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Why are most blogs set to no follow external links?
nikunj patel
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31 Aug 15 11:37 am

Why are most blogs set to no follow external links?

Hello friends hope you doing well. Why most of the blog is no follow?
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maryt
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31 Aug 15 10:34 pm

 Hi,

Setting the external links (especially for comments section) to no follow is a safety precaution for blog owners in terms of SEO. Not all external links are helpful or beneficial to blog owners. Most of the times, the links in the comment section can hurt the blog site's page rank.
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carolinemurphy
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05 Sep 15 12:55 pm

 Because of spamming. People start promoting their keyword on irrelevant blog.
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happiness_is_free
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21 Sep 15 7:43 am

 I am totally agree with @carolinemurphy. Spammer prefer to dofollow blogs sites rather than no follow sites.
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nikunj patel
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21 Sep 15 12:53 pm

 Thanks @maryt and @carolinemurphy for this important answer. Here I found the answer of all seo question.
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davinmontrose
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23 Sep 15 2:26 am

 Yes, well keep in mind also...that in terms of SEO, most blog owners set their "external links" to "no follow" so they don't lose any valuable link juice that may be going into that particular page which may be helping it to rank.

The more external links that are "do follow", it would mean for each of them...a certain amount of link juice would be passed on to them through that page.
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tellsomething01_960
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23 Jan 16 8:37 am

 Adding the HTML attribute rel="nofollow" to a link effectively stops a link becoming a vote for another page, as far as Google and some other search engines are concerned.. This means the link does not count as a vote or recommendation nor does it pass page rank nor does it pass topical relevance.
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