Google | Yahoo | MSN | Cooperatively Introduce rel=”follow” tag

By Andy Beard | Published: April 7, 2007

I missed this a few days ago

At the request of WhiteHat SEO community on April the 1st this year all major search engines including Google, Yahoo and MSN Live declared their joint support for a newly developed XFN standard.
The new attribute rel=follow is designed to complement the notorious rel=nofollow. However unlike nofollow attribute rel=follow is designed to express not negative but positive relationship between a linking website and a website rel=follow link points to.
I’ll try to explain it in layman’s terms…

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4 Comments

  1. Dave Davis (3 comments.)
    Posted April 8, 2007 at 1:02 pm | Permalink

    Hahaha, nice find Andy. Of all the tomfoolery that went on that day, this one was my favorite! Much better than some stupid “My site got hacked” / “I got sued” / “I’m quitting blogging”.

  2. Nobody0 SEO (1 comments.)
    Posted April 8, 2007 at 8:53 pm | Permalink

    Hi…
    It’s first april joke…)

    rel=”Follow” not working ;)

  3. Andy Beard (1685 comments.)
    Posted April 8, 2007 at 8:57 pm | Permalink

    Did you notice I bolded certain words?

    It was a good one, made me laugh, and I thought it deserved a mention, even if a few days late.

  4. Miami Fl Real Estate (1 comments.)
    Posted April 10, 2007 at 3:15 pm | Permalink

    LOL… So what if you combine nofollow AND follow? Do the internet tubes overflow with link juice?

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