Do you hate it when the comments
section of your article gets flooded by spam links and unhelpful
feedback? Information sites get that all the time. Even worse, these
comments aren't about to stop anytime soon. To counter this threat,
especially in blogs, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft in 2005 joined
forces and created "nofollow."
The "nofollow" is designed
to not include outgoing links, which is common in spam comments, as
votes to a website's credibility. This can be done with the following
syntax:
<a
href="http://www.mywebsite.com" rel="nofollow">My
Website</a>
This is a basic HTML link tag with
the "nofollow" attribute added. Googloe won’t consider
any link specified in this code as a vote up. A basic link tag
without "nofollow" looks like this:
<a
href="http://www.mywebsite.com">My Website</a>
Today's blogging services
automatically add "nofollow" to the code, but adding it
manually can be useful if you're designing a website from scratch.
"Nofollow" doesn't ban any type of link from the comments
section, but it won't be counted in favour of the website as far as
credibility goes. In addition, having too many "nofollow"
attributes won't be considered spam by Google.
If "nofollow" fails to
reduce the number of spam links in the comments section, Google can
still take manual action. Any act of spam despite "nofollow"
will be responded to accordingly.
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