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A value for the rel attribute in a HTML tag

Setting the rel attribute in a <a href> tag to "nofollow" indicates that the hyperlink should not influence the target's ranking in a search engine's index. It is intended to diminish the effects of certain types of advertising.

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Wikipedia Page on nofollow

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Why would Wikipedia show set external links as rel="nofollow"?

I understand that rel="nofollow" is a safe way to link to external sites but why would Wikipedia refuse to link to other sites without the nofollow? Is this a matter of trust with the community? Wouldn't there be something good in SEO for Wikipedia…
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What is the difference between "nofollow" and "noreferrer" link from SEO perspective?

I want to know the main difference between "nofollow" and "noreferrer" link from SEO perspective.
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What is the difference between "nofollow noopener" vs. just "nofollow"?

I use the WordPress plugin Ultimate Nofollow to easily make links as nofollow. So I expected that plugin will add rel="nofollow". But it added rel="nofollow noopener" Is there a difference between rel="nofollow" vs. rel="nofollow noopener"?
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Rel no follow on EVERY link?

Forgive me for asking such a simple question, I understand why you would want to rel nofollow untrusted links (forum posts, blog comments etc), but why would you not want to do it on EVERY link on your website? I know it's greedy and perhaps…
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How to handle hundred of external links in a site?

The site I am working on has few hundred distributors, each one has its own page, and a link to that distributors website. Some of the distributors have multiple locations and so they have multiple pages with the same link. Should I put a…
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Ratio of No-follow & Do-follow Backlinks

I know that when it comes to obtaining backlinks, a no-follow is pretty much worthless. However, does Google (or other major search engines) penalize for sites that have nothing but do-follow links? I have heard a long time ago (back in 2007) that…
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Should I put rel="nofollow" on author link?

We have just launched a new ecommerce shop. At the very bottom there is an anchor linking to our company website (a little advertisement, if you like). The SEO experts told us to put rel="nofollow" to all external links. This seems a little odd to…
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Should I use rel="nofollow" for social media links?

The question here is whether I'm passing juice to my Facebook, Yelp pages etc. I do want those pages to rank higher than those of competitors, but am I hurting my site by having these sitewide links without the rel="nofollow" attribute?
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How important is that we use REL="NOFOLLOW" in external links?

I hear to improve pagerank and other SEO factors, we should use rel="nofollow" on links to external sites. Why is this? So if I'm not using rel="nofollow" will search engine bots credit the linked site more than my website for the information…
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What is meaning of "nofollow me noreferrer" in a rel attribute of a link?

Recently I was checking the source code of a website. I was expecting the links to do follow or no follow but what I observed was this: What is the meaning of this full line?
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Overriding nofollow rules with meta tag

I'm using a blog that automatically nofollows links in spite of manually dofollowing links in the HTML code. so I decided to put this code: in the head of the blog to enable following for my…
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Why Google put a nofollow tag on their homepage?

Why did Google put a nofollow tag on their homepage? Find an ATM near you is a nofollow link. They own the content on the same domain name. If it is a different domain name then it may make sense as it will pass pagerank, and that it will somehow…
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Do search engines still crawl a noindex page

Do search engines crawl a page that has a 'noindex' meta attribute? The reason I ask is because we have near duplicate content caused by faceted navigation and the filtered pages have stated 'noindex' and I was wondering if these pages would still…
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Should I add rel=nofollow to menu links?

Should I add rel="nofollow" to the links from my site menu? (To links like: home, about us, contact etc. that don't have any connection with the site niche.) Does this helps? What other options do I have?
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rel="nofollow" SEO effect

Google Webmasters Tools shows rel="nofollow" links as a backlink. I believe that rel="nofollow" helps SEO and PageRank but according to many people it is not. What is your idea about this? Did you see that rel="nofollow" links also helps your rank…
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