SEO Tycoon

**v999** · 06:02 PM

Is this link, copied from another site, a nofollow or dofollow or a redirect?

Or is it useful/helpful/good if a link to http://www.electriciantoronto.ca/ had HTML like this?

<a href="http://www.electriciantoronto.ca/" rel="/story/2009/11/20/electriciantoronto.ca/?clickthru" class="clickthru">Read Full Story at electriciantoronto.ca</a>

or what does this rel="/ ..... mean?

**chrishirst** · 11-21-2009, 07:48 PM

It isn't "nofollow".

there is no such thing as "dofollow"

the "rel" attribute is short for related, and it means nothing at all other than being used as a reference, no browsers use the rel attribute on anchor elements and only (some) search engines recognise the "nofollow" value.
The only other use for the rel attribute is on link elements with the value of "stylesheet"

**v999** · 11-22-2009, 08:54 AM

chrishirst, thank you very much.

Most importantly it isn't "nofollow"!

Let me ask you another Q, if I may?

Obviously rel="nofollow" makes link a nofollow link, or makes it useless for the purposes of Google SEO

What else could make a link useless for the purposes of Google SEO?

or what HTML or Java coding should people pay attention to learn if the link they are placing and spending time on is worthwhile or useless?

Thank you again

**chrishirst** · 11-22-2009, 09:10 AM

Quote:

Obviously rel="nofollow" makes link a nofollow link, or makes it useless for the purposes of Google SEO

Not necessarily.

Quote:

What else could make a link useless for the purposes of Google SEO?

Chasing links full stop (period for the murcans)

**v999** · 11-22-2009, 12:41 PM

Chasing links full stop (period for the murcans) -------------- I do not understand that. In plain English pls

**chrishirst** · 11-22-2009, 01:17 PM

a full stop (.) character is the terminator for a sentence, this character is called a "period" by the Americans.

**v999** · 11-23-2009, 07:40 AM

this character is called a "period" by the Americans. -------------- Got it!

Now let's get back back from grammar lesson to another SEO question.

rel="dc:source nofollow d31AhMM"

My Q is: Does nofollow within any other rel="........." text make the link a nofollow link?

**chrishirst** · 11-23-2009, 07:50 AM

absolutely no idea at all, test it and see if the target page gets indexed or not.