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SEO: What Are NoFollow and DoFollow Links?

February 22, 2010

Linking, whether you’re linking to another site or your site is being linked to, is an important part of SEO (search engine optimization). How a site treats links is important because it can determine how search engines treat those links as well. Specifically, I’m talking about whether a site uses NoFollow tagging within its links. [...]

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I’m using WordPress. When I added the ChiliTried button to my sidebar and I click on it, the link tries to put MY URL before the chilitried URL, even though in my text widget, only chilitried.com is there. What’s wrong?

October 18, 2007

Thanks to Jordan McCollum at MamaBlogga for this answer. The problem here is that when you type the link, you MUST include the "http://" part.  Otherwise, the browser thinks it’s a "local link" (i.e., a link leading to a page on your own site).  Just add the "http://" in front of www.chilitried.com. 

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