SEO effects on the rel=external tag?
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) | (3)
Lately I’ve seen a lot of people in the forums and other places asking what the rel=”external” tag is? And does it carry any SEO effect?
People seem to confuse this tag with the rel=”nofollow” tag, which is meant for to not pass any Pagerank (or Google Juice) to the sites you link to. Well, let me start with saying that the rel=”external” tag has nothing to do with the rel=”nofollow” tag.
So what is rel=”external” then?
rel=”external” does nothing except notifying the browser to open the link in a new window (or tab). It does the very same as target=”_blank”, except that ...
