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nofollow is a way for a web site to tell search engines not to give any credit to a link on a web site.
The nofollow option was mainly developed to help reduce Spam messages with links being posted to web sites, for example in comments on Forums and on Blog sites. If the links on the blog site use nofollow then the Spam links will not, (in theory), gain any benefit such as higher Google PageRank®.
If all links use the nofollow option this could have the issues that good links will also lose the credit in search engines they deserve.
nofollow may be implemented a number of ways for example to help prevent search engines accessing whole directories on a web site, or individual pages or individual links on a page. (Doing it for individual links could raise maintenance issues because this may have to be done by hand)
nofollow, the basics :-
robots.txt:-
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /directory_not_to_follow/
User-Agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /keepoutfile.htm/
individual web pages:-
<meta name=”robots” content=”nofollow” />
Individual links:-
<a href="http://www.what_ever_the_URL_is_to_follow.net">Search engines follow this link</a>
<a href="http://www.what_ever_the_URL_is_NOT_to_follow.net" rel="nofollow">Search engines no not follow this link</a> Note that robots can ignore your <META> tag. About the Robots <META> tagMatt Cutts quick comment on nofollow
Nofollow 101 - Understanding the Nofollow Tag How to use nofollow to boost internal & external linking Webmaster who saw a HUGE increase in traffic from Google after implementing some simple nofollow/robots restrictions. (Increase Google traffic by 1400%…) Wikipedia Nofollow A nofollow may help reduce Duplicate Content issues.noindex, the basics is a way of asking search engine not to index a web page, it's like saying please don't list this page. You may wish to use this on pages that you would like to be more private.
<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />
Matt Cutts what should noindex do
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Google handles the NOINDEX meta tag. Google’s search quality group. Here’s a policy discussion about NOINDEX and how Google should treat the NOINDEX meta tag. First, you’ll want to read this post about how
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Learn How to Use NOINDEX & NOFOLLOW
NoDoFollow Is a FireFox Plugin Just a simple extension to highlight links in a page according to nofollow / dofollow status. More Browsers and Browser Tools
Advice: nofollow or/and noindex are not ways of protecting the security of a web site or ever keeping pages private. Some search engines or other web sites may just ignore these options. They are a request only. Adding NoFollow or/and NoIndex could reduce the number of recognized external links on a web site and this may have a negative impact on the Google PageRank® of your own web site. May be useful in helping to reducing Spam on for Forums and on Blog sites
Link/s on a NoFollow web sites are more likely to be respected by real users because they are believed to be listed due to their good content and not listed as just a way to try to improve ranking such as with GoogleRank®
Remember that a link/s on NoFollow web sites are may be used be real people who may post yours details and link/s with out the NoFollow elsewhere and this could improve your ranking with GoogleRank®
Not all search engines may use the NoFollow/NoIndex request, it is only a request.
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Also read robots.txt, Meta Tags and Duplicate Content, Broken Links, Orphaned Links, Orphaned Web Pages, Redirects. Redirecting URL's, Ranking and GoogleRank®
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