: Rel="nofollow" in img tags? Does it make sense to have a rel="nofollow" attribute in img tag? Do search engines' crawlers use this attribute in some way for calculating PageRank score? What is

@Ogunnowo487

If you use rel="nofollow" attribute in img tag than you will miss the img alt tag from the GSEPR. nofollow is better for stop spamming from the comments or other links which are not related with <a> tag which may decrease your PageRank. So better is using a code for your image without rel="nofollow" like this: <img src="" alt="" class="alignleft"/>.

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@Pierce454

The rel attribute is only for a and link elements. The nofollow value is to keep a web crawler from following that link (which might have affected the linked page's ranking based on your own). It keeps spammers commenting on blog posts from gaining any page ranking from linking from the blog (or discussion forum, etc.). It doesn't make sense for img elements and furthermore an img with a rel attribute is invalid, which may lower your relevancy score by a search engine.

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@Berumen354

You should use rel="nofollow" on links that should not be rated for link popularity. You want this to be true for links that are not under your control (i.e. forum posts).

It does not matter if it is a text or img link. But in both cases only valid for the surrounding anchor tag.

Best example may be stackoverflow.com itself here: have a look at these Wikipedia links in your answers here. StackOverflow uses rel="nofollow" for it, because they cannot guarantee link quality for user generated content.

And even more important: it reduces spam-posts, because these links do not "count". So it does not make sense to spam for pushing link popularity.

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