Use NoFollow Tags, Don’t Loose Page Rank, “rel=nofollow”
You’ve Gotta Use NoFollow Tags! (“rel=nofollow”)
The way that page rank works, is it flows from page to page and site to site through outbound links (”rel=nofollow” tag can stop this). Outbound links are like the pipelines that page rank flows through. Think about websites being connected together through plumbing pipes and water flowing through them in Page Rank. Every time you link to another site your letting this water (page rank) flow out of your site. There are some sites that you may want to give page rank to. If your website is new you don’t want to give out to much of your page rank value.
So how do you solve this, use “rel=nofollow”?
You can easily block your page rank value from going to another website while still having a link to them. You do this by adding a rel=”nofollow” tag. This way you can still add links that will be useful to your visitors, while keeping all your page rank trapped in your site.
How to add the rel=”nofollow” tag
Here are two examples one link doesn’t have the rel=”nofollow” tag the other does. In the end you want you link to look like the 2nd one.
Example 1.)
Visit my <a href=”http://www.example.com/”>discount pharmaceuticals</a> site.
That link would be transformed to
Example 2.)
Visit my <a href=”http://www.example.com/” rel=”nofollow”>discount pharmaceuticals</a> site.
By utilizing this “rel=nofollow” tag you can maintain all your page rank, without giving any away.
