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BonkersAbtTech · 04-16-2017, 06:01 AM

Nofollow refers to an anchor link on a webpage that has the following attribute attached to it:

rel="nofollow"

So if you were to inspect the source code of a "nofollow" link you'd see the following:

<a href="www.randomwebsite.com" rel="nofollow">Random Website</a>

It's basically a signal to search engines not to count it as part of a website's link profile. It was designed to stop spammers.

bidaddy · 04-18-2017, 12:34 AM

Nofollow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct search engines bots that a hyperlink should not influence the link target’s ranking in the search engine’s index. It is intended to reduce the effectiveness of certain types of search engine spam, thereby improving the quality of search engine results and preventing spamdexing from occurring in the first place. This is a concept introduced by Matt Cutts and Jason Shellen in the year 2005.

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BonkersAbtTech Registered User Join Date: Nov 2016 Posts: 14	Nofollow refers to an anchor link on a webpage that has the following attribute attached to it: rel="nofollow" So if you were to inspect the source code of a "nofollow" link you'd see the following: <a href="www.randomwebsite.com" rel="nofollow">Random Website</a> It's basically a signal to search engines not to count it as part of a website's link profile. It was designed to stop spammers. __________________ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

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