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The rel HTML attribute describes the relationship between the elements content and the current document.

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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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meaning of HTML "

I have met the following HTML code: blah And I am wondering what is the effect of the "douche" attribute.
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Do “noopener noreferrer” links count as backlinks?

I have bought ad links in some websites with a link, but when I saw the sites, they add an attribute noopener noreferrer on my website link. Does Google count this as backlink?
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Are the "author" and "publisher" link types still relevant for Google+? (2016)

I was searching a lot regarding rel=publish and rel=author but got some doubts because most articles are from 2013 and 2014. First, I understood that Google is not showing author's picture in SERPs since 2014. I also read that it simply ignores the…
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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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rel="nofollow" in img tags?

Does it make sense to have a rel="nofollow" attribute in img tag? Do search engines' crawlers use this attribute in some way for calculating PageRank score? What is the practical sense for using it (if any)?
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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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About the tag

I'm trying to figure out how to use it. I understand that this tag tell Google which page is the root parent / parent of the current page. So, for example, on a page that's listing a product from a certain category, the rel="index" value should be…
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rel=author and rel=me without Google profile

Based on the post at Google Webmasters, a Google profile seems to be needed for rel=author to work. But this post on our forum does not indicate that. How do I implement rel=author and rel=me without any Google profile?
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Should rel="noopener" be set on links to external sites even if I own the site?

We've had a policy to always set rel="noopener" for all external links. However is that necessary if the external link is to a site in our own control? Let's say we own both coffee.example.com and milk.example.com - should we add those attributes…
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rel="next" in anchor tag is not working

I have 100's of duplicate meta description issue in google webmaster tool because of the pagination. Pagination pages are showing as duplicate in tool. So I added the rel="next" and rel="prev" to the pagination link anchor tags. But it seems like…
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Rel = translation

I can't find much online about rel="translation" We have tutorials and manual entries which we are going to get users to translate. If the original page in English is: http://www.scirra.com/tutorial/start And there are two…
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Does a ` with a non-matching media value download sync or async, render-blocking or non-render-blocking?

I'm looking for an authoritative reference with regard to whether with a non-matching media attribute value downloads synchronously or render-blocking or neither. MDN helpfully draws attention to Scott Jehl's experiments from…
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Should I remove rel next/prev from a single WordPress article?

First of all, this is not a question of 'how to remove', it's a question of 'should I remove'. I've just noticed rel next and prev links on our single WordPress blogs. I'm not sure if they are new from an update, or if I have just never noticed them…
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