Just in case it wasn't clear from all the replies here, using an unknown rel-attribute on links doesn't do anything, and since the default behavior is to use links normally, this just treats links ...

Last week with my post on hCard format I started a good tradition: overviewing microformats in an easy-to-understand way and learning to use them with help of tools. This week I am following up with a ...

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 ...

The nofollow tag is a way publishers can tell search engines not to count some of their links to other pages as “votes” in favor of that content. Why would publishers need to block such votes? Doing ...

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The rel sponsored and rel ugc attributes are being monitored by Bing and are “not as strong of a signal for Bing,” we were told. This may change based on adoption rates over time.