds of content from each blog, include a full description of each blog, including screenshots.
[Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog] Linking Q&A: Its going to get the most link juice, theyll get crawled, etc. All youre doing if youre using nofollow is pushing the juice to the most important pages.
[Search Engine Roundtable] Linking Q&A: Matt: The value is that those links have higher PageRank but the algorithm doesn't really factor (if link == edu or if link == gov). Q about the nofollow with Ask vs.
[Sebastian's Pamphlets] Nofollow still means dont follow, and how to instruct Google to ...: Maybe Google’s algos dealing with client sided outputs need more than 24 hours to assign JS anchor text to link destinations; time will tell if nobody ruins my experiment with links, and that includes unavoidable scraping and its sometimes undetectable links that Google knows but never shows.
[Revenue Source] Sold a nofollow link!: Once again, proof that not everyone is buying links for Google juice - I just sold a nofollow link ad via LinkWorth on a site that has about 60 feedreaders and under 5,000 uniques per month, but is good for someone trying to brand their stuff. The link sold for $40, of which I’ll keep $20.
[Lonewacko] Flickr now using nofollow tags: About a year ago, Youtube - apparently prompted by Google - added the anti-web nofollow tag to an increasing variety of their outbound links (except for some links, such as those which were on content...
[searchnewz: Combined RSS Feed] Google Reconsideration or Reinclusion Request: All that being said, I had no intention to break the Google guidelines, and if what is required for the Google Toolbar to truthfully depict the authority of my website is for my editorial links in paid reviews to be blocked from Google in some way, I am going to comply.
[Search Engine Roundtable] SEO and Blogging: Coca-Cola (and they should remove the nofollow on their entire blog) - Donald Trump - General Motors If companies like this are blogging, there's really no reason why you can't. Wrap it up: - quick and easy way to add content to your .
[CNET News.com | Tech news blog] Flickr adds nofollow tags to photo descriptions: In the process of reviewing a client's Flickr account with my colleague and fellow Searchlight blogger Brian Brown, we noticed that Flickr has recently added nofollow tags to links placed within its Web site. Flickr has been one of the few social-media entities to continue to offer "link juice" from links placed with user-generated content (in this case photo descriptions), making it a viable entity for improving inbound links to a given site.
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