http://simonwillison.net/2019-09-10T21:16:53+00:00Simon Willison2019-09-10T21:16:53+00:002019-09-10T21:16:53+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2019/Sep/10/evolving-nofollow-new-ways-to-identify-the-nature-of-links/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/09/evolving-nofollow-new-ways-to-identify.html">Evolving “nofollow” – new ways to identify the nature of links</a></strong></p> Slightly confusing announcement from Google: they’re introducing rel=ugc and rel=sponsored in addition to rel=nofollow, and will be treating all three values as “hints” for their indexing system. They’re very unclear as to what the concrete effects of these hints will be, presumably because they will become part of the secret sauce of their ranking algorithm. <p><small></small>Via <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20930270">Hacker News</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google">google</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nofollow">nofollow</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/seo">seo</a></p>

2007-04-15T20:27:16+00:002007-04-15T20:27:16+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Apr/15/fading/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-04-15-n22.html">Fading Out Nofollows?</a></strong></p> Philipp Lenssen suggests automatically removing the nofollow from links in comments a few days after they have been posted, to allow administrators time to delete spam without penalising legitimate authors. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nofollow">nofollow</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/philipp-lenssen">philipp-lenssen</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/spam">spam</a></p>

2007-01-22T19:27:46+00:002007-01-22T19:27:46+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jan/22/nofollow/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-01-22-n21.html">Wikipedia nofollows links</a></strong></p> Wikipedia’s high PageRank means this is likely to have a noticable knock-on effect on the rankings of many other sites. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nofollow">nofollow</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pagerank">pagerank</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/wikipedia">wikipedia</a></p>