The nofollow tag is a way publishers can tell search engines not to count some of their links to other pages as “votes” in favor of that content. Why would publishers need to block such votes? Doing ...

You may have heard some buzz recently about the noreferrer tag - especially if you have a WordPress site. I've noticed a lot of confusion about this tag in forums and discussion groups, and wanted to ...

We've asked SEO experts to explain the difference between Dofollow and Nofollow links, why they both matter, and how you can start building them. Before Google introduced the concept of Dofollow and ...

Nofollow was introduced back in 2005 and came about as a reaction to blog spam comments. Believe it or not, SEO professionals used to try and manipulate Google’s PageRank on their sites just as they ...

Google’s John Mueller clarified an important question about how Google treats nofollow links that are internal. This is important to publishers who use the nofollow attribute to block Google from thin ...

Google announced a change to the nofollow link attribute yesterday and with that announcement, Googlers spent the next day responding to questions about it on Twitter. I will go through what changed ...

As of Sunday, Mar. 1, Google is treating the nofollow link attribute as a hint, rather than a directive, for crawling and indexing purposes. Google is already treating all link attributes (sponsored, ...

Are nofollow links a waste of time? SEO practitioners have for years been told that nofollow links have zero value. It has become a mantra that has been repeated to the point where it has become a ...

Last night at SMX Advanced Matt Cutts of Google reportedly dropped a bombshell on the SEO community when he said that using the nofollow to PageRank sculpt might not work like you (SEOs) thought.