Comments on: Understanding Off-Page SEO and the Nofollow Attribute

By: Mark Mason

Mark Mason — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:27:39 +0000

@jaspert — links are follow unless they have the rel=”nofollow” attribute set. I am not aware of a tag that will “counter” nofollow or a need for it. Comment links on my blog are nofollow until you have nine comment. Then your links are dofollow.

Thanks!
Mark

By: jaspert

jaspert — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:32:31 +0000

Thanks for this SIMPLE explanation ! It’s a shows you know what you are talking about and is understandable for guys like me. I am not in this job, but lately spend most of my time with it, as I am not serious and have no SEO clients, I can be very inventive, and don’t loose much trying risky things. The Nofollow doesn’t bother me so much, a well made comment on an authority site will also show up in search, making one more “entrance” to my site.
I just started getting aware of rel tags , and was wondering if there is a rel tag that would be the contrary of “nofollow” , and would cancel “nofollow” (told you I try everything) ?
Is this link going to be “Nofollow” ?
Thanks again
Stephane

By: Kent F

Kent F — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:52:28 +0000

Hey Mark – sounds great. I know Matt Garrett has recently said the exact same thing. So…how do we implement this on blog posts? Thanks!

By: Mark Mason

Mark Mason — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:55:52 +0000

Kent;

Let’s say you have an affiliate link in a post, and you do not want to send link juice to that affiliate site. Simply add the rel=”nofollow” attribute into the link in the anchor, right after the href attribute.

You can do that on the HTML editing page (not the Visual Page) in the WordPress post editor.

Check out the photo credits above for examples of nofollow links.

Regards,
Mark