How Search Engines Handle The Nofollow Attribute

Loren Baker at Search Engine Journal has a nice write up on how the search engines handle the nofollow attribute now just over two years since it was introduced. Ask.com still does not follow the tag, so here are the takeaway for Google and Yahoo: Google won't follow the link, Yahoo will (note) Google ...
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Apr. 30, 2007 at 7:15am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Wikipedia's Double Standard On Nofollow Rule

... , in an effort to reduce Wikipedia spam. If you visit the Wikipedia page on Wikia, you may notice some external links do not contain the rel="nofollow" attribute. Techcrunch calls them out for it.
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Apr. 30, 2007 at 10:04am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Meta Robots Tag 101: Blocking Spiders, Cached Pages & More

... . It looks like this: <meta name="robots" content="index"> There's also a form you can use that adds the command "follow," which tells the search engines to index your page and also follow any links they find on that page to other pages, which they can then index. ...
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Mar. 5, 2007 at 8:48pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan

From My Inbox: More Defense Of SEO

... wasn't just SEOs upset with Wikipedia. Plenty of people dislike the fact that they benefit so much from inbound links but refuse to credit outbound. Nofollow hasn't stopped people from trying to get links -- there's still value there. The problem, fundamentally, is they have a system that lets anyone ...
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May. 11, 2007 at 6:49am Eastern by Danny Sullivan

The 2007 Paid Links War, In Review

The paid links debate is back, this time about whether Google wants all links in a paid post to have a nofollow attribute. Below, a look at the latest round, plus a recap of this year's "War On Paid Links" by Google and where the other search engines stand on the subject. The current round ...
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Dec. 31, 2007 at 10:18am Eastern by Vanessa Fox

There's No Such Thing As A Worthless Link

... weather the update storms. For that you need authority or "quality" links. All links count in some way, even those cloaked in things like nofollow, robot.txt, or a third party tracking code. These types of links may not be SEO friendly, but they do work and depending on where they sit, can ...
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Jan. 14, 2008 at 1:26pm Eastern by Debra O. Mastaler

No, Advanced SEO Does Not Mean Spamming

... it that some people could wonder if advanced SEO means spamming search engines? And have I been contributing to this confusion? For the record -- no, advanced SEO doesn't mean you have to spam. Not in my book. But as SEO has matured, I find myself wondering if the importance of good site architecture ...
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Jun. 9, 2008 at 10:32am Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Fall Cornucopia Of Linking News

... is near. Good. For 15 years I have been building links for web content for hundreds of sites, and I have never once submitted a client's site to the no-names. And even though I have been a DMOZ editor for almost ten years, I have to go on record as saying the time has indeed come to either morph into ...
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Oct. 15, 2007 at 12:30pm Eastern by Eric Ward

A Survival Guide to SEO & Wikipedia

... engine marketers have been particularly fond of Wikipedia for an entirely different reason: its page rank. That is, until Wikipedia implemented a no-follow rule, indicating that outbound links should not be followed by search engine spiders. One would think that this move would kill all interest in ...
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May. 8, 2007 at 6:12am Eastern by Sara Holoubek

Redirects: Good, Bad & Conditional

... .g., "?photos=ON" versus "?photos=OFF"). Or when multiple domains or subdomains respond to the request with the same content but no redirect (e.g., "jcpenney.com/jcp/default.aspx" and "www1.jcpenney.com/jcp/default.asp" and "jcp.com/jcp/default.asp" and ...

Aug. 7, 2008 at 7:59am Eastern by Stephan Spencer