Is this a true rel=nofollow for the whole article? "printfriendly.com" is part of the URL which is why I'm confused.

[dklarse]

Is the rel=nofollow tag on this article a true NoFollow for the whole article (and all the external links to other sites in the article), or is it just for a specific part of the page?

Here is the article: https://www.aplaceformom.com/blog/americans-are-not-ready-for-retirement/

The reason I ask is that I'm confused about the code since it has "printfriendly.com..." as a portion of the URL. Your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[GastonRiera]

Hi there!

I do not know what you mean by a true nofollow link.
What i can see is that there are 6 nofollow tags in that page, what means that google bot will not go from that page to those other in the href tag with nofollow.

Remember that Nofollow tag is an invention in order to control spammy pages and/or links to other pages that webmasters do not want to link.
Google information is very usefull: Use rel="nofollow" for specific links - Search Console Help.

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR

[ThompsonPaul]

That nofollow link only applies to that one specific link, dk. The site is using a special service to help create a printer-friendly version of the page for those that might want to print out the content. Quite correctly, they've nofollowed that one particular link.

The website's own page URL only appears in the external link to the printfriendly site because it is a parameter that needs to be passed so the print site will know what page to provide the printout of.

So no, that nofollow definitely does NOT apply to the whole article.

Make sense?

Paul

[dklarse]

Paul,

Thank you! Yes, I realized I could use the Moz bar to highlight the links that were followed and no followed and came to the same conclusion. Thanks for your insight!

Dana