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How to Create a nofollow Link

Posted by User ImageLuke Zet | August 4, 2008 .

What is a nofollow link?

Few years ago Google, Yahoo and Msn have united to and accepted the nofollow attribute, which was created to reduce the spam links in forums and blog comments. This means that every link which is created without nofollow attribute, is being indexed by Google, Yahoo and other major search engines. Every time you are giving a link to the other site, you are making a vote for this or that blog or website, thus giving a point to them. As you might know incoming link (back-link, or inbound link) has a great influence on blog’s or website’s popularity, which is known as Page Rank. And It is not a secret that spammers do everything to get those links.

Nofollow SpidersWhy using  a nofollow attribute?

The thing is that you can and must link somebody when you are running a blog or a website, but did you consider that Google may penalize or even lower your Page Rank, if your link is a paid one? For example you write a promotional article and some money maker is paying you for that! Or you have got a spam comment but you really need that comment to be in your blog- simply change the spam link with nofollow attribute and you are done. This are some of the main reasons why Google created such attribute.

In general we use a nofollow attribute to tell Google spiders not to crawl this or that specific link.

How to create a nofollow link?

Usual link looks like this in Html:

<a href=”http://www.example.com/”>Linked Text</a>

This is how it looks like with rel=nofollow attribute shown in bold.

<a href=”http://www.example.com/” rel=”nofollow”>Linked Text</a>

or

<a rel=”nofollow” href=”http://www.example.com/”>Linked Text</a>

You can use any of the above mentioned examples to create more efficient and money making blog.

Remember: The whole money making process consists from small technical and  informational details.

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17 Comments so far
  1. no imageToni (Who am I?) August 5, 2008 6:57 pm

    Thanks for the info!!! I am starting to understand more, but a lot of this stuff I still don’t get!!! lol

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  2. no imageLuke Zet (Who am I?) August 6, 2008 11:46 am

    Ok If you can say what was unclear I will be very thankful. I will be Glad to Optimize this Post to make it more effective. ;)

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  3. no imagemxyzplk (Who am I?) August 7, 2008 7:36 am

    what about for exchange review like we do before? or a review, does google penalize if we do some exchange reviews? so do follow comment is not good for our pagerank health?

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  4. no imageLuke Zet (Who am I?) August 7, 2008 1:36 pm

    It doesn’t penalize for link exchange! In this case such review is the same. So don’t worry about that - :) It’s just cool. I know some people say that, but that was not the reason Google created the nofollow attribute. Another thing is that when giving a lot of links to bad websites it may lower the Page Rank. My PR has moved up on 3 points so it is a good thing when you link and get a backlink from higher PR.

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  5. no imageLuke Zet (Who am I?) August 7, 2008 1:39 pm

    Yes and about Comments it is absolutely True- Most blog comments are set on nofollow by default. So we try not to create do follows for comments. ;)

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  6. no imageshawal (Who am I?) August 10, 2008 7:45 pm

    Great Tips……

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  7. no imagebantingboy (Who am I?) August 15, 2008 8:28 pm

    thanks. I didn’t knew about that. :)

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  8. no imagePamela Kramer (Who am I?) August 15, 2008 10:47 pm

    Thanks for the post! I know there are some people out there questioning whether to follow or not follow. I’m not sure if this clears it up for me or not. I may have to go back and read it again. lol

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  9. no imageLhurey (Who am I?) August 16, 2008 12:58 pm

    That is the easiest way.

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  10. Gem August 18, 2008 9:19 pm

    No follow links keeps one’s blog page rank intact!

  11. no imageProfit Blogging Tips (Who am I?) August 26, 2008 3:34 pm

    I put away to nofollow from my comment link. And now there are many commenter’s in my blog. I think the trend nowadays is like this: Give your visitors a reward by putting away the nofollow attribute.

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  12. no imageWei Liang (Who am I?) August 30, 2008 9:04 am

    ‘nofollow’ blog often make people turn off from commenting on your blog. That is because your readers also hope to get some traffic from your blog to theirs. Try to reward your readers at times by turning it on to ‘follow’ blog.

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  13. no imageEliot (Who am I?) September 4, 2008 1:31 pm

    But how Google penalizes you? Do they have a blacklist or something? How do they know that a link leads to a “bad” side?

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  14. no imagePuneet (Who am I?) September 11, 2008 5:07 pm

    Also using this tag on my site

    Before i was not using it, but now after using this tag … i have seen some changes in my site rankings too.

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  15. no imageTechnoSamrat (Who am I?) October 24, 2008 4:38 pm

    Thanks for the info… But what is rel=”external nofollow” and how does it differ from just rel=”nofollow”??

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  16. no imageLuke Zet (Who am I?) October 24, 2008 5:18 pm

    @TechnoSamrat An external nofollow is something like telling the crawlers that it is an external link, but I don’t think there is a big difference between just nofollow and external nofollow.

    Here is a description on how crawlers understand it:

    rel=”nofollow” - it says: (Do not count this link)
    rel=”external nofollow” - it says: (It is an external link do not count it)

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  17. no imageDhadha (Who am I?) November 4, 2008 8:51 pm

    thanks for the helpful information.. :)

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