Nofollow tag on links

The Nofollow tag on links began its use on websites in January 2005. Google announced on 18 Jan 05 that it is now accepting use of the rel="nofollow" tag on links. This is a great tool to stop people leaving links on places you don't want them - or to stop there being any benefit in the links existing - Google will not assign page rank or link text value from the links.

<a href="http://www.example.com/" rel="nofollow">discount pharmaceuticals</a> site.

Typically this has been done on whole pages via either the robots.txt file in the root directory of a website, or specific tags on each page. Now the nofollow tag is able to be added to specific links as well.

The only problem, is that Google won't redistribute the remaining PR aroudn the rest of the links. PR that would have gone through that link is wasted. So don't try and use nofollow to try and conserve PR.

Quote from Googleguy on searchenginewatch -

those links won't count toward PageRank for Google. So no need to wrap things up in JavaScript--feel free to use nofollow.

Other comments about the nofollow tag on links (SearchEngineWatch).

Contact MarketItOnline now - we can help you apply this nofollow tag to your website, and help you clean up link spam, or places where you don't want Google to follow.