Rel="noindex in a guest post
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I'm guest posting on some sites and one of them placed my back link as follows:
I'm not sure what he's trying to achieve with the help of rel="noindex"? The first that jumps into my mind is that Google will index the post but skip my backlink. So, there's no sense in such a bakclink, ringht?
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Hi Vince
Not sure what they're trying to achieve there. That code will be ignored. The "noindex" command is meant to be used within a tag, such as: . It's not acknowledged (by Google anyway) as a directive in an <a> tag.</a>
<a>Would presume they're trying to use it in the same way you can use a rel="nofollow" tag, but this won't have the same effect.
Puts a little bit of doubt in my mind as to the integrity and quality of the site going forward, but that's probably a bit harsh.
In short, the link will be behaving just like a normal one would, at least for Google.
Hope this helps.</a>
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As such, I think the link will be followed normally (it would be as if someone added rel="banana" to the link).
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It would appear to me that this is an error on their part and that it should in fact be "nofollow", as far as I am aware the "noindex" rule should only be applied to the tag.
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