Use of "nofollow" in Organic SEO
The "nofollow" attribute was introduced to avoid blogspam consisting of unneccessary messages to blogs in order to generate links to the blogspammers own website. Most blogs now come with nofollow setting activated - unfortunately blogspam remains still a problem. We are against all kind of webspam. Less know is that the "nofollow" attribute may also be used in on-site organic search engine optimisation.
While the "nofollow" attribute may be used in on-site optimisation Google sitemaps provides a bit similar possibilites by allowing the webmaster to indicate wich webpages are the most important ones. The nofollow attribute provides possibilites to control the distribution of Google page rank withing your website. However, do note that a incorrect use of the "nofollow" attribute may cause a considerable amount of harm for your business websites rankings rather than benefits. Organic SEO consultants at Relevant 1 can consult your business on how to the use of the "nofollow" attribute in organic search engine optimization (optimisation).

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