You want to use no follow tags so you don't bleed page rank to the other person's website which means it takes it away from your site. The Google spiders won't be able to read the tag.
HubPges inserts "nofollow" into all links in these Q&A.
And, Google Blogger fans note: Google universally and arbitrarily inserts "nofollow" tags into all links in post page comments whether they are OK with you or not. More reason to host your own sites and blogs (e.g., WordPress).
So, if you put links on sites that make them "nofollow", they do you no good in Google search.
The real reason for no follow link tags is that it is meant to allow authors to link to a page, without passing any "link juice" or pagerank or whatever on to that website. It is a way of saying "this page, but I don't like it"
Some people use it to manipulate page rank, whcih is against guidlines. Some people also do it to give users a link, without themselves being penalised.
Not nonfollow it's nofollow means the name itself resembles not follow. Google wouldn't crawl the tags which are nofollow and they are seems to be useless.
The Nofollow tag was introduced by Google sometime in 2005 as measure to prevent the ever-rising blog comment spam. People were complaining, so Google thought an "off switch" of sorts would be the best course of action.
What the Nofollow tag does is if it is applied to an outgoing link, then no pagerank will be passed along. Effectively, the link is useless in terms of SEO.
However, it is still good practice to obtain Nofollow links, as it is a natural part of link-building.
Don't believe someone who says you should apply Nofollow on all your out-bound links on your site. You won't "leak" any "juice", trust me.
For me the purpose of it is to keep away your site from any spammers who want to link in your site in order for them to get numerous back links.
by Cuttler 12 years ago
How does one boost their traffic using google meta tags?I have been trying to boost my traffic and I heard using webmaster tools is one way to go. However am not tech savvy and I totally dont know how to go bout it. Help please. Thanks guys
by Susannah Birch 14 years ago
I thought I knew the answer to this question. But something interesting happened in the last week which I found it hard to explain. I'd be interested to hear opinions.I have a hub which is nine months old and had just reached 250-300 hits per day.I was experimenting to see how many tags I could use...
by Helen Cater 15 years ago
I just read a reports that if you have more than 100 URL's on a page the search engines don't like it. Is this true as I have checked mine and everysingle one has more than that. Is this one of the reason lots of top hubbers have very few comments in their hubs, and why some even delete them.
by TIC Publishing 14 years ago
The tags you put in when creating an article... are those HTML META Tags? Google stopped paying attention to those in like 1999, and I don't think any important search engine uses them -at all-Is there any use in filling them in?
by Dorsi Diaz 12 years ago
I've finally found my niche in writing (hey it only took 5 years to realize this - duh) Anyway, it's all about creative stuff - art lessons, design, etc. So when using WordPress for my own website where I am posting alot of my art related stuff, how many tags do I want to keep my site too? Do I tag...
by ryankett 15 years ago
And indeed my hub rating, after doing something with my hubs.It may seem like stating the obvious, but I went through all of hubs and put the absolute maximum number of tags that I could before it said "you have too many tags" or whatever it says. When it said that I had too many tags I...
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