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 ...

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 ...

A Google Webmaster Help thread has one webmaster who runs a home construction resource complaining that his rankings tanked. After some back and forth, Googler, JohnMu came in and said: I browsed your ...

Google's Matt Cutts posted a video yesterday on the topic of PageRank sculpting using the nofollow attribute and/or using the nofollow attribute on internal links. Here it is: In short, Matt says do ...

Google announced a major change to how nofollow links are counted. Previously nofollow links were treated as a directive, meaning Google obeyed the nofollow, period. Starting today, for ranking ...

Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller advises that the nofollow link attribute isn’t a substitute for the noindex directive. Googlebot is capable of can finding and indexing nofollowed links. So it ...

Google’s news Tuesday that it is treating the nofollow attribute as a “hint” for ranking rather than a directive to ignore a link, and the introduction of rel ...

What does this mean? To put it as simply as possible, the nofollow tag signals search engines to ignore a link. The destination URL doesn’t get a boost in search engine rankings, as nofollow links don ...

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 ...

Digg announced a seemingly small, but rather interesting change on its blog today: It has added a “rel=nofollow” tag to every link on the site that it doesn’t trust. What this means is that all the ...