Using the _blank link attribute will cause the link to open in a new browser window or tab. But it is not as straightforward as it seems. It turns out that not only is the _blank link attribute a ...

Google announced a change to the nofollow link attribute yesterday and with that announcement, Googlers spent the next day responding to questions about it on Twitter. I will go through what changed ...

Yesterday at Search Engine Land I wrote how the Google blog turned off comments and how the nofollow link attribute wasn't able to save even that blog in terms of helping the comments become useful. I ...

Google Chrome is getting a new feature that increases security when clicking on web page links that open URLs in a new window or tab. When inserting links into an ...

Google newly expanded guidance on best practices for links has surprising parallels with what we know about algorithms and the proper use of HTML. Here are four takeaways found in Google’s updated SEO ...

Google has announced Tuesday that today the nofollow link attribute (i.e. rel="nofollow“) will be seen as a “hint” rather than as a directive for ranking ...

An HTML reference names a file for the browser to display. When a browser reads a reference, it displays the referenced file as if it were part of the file that it is ...