No such thing as dofollow:
The dofollow
attribute does NOT EXIST in either rel
or meta
, this is due to the fact that by default both pages and links are considered dofollow
unless you use nofollow
.
Meta follow is not to be confused with dofollow <meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow">
Despite MASS belief follow and dofollow have nothing in common other than the fact they share a similar name, it has absolutely no bearing on passing of page rank. Meta Follow it simply informs search engines to discover content on the receiving end of links...
A page that is not indexed by Google or Bing will not pass juice period. Also, the usage of content="noindex, follow"
is pointless because simply using content="noindex"
informs search engines to follow links unless you use content="noindex, nofollow"
.
Rel dofollow is invalid markup:
SOURCE
<a href="#" rel="dofollow">test</a>
Bad value dofollow
for attribute rel
on element a
: The string dofollow
is not a registered keyword.d.
Using duplicate REL is invalid markup:
SOURCE
<a href="#" rel="nofollow" rel="rel">test</a>
Error: Duplicate attribute rel
.
Example of valid markup using multiple rel
values:
SOURCE
<a href="#" rel="nofollow me">test</a>
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