{"id":3018,"date":"2014-07-27T10:17:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T04:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susanta.com\/blog\/?p=3018"},"modified":"2021-09-04T06:49:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T01:19:54","slug":"lets-nofollow-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susanta.org\/lets-nofollow-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Nofollow Google"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fundamental criticism is that we are getting a Google-shaped web rather than a web-shaped Google, due to Google’s defacto monopoly position.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re an IT guy, you must be familiar with the no-follow tag often used in the HTML pages across the Web.<\/p>\n

However, if you are not in the SEO game for a while, you may have missed Google\u2019s despotic stand on no-follow in recent times, especially in 2014.<\/p>\n

Yes, Google has been demonstrating a great deal of high-handedness and dictating terms over how the webmasters should use no-follow tags while linking out externally.<\/p>\n

Google has been handing out penalties to many renowned blogs on the Web accusing them of violating its TOS (Terms of Services) for no good reason, causing widespread frustrations among the SEOs.<\/p>\n

What is a No-follow Tag?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

According to Wikipedia<\/a>, nofollow is a value that can be assigned to the rel attribute of an HTML a<\/strong> 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 internet advertising because their search algorithm depends heavily on the number of links to a website when determining which websites should be listed in what order in their search results for any given term.<\/p>\n

The Google Webmaster Tools resource says “Nofollow” provides a way for webmasters to tell search engines “Don’t follow links on this page” or “Don’t follow this specific link.”<\/p>\n

Watch this video by Matt Cutts, head of the Webspam team at Google<\/p>\n