URL blocked

[Paul78]

Hi there,

I have recently noticed that we have a link from an authoritative website, however when I looked at the code, it looked like this:

<a <span="">href</a><a <span="">="http://www.mydomain.com/" title="blocked::http://www.mydomain.com/">keyword</a>

You will notice that in the code there is 'blocked::' What is this? has it the same effect as a nofollow tag?

Thanks for any help

[Matt-Williamson]

Did you by any chance send your link to this website in an email? I have seen this before when a site has copied a piece of code from outlook - it is a security feature in outlook to add this blocked::. It shouldn't have any impact on your link juice from this link, it is not the same as nofollow. Though for piece of mind I would email them and ask them to remove that piece of the code if you are not happy...

[Paul78]

Hi Matt,

Indeed, a few months ago I sent a paragraph of text by email to be changed on that article, and no doubt this is the reason why. I have had it removed in the last 10 minutes or so, just for piece of mind.

Thanks for clarifying the issue.