John Mueller of Google said on Twitter "people make all kinds of links, and we ignore a lot of links, but at their core, links are not about SEO anyway." He then shared a spreadsheet of the results of ...

Occasionally I stick funny things in my link attributes just to see if anyone would pick up on it, no one does. After John tweet this, he had to then come back and clarify, as to not set some SEOs off ...

Google’s John Mueller answered a tweet about the proper use of nofollow for SEO, while agreeing with the tweet, he also pointed out a nuance about the nofollow attribute that was missing. The tweet ...

Nofollow was introduced back in 2005 and came about as a reaction to blog spam comments. Believe it or not, SEO professionals used to try and manipulate Google’s PageRank on their sites just as they ...

As of Sunday, Mar. 1, Google is treating the nofollow link attribute as a hint, rather than a directive, for crawling and indexing purposes. Google is already treating all link attributes (sponsored, ...

Google has announced Tuesday that today the nofollow link attribute (i.e. rel="nofollow“) will be seen as a “hint” rather than as a directive for ranking ...

Google Chrome is getting a new feature that increases security when clicking on web page links that open URLs in a new window or tab. When inserting links into an ...