What does rel="nofollow me" do?

Question

I notice on SO userpage all urls have rel="nofollow me" (i was thinking of putting nofollow on my site so i checked here to see what SO does). What does the 'me' part do?

Svend

Answer 1

This is a combination of two independent uses of the rel attribute.

• rel="nofollow" tells search engines to ignore the link when ranking pages.
• rel="me" is a microformat

Cirilla

"nofollow" doesn't mean the link should be ignored, it means it should be followed but should not be considered an endorsement of the URL that is linked to. It is very badly named. – Hals

Answer 2

rel="me" is a link from a page about a person to another page about the same person.

Detritus

Answer 3

Basically Rel="nofollow" not to follow link or not share your website repo to that page. This page could be internal as well it could be external page. Rel="me" To give a social Repo to that page.

Rel="nofollow me" Means not to follow link but pass social repo to that page. Usually Facebook is a great example. From SEO point of view, now SEs are also considering social factors and I recommend to build your link on relevant page with high rate of traffic.

Wentworth

What do you mean with "repo"? – Stirpiculture

Answer 4

<a rel="me nofollow" href="https://example.org">

"me" instructs the search engines that the external website being linked(example.com) is another expression of me. The page where "me" appears and the destination website listed into the href field have the same owner.

Caste