If you link to websites that Google consider to be bad neighbourhood your site could be at risk of being penalized, if you know that you are linking to a quality website then fine. Linking to a website is like voting for that site, you should use the correct tag when linking to a website that you can’t vouch for. This way you won’t risk getting slapped by Google, we have posted some examples to show you the different ways of linking to a website.

<a href=”http://www.seowebdirectory.com”>Seo Web Directory</a>

Here is the same link with a “nofollow”

Link Title "Seo Web Directory"

Here is what the code looks like:

<a href=”http://www.seowebdirectory.com” rel=”nofollow”>Seo Web Directory</a>

Here is the same link with “nofollow” and “open in new window”

Link Title "Seo Web Directory"

Here is what the code looks like:

<a href=”http://www.seowebdirectory.com” rel=”nofollow” target=”_blank”>Seo Web Directory</a>

Now here is a no-follow open in new window target="blank" xhtml valid.

<a rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" href="http://www.seowebdirectory.co.uk/">Seo Web Directory</a></p>

Hopefully this will give you a better idea how to use and add links.