This link has been bookmarked by 11 people . It was first bookmarked on 14 Dec 2007, by chrisbp.
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07 Aug 09
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06 Apr 09
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ngine "Don't score this link" rather than "Don't follow this link."
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Follows the link Yes Yes Yes Yes - 6 more annotations...
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Indexes the "linked to" page No -
SEOs have suggested that pages such as "About Us", "Terms of Service", "Contact Us", and "Privacy Policy" pages are not important enough to earn PageRank, a
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nofollowon internal links have cited an inappropriate attribution to Matt Cutts -
support for using the technique,
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never actually endorsed the idea.
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t to view the use of
nofollowon internal links as a silver bullet or quick-success sol
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08 Sep 08
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02 Jan 08
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- Google takes "nofollow" literally and does not "follow" the link at all. That is supposedly their official statement, but experiments conducted by SEOs show conflicting results. They show instead that Google does follow the link, but does not index the linked-to page, unless it was in Google's index already for other reasons (such as other, non-nofollow links that point to the page).[8] Links with "nofollow" are included in the backlinks reporting data at Google's Webmaster Central.[9]
- Yahoo! "follows it", but excludes it from their ranking calculation.
- MSN Search respects "nofollow" as regards not counting the link in their ranking, but it is not proven whether or not MSN follows the link.
- Ask.com does not use the attribute for anything.
How the attribute is being interpreted differs between the search engines. While some take it literally and do not follow the link to the page being linked to, others still "follow" the link to find new web pages for indexing. In the latter case
rel="nofollow"actually tells a search engine "Don't score this link" rather than "Don't follow this link." This differs from the meaning ofnofollowas used within a robots meta tag, which does tell a search engine: "Do not follow any of the hyperlinks in the body of this document.".[edit] Interpretation by the individual search engines
While all engines that support the attribute exclude links that use the attribute from their ranking calculation, the details about the exact interpretation of the attribute vary from search engine to search engine.[7][8]
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14 Dec 07
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30 Mar 07
m cassimatisan HTML attribute value to instruct search engines th a hyperlink shld not influence the link-target's ranking in th search engine's index. respected by ggl, yahoo, microsft. vs spamdexing - link spammers. /+ re wkp choosing not to use
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