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nofollow is a value that can be assigned to the rel attribute of an HTML a element to instruct some search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target's ranking in the search engine's index.

nofollow is a value that can be assigned to the rel attribute of an HTML a element to instruct some search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target's ranking in the search engine's index.

It is intended to reduce the effectiveness of certain types of search engine spam, thereby improving the quality of search engine results and preventing spamdexing from occurring.

Example:

<a href="http://www.example.com/" rel="nofollow">Link text</a>
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Using noindex and nofollow to avoid duplicate content penalization

Scenario: I own a website with original content. But to support some categories I use creative commons licensed contents, which is, of course, duplicate content. Question: If I want to avoid penalization for duplicate content, are this statements…
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How should I render a widget with many links inside a blog so google don't penalize the blog?

We run a service (will not mention the URL, as this is not a pitch) and need advice on Google-viewing-links matters. The service is for bloggers and allows them to create a "linkup" inside their blog post. The linkup is like a mini pinterest inside…
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PHP - Add rel=nofollow to outgoing links

I have a website with many pages, a custom php website. The site works with a database that is growing all the time (with a php code that i dont write, so messing with that code is not my first choice) I am looking for a method (maybe using DOM…
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noindex nofollow for a url that contains some words

I have a site that contains many urls that are being indexed by Google for example: https://www.cedarscottages.com/book/online/select/March-1659 https://www.cedarscottages.com/book/online/select/March-1635 But they have the same content and Google…
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Ask About Nofollow link on wordpress post

I have been searching many plugin and have tested too, but none of them have time date feature option for nofollow-ing the links. I mean, for example, all link will be automatically change to nofollow after 1 month. Please help, Thanks
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How to no-follow all external links automatically - jQuery

I want to add rel="nofollow" attribute in all my external links. Below code works well on links comes with http:// and https://. my problem is its not worked on links without http (ex: /somepage.html) how can i over come this. Any solution highly…
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How to solve 404 errors with iframe tag

Recently I'm getting 404 error on webmasterstools in google. This is my website http://www.farsnews.in. I use iframe tag to show the content of a web page in my contents. I've used the iframe tag by rel=nofollow but i think Google doesnt pay…
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Website url whitelists

I'm building a user content parser and am adding an automatic link parser. I'm adding a dialogue, that confirms that the user wants to go to the particular site being linked to. This is for two reasons. Anti phishing and spam combating. However I…
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Mark all links inside a certain div as nofollow

Has anyone tried writing a piece of code that would 'scan' a content of a certain div, and modify every link inside it so that it adds rel="nofollow" to each link? I'm asking, because i can't add nofollow tag to certain links on my page, but since…
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How to add nofollow filter to wordpress tags on single.php

I want to be able to add a nofollow filter to my tags on single pages. I have this code that displays the tags... php if( tie_get_option( 'post_tags' ) ) the_tags( ''.__( 'Tagged with: ', 'tie' ) ,' ', ''); what codes do I need to add so that the…
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nofollow functionality for error404.php

My header.php contains header information for all my pages, but for the error404.php page needs the nofollow meta data meta name='robots' content='noindex, nofollow. I tried this in header.php
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noIndex, noFollow and Canonical Tags on Facet Page SEO

We realized that we have a large number of duplicate pages of our eCommerce site indexed in Google especially the large number of facet urls such as color pages, Price pages etc. These are already indexed each having a canonical url pointing to…
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Search Filters and SEO -- nofollow, canonical, or nothing?

I have an eCommerce site that I am working on. The primary way customers find products is by filtering down results with a search menu (options include department, brand, color, size, etc.). The problem is that the menu creates a lot of duplicate…
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Blocking links in robots but inluding sitemap

Can I for example, include User-agent: * Disallow: / in the robots and then include all of the links i want including the home page in the sitemap and multiple other sitemaps and have them be indexed? Does that work? I have noticed one of our…
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how to add nofollow tag to links in joomla3.2

I have joomla 3.2 site. I have included many sidebars on different pages. Now i want to assign the nofollow tag to all the links of sidebar. so, how can i add rel=nofollow tag to all those links? here's link to mysite and here's screenshot of my…
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