Tag Archives: nofollow

Enough With This Nofollow Crap

Over this past weekend I was visiting a popular forum where a new member asked if external  links they created counted to the overall link count of their page. The first answer they got was “only if the link is a dofollow”.
Up until now I haven’t really weighed in on the nofollow debate but I [...]

The No Follow Effect

Over the past few weeks I’ve been digging in to the use of “no follow” and what effect of using the attribute has on links. Everybody seems to have their own opinion on the subject so I thought I’d spout my own.
What is “no follow”?
Back in 2005 Google adopted the no follow attribute (rel=”nofollow”) as [...]