Nofollow tag on links

There is a new Nofollow tag on links that can be used as of January 2005. Google announced on its blog 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.

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.