What is the meaning of rel="noopener noreferrer"?

Feb 15, 2018
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Amanda Cerry
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it is a way of communicating with the search engine robots to say that the link juice should not flow to other sites .

Feb 15, 2018 Like it
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Nathan Martinez
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I was also wondering this and I found out that it tells the website you are linking to that no one referred the person. Basically when someone clicks the link with those tags, the website that they landed on has no idea where the person came from. I think there's also a security thing too. From what I also read, it helps protect the person that clicked the link from being hacked or spyed on.

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AppInventiv Technolo...
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I have read answers of all the person. All are saying same point about rel=noreferrer in a website language. But I could not understood what are they want to say. Can anybody explain this point clearly??

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Pratik Kanada
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This tag when combined basically means that no referrer information should be passed to the website being linked (noreferrer) to and noopener prevents the newly opened page from having the ability to control the page that delivered the traffic.

There is something called a http “referrer header” in your website code that adds information about your visitor like browser, device, location etc. to pass through to the page that visitor is clicking through to. This new tag prohibits that informat

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Ajay Goyal
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Endive Software

I think it mean that no referrer information should be passed to the website being linked (noreferrer) to and noopener prevents the newly opened page from having the ability to control the page that delivered the traffic.

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Brooke Chloe
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@Kernel You think right and I appreciate it.

Main Difference between rel=”noreferrer” and rel=”nofollow”

On the SEO front, no issue is going to arise as search engines do not take noreferrer into account.

Rel=nofollow:

The tag rel=nofollow is used to indicate that neither the publisher of the page to the original author is endorsing the link and neither the referred document link is included just for commercial purpose between users of the two pages. The tag is invented by Google an

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Kernel Data Recovery...
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I think it will Rel="noopener noreferrer" certainly affect SEO for people who are creating a lot of backlinks to rank their sites in Google SERPs. Since generally rel=”nofollow” tag is used by search engines to stop the link juices. Hence, the tag noreferrer confuses with nofollow.

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Brooke Chloe
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As far as I know:
Rel="noopener noreferrer" attribute tag is the purpose of not showing the referrer of the traffic, this information includes "Browser, OS, Region, Etc.) .....
What is the purpose of this tag?,
Well!! not more than security purposes and yes it doesn't affect the SEO link signals i.e dofollow link and all other types of links.

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Obd2coding Dai
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Me too,waiting for zhe answer

Aug 14, 2017 Like it
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Yog P.
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Yoga Peeth

Please Answer Anyone I m Also waiting for answer

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