According to a Wikipedia definition, “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.”  From the client side of things, when you first look at nofollow, it seems that […]

There are always going to be things people aren’t going to like in the world of SEO, such as the constant changes that are being made by Google that seem to thwart marketers efforts to rank well on the search engines.  One thing that many people tend to not have much love for is ‘nofollow’. […]

This morning, the head of Google’s search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a video where he strongly recommends that anybody please placing widgets on their sites, or those who distribute widgets, should place a nofollow on the links within the widget code. Matt Cutts said, “I would recommend putting a nofollow, especially on widgets.” The reason […]