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Nofollow

Nofollow is a setting on a web page hyperlink that directs search engines not to use the link for page ranking calculations. It is specified in the page as a type of link relation; that is: <a rel="nofollow" ...>. Because search engines often calculate a site's importance according to the number of hyperlinks from other sites, the nofollow setting allows…

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Concept and specification

Spam in blogsBloggingGoogleMatt CuttsBlogger
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Use by websites

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Interpretation by the individual search engines

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Concept and specification

Introduction and support

Interpretation by the individual search engines

Use by websites

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Qualified outbound links

Blocking and excluding content from search engines

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Map overview Semantic statistics

Nofollow

Nodes41
Edges40
Triples59
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.04878
Components1

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Nofollow

Top relations

related to Introduction and support · 14
Nofollow → As, Bing, Cutts, Google, GoogleBot, However, In, March, Matt Cutts, On June, PageRank, Prior, The, Yahoo
related to Concept and specification · 12
Nofollow → Believing, Blogger's Jason Shellen, Google's Matt Cutts, IETF, Lock-gray-alt-2, Lock-green, Lock-red-alt-2, RFC, The, Thenofollowvalue, W3C Patent Policy, Wikisource-logo
related to Control internal PageRank flow · 12
Nofollow → About Us, Contact Us, Google, However, Matt Cutts, PageRank, Privacy Policy, Search, Service, Several SEOs, Terms, This
related to Qualified outbound links · 8
Nofollow → Additionally, Google, In, On September, The, These, User-generated, WordPress
related to Interpretation by the individual search engines · 5
Nofollow → Ask, Bing, Google, While, Yahoo
related to Use by websites · 3
Nofollow → Many, More, Some
see also · 2
Nofollow → Link, Search
is a · 1
Nofollow → setting on a web page hyperlink that directs search engines not to use the link for page ranking calculations

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Important terminology

links pagerank link google search engines page internal use cutts webmasters matt engine may ranking website also comment spam announced

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Nofollowis asetting on a web page hyperlink that directs search engines not to use the link for page ranking calculations0.90text
user-contributed commentsinstance ofmay be used to denote content0.80text
forum postsinstance ofmay be used to denote content0.80text
Nofollowrelated to Concept and specificationThenofollowvalue0.60section
Nofollowrelated to Concept and specificationBelieving0.60section
Nofollowrelated to Concept and specificationGoogle's Matt Cutts0.60section
Nofollowrelated to Concept and specificationBlogger's Jason Shellen0.60section
Nofollowrelated to Concept and specificationThe0.60section
Nofollowrelated to Concept and specificationW3C Patent Policy0.60section
Nofollowrelated to Concept and specificationIETF0.60section
Nofollowrelated to Concept and specificationLock-green0.60section
Nofollowrelated to Concept and specificationLock-gray-alt-20.60section

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