05-19-2008, 07:27 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Melksham, UK
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Re: Are links from blog posts worth the effort?
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Does no follow link text still have an effect on SERPs and semantics?
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From robotstxt.org, Source.
The rel="nofollow" is an attribute you can set on an HTML <a> link tag, invented by Google, and adopted by others. Those links won't get any credit when Google ranks websites in the search results, thus removing the main incentive behind blog comment spammers robots.
See Preventing comment spam on the Official Google Blog.
From that description it sounds like it only affects the ranking, and the Google robot may still follow the links and index them. If so, it is different from the robots meta tag NOFOLLOW semantics.
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From the official Google Blog, Source.
From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel="nofollow") on hyperlinks, those links won't get any credit when we rank websites in our search results. This isn't a negative vote for the site where the comment was posted; it's just a way to make sure that spammers get no benefit from abusing public areas like blog comments, trackbacks, and referrer lists.
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I think it's safe to say 'nofollow links' have 0 effect on SERP's.
Hope that helps,
MJW.
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Last edited by MJW; 05-19-2008 at 07:36 AM.
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