rel=”external” and rel=”nofollow”
December 12, 2007 – 8:06 pmrel=”external” is the new target=_blank. If you’re using rel=”external”, you could be passing Pagerank to the targeted webpage.
Here’s an example in HTML code: < a href="http://www.abc.com" rel="external">abc.com< / a >
On the other hand, if you do NOT want to pass any Pagerank to the targeted webpage, you would us rel=”nofollow”. As of this year, there’s been a lot of Wordpress blogs and other bloggers that are using rel=”nofollow” because there are some people or SEOs out there that are using the comment feature of a blog to send free one way links to their targeted website.
As more bloggers become aware of rel=”nofollow”, you will see a lot of blogs using this to prevent SEOs from leaching off their website’s Pagerank.
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