rel= external nofollow and rel=nofollow difference
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I have seen many people ask in forums what's the difference between rel=external nofollow and rel=nofollow,
Nofollow is a co-ordinated efforts from Google, yahoo , MSN to stop crawling links that are considered not trustworthy or spammy. Today many blogs, message boards, forums, news sites use nofollow tag to prevent spam in their comments or other areas of the blogs or forums. Now there is a new tag that is similar to rel=nofollow that is rel=external nofollow, external nofollow works the same as nofollow tag but this tag opens links in a new window instead of the same window. If you want to try just add rel="external" it will open the link in a new window. it sort of works like target=_blank. Target blank opens all hypertext links in the new window and rel=external nofollow, blocks all link juice and opens the link in a new window.
So if you find a blog that uses this dont get too excited, links from these blogs dont count. Move on and better luck next time
Nofollow is a co-ordinated efforts from Google, yahoo , MSN to stop crawling links that are considered not trustworthy or spammy. Today many blogs, message boards, forums, news sites use nofollow tag to prevent spam in their comments or other areas of the blogs or forums. Now there is a new tag that is similar to rel=nofollow that is rel=external nofollow, external nofollow works the same as nofollow tag but this tag opens links in a new window instead of the same window. If you want to try just add rel="external" it will open the link in a new window. it sort of works like target=_blank. Target blank opens all hypertext links in the new window and rel=external nofollow, blocks all link juice and opens the link in a new window.
So if you find a blog that uses this dont get too excited, links from these blogs dont count. Move on and better luck next time
7 Comments:
Thanks for the clarification.
That is not true at all. The "external" parameter will not make the link been opened in a new window (just try it). The "external" parameter only tags this link as external to your site, no more, no less.
By the way, @"Affordable web design", or whatever the heck your real name it is, your spamming attempt will be unsuccessful. You just created a "nofollow" link that will not be taken in account by Google. No PR+, no anchor text, no "vote", maybe (but I don't know exactly) that link will be completely ignored by Google. Bravo.
Joseph,
nice one ...haha...
"affordable web design and development india" - nice try..
i need to know this thing.
If you can see either "re=external nofollow"
or "rel=nofollow" in the pagesource
will whole blog become nofollow?
Am i correct?
Or if it is OK to be "re=external nofollow"
thanks for share
Actually it might help with the ranking because of the anchor text:
Google takes into account the anchor text for a previously indexed page.
See article on wikipedia (there's a table if you scroll):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow
well!!
landed here while searching for some details on "external nofollow"....
but when saw this interesting conversation, i wud like to share my opinion. Yes joseph, I also do maintain that if u put 'nofollow' to a link it doesn't give any benefit to the site in terms of SERPs on anchor text, no link juice (+PR) etc.
Bur, what I observed is, practically it is not the case. Yes, I observed that nofollow links also convey link juice to increase PR, give weight to the higher SERPs on keywords in anchor text and works very well as a normal links. May be there are some factors with nofollow links which may be taken in account by search engines, but this is what my observation is.... thats why I am also leaving a comment here...
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