Re:The danger of target=_blank and opener
by CM30 on Saturday September 15, 2018 @03:08PM
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100% agreed with this. In fact, this obsession with adding nofollow to links is likely both why Google results have suffered a bit in recent years and also why Google is apparently starting to ignore the nofollow attribute on some links altogether. Use nofollow where it's relevant, not as some blanket rule for every external link on a website.
https://searchengineland.com/nofollow-links-not-useless-earn...
Re:The danger of target=_blank and opener
by move-on-by on Saturday September 15, 2018 @04:49PM
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Right, this recommendation only makes sense for user-generated content where you've been infiltrated by spammers trying to improve their page rank. It doesn't make any sense at all in the context of controlled content
> Also for SEO consideration, rel="nofollow" is also recommended.
If you are linking to another site, that helps said site's SEO ranking. If you use this in a way that the search engine views as cheating, the other site is penalized.
But as long as you and the other site are being fair, then you SHOULD link to them - they are obviously providing good content that you think is important, so why try to hog the credit and not give them the ranking they deserve.
Sitye like Stackoverflow do this to cut down on spam, (and perhaps because they want Google to view them as the original), but for a blog or whatever, why would you recommend this?