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Rel="external"
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Hi all,
I got a link and its off a site and marked up with rel="external". Is this a followed or nofollowed link? Does it pass link juice?
Thanks
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Hey Robin-
I agree with Nakul - no worry about the link juice not flowing. If you have rel="nofollow" then the juice stops. The neat thing is you can combine the two attribute values as long as you put a space between them like rel="external nofollow".
Hope that helps!
John -
Yes, no need to be worried. You are good. rel="external" is the XHTML valid version that informs search engine spiders that the link is external. However, using this does not open the link in a new window. target="_blank" and target="_new" does this, but is not XHTML valid. I hope that helps.
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