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Why would Wikipedia show set external links as rel="nofollow"?
One of the ways search engines determine what Google calls “PageRank” is by the number of incoming links, with more weight given to sites with high page-ranks (NB: I will use this term as the generic ...
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What is the difference between "nofollow" and "noreferrer" link from SEO perspective?
The difference is that, in theory, rel="noreferrer" should not have any SEO impact, while nofollow clearly specifies that the link does not endorse in any way the target URL.
nofollow was invented by ...
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What if using rel="dofollow" and rel="nofollow" together for a link?
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.
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What is the difference between "nofollow noopener" vs. just "nofollow"?
nofollow will give you granular control to individual external links such as a webpage you don’t necessarily endorse or an internal link you want to prevent bots to access or index such as your ...
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Should I put rel="nofollow" on author link?
The seo experts told us to put rel="nofollow" to all external links.
Trying to massage PR (for want of a better term) in this way sounds like a very outdated concept to me. Is e-Commerce any ...
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Do search engines still crawl a noindex page
Yes, Google still crawl webpages that have noindex tag.
But if you have same content on two different webpages and one URL contain noindex tag, while second does not, then you should not worry about ...
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Do search engines still crawl a noindex page
As Goyllo has already stated, search engine bots will crawl pages that have a noindex meta tag. If you think about it, they need to crawl the page in order to see the noindex meta tag in the first ...
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What is meaning of "nofollow me noreferrer" in a rel attribute of a link?
Rel attribute can contain multiple value. Here is reference link.
The value of this attribute is a space-separated list of link types.
<a href="http://www.website.com" rel="nofollow"/>
<a ...
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Should you use nofollow links to original sources?
In my opinion you are overthinking this.
I recommend using dofollow for any link that you as the writer endorse as worthwhile, relevant content.
I recommend using nofollow for any link that's been ...
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What if using rel="dofollow" and rel="nofollow" together for a link?
The tag rel="dofollow" doesn't exist, it does nothing if anybody uses it.
Having two rel attributes in the same tag is an error, regardless of their value.
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rel="nofollow" On Quality User Supplied Links
if the linked to page is context appropriate and of a high value wouldn't it be better to allow the passing of pagerank?
Quite probably yes. But unfortunately, in the real world, for arbitrary user ...
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What is the difference between "nofollow noopener" vs. just "nofollow"?
rel="noopener" is used so that when a new window is created upon clicking a link, malicious javascript code running in the new window will not access your previous window via the window.opener ...
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Should links to PDFs have the 'nofollow' attribute?
No-no-no, don't let Semrush misguide you. It is indeed only your decision about indexing/deindexing of PDF.
In general, Google loves PDFs. I would noindex them only in case they dublicate the ...
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Our website has thousands of incoming nofollow links, does this help our SEO or is it useless?
What you have to know about rel="nofollow"
There are many different opinions, on this question, but the most important thing you need to know about it is that it won't harm your seo if you use ...
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rel="nofollow" on randomly generated internal links
Showing random post from your site is a pretty common practice, adding rel="nofollow" to such links makes no sense at all because it goes against what nofollow really means.
nofollow just indicates ...
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Why would Wikipedia show set external links as rel="nofollow"?
There's a couple of reasons why any website (including Wikipedia) that welcomes user content today would make links as no-follow.
Links can become outdated and may even return error pages (example: ...
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SEO effects of footer attribution link to website builder's site
I'll not recommend using external dofollow footer links cause:
Many of them will be off-topic so your ranks will not be affected
Multiple links from the same domain (for SEO it's better quality than ...
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How to deal with data-sheet and product PDFs which are repeated over the web?
Google usually tries to index the authoritative, original source for such content. Ideally Google would index the copy of these PDFs on the manufacturer website. Manufacturers that are removing ...
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Should you use "rel=sponsored" on internal links?
I wouldn't. This might rub some the wrong way, but unless the site gets a ton of traffic (thus the primary benefit) and building authority is not a goal, I can't imagine why anyone would want to pay ...
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Browser seems to automatically add 'nofollow' to links, even though it's not in the page source
As this is happening across all browsers I'd say it's unlikely a browser extension is doing this. Although still check if it happens with any turned off.
Failing that, it may be that the site is ...
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What is the difference between "nofollow" and "noreferrer" link from SEO perspective?
"nofollow" is used by Google, to specify that the Google search spider should not follow that link
"Noreferrer":
Specifies that the browser should not send a HTTP referrer header if the user follows ...
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Should I add "rel="nofollow" to editorial, non-sponsored links to commercial websites?
No, these would be considered natural editorial links and thus its perfectly reasonable to pass 'link equity' to these sites.
Some sites do apply nofollow to all links, but personally i dont think ...
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difference between `<meta name="robots" content="nofollow" />` and `rel="nofollow"`
The same as rel="nofollow" in a link (apart from the fact the the meta tag would be page wide rather than on a per link basis)
Yes, same as rel="nofollow", except the nofollow in the meta tag applies ...
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Should I put rel="nofollow" on author link?
Nofollow is a value that can be assigned to the rel attribute of an HTML a element to instruct some search engines that the hyperlink should not influence the ranking of the link's target in the ...
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How can I tell if a site uses dofollow or nofollow links?
There is no such thing as dofollow, if you can't find either nofollow on the page or site then it is assumed that all links are follow.
You can tell if a site is no follow by viewing the source code ...
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How can I tell if a site uses dofollow or nofollow links?
Right Click to on your browser and click “View page source”or use short cut key ctrl + U
Next, Search the nofollow.
If you see a rel=”nofollow” attribute, in that link than its nofollow. Otherwise, ...
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How to link and pass absolutely no link juice
Nofollow is what you are looking for. It doesn't pass any link juice and google wont open or save them.
In general, we don't follow them. This means that Google does not
transfer PageRank or ...
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rel="nofollow" On Quality User Supplied Links
Here are some options that make you situation safe with google and other search engines:
If you have no script programming experience (For example, if you build websites using point-and-click ...
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Impact of adding 'nofollow' in relation to my own website
Using rel="nofollow" on external links will not increase or decrease your own rankings. It may however increase theirs or decrease. Generally when SEO link audits take place they look to remove low ...
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Even nofollow links can hurt my website?
Marketing and general people advice you do not worry about nofollow outbound links, but matt cutts said nofollow link sculpt your pagerank (check 4th and 5th Question). I don't know weather it is ...
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