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A Warrior Selling DoFollow Links but post uses NoFollow Meta Tag. Tell Him its Same as No Follow

by SMRDave
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I am sorry for bringing this dispute to you, but I am pretty confident I am right, and he seems to be pretty convinced that he is correct.

He is selling "do follow" links in the reciprocal links forum on a DA8x PA6x blog. I signed up for the links. When they delivered the first one at the top of the page in the header, this line is included. I have checked it on 3 different browsers. It's there for all three.

Code:
<meta name="robots" content="index,nofollow"/>
The links to my website look like the following.

Code:
<a href="http://www.website.com/" >Link Text</a>

I have been trying to explain that the link to my site is a NoFollow link because the Meta Robots NoFollow line in the header.

He disagrees or is saying its a bug. For the record I thought it was a simple mistake but I can't seem to convience him.

Here is his latest email.

Logically, if there is no BUG or something like that with the presence of that Metatag above "<meta name="robots" content="index,nofollow"/>", ALL the links within the article must be shown this way:

<a href="http://www.website.com/" rel="nofollow">Link Text</a>

But the links within the article we delivered are actually like that :

<a href="http://www.website.com/" >Link Text</a>

Meaning that they are Dofollow and that metatag (bug) has NO effect on the links type.

That metatag is just a bug no more or less !

Coming to your question whether the links are currently dofollow or nofollow?

They are DO-FOLLOW, I dare you to find any online checker proving the opposite.

Can someone please weight in here?
#dofollow #follow #links #meta #nofollow #post #selling #tag #warrior
  • Profile picture of the author Cool Guy
    simple solution would be to search for the page in google search. For instance, if the page is titled "widgets", then search for "website" "widgets". If it's no follow, then the page won't be indexed by Google.
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve B
    Why can't you just test this out and see what happens? Follow the links (or have someone follow them for you) and see what comes up.

    People on a public forum aren't going to validate or verify what is happening to your links by just telling you something.

    The proof is in the pudding.

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    • Profile picture of the author SMRDave
      Originally Posted by Steve B View Post

      Why can't you just test this out and see what happens? Follow the links (or have someone follow them for you) and see what comes up.

      People on a public forum aren't going to validate or verify what is happening to your links by just telling you something.

      The proof is in the pudding.

      Steve

      Sorry mate but you are missing the point. I don't need to test this out I already know the answer. I tried to be neutral about the way I asked the question so he couldn't go back and say I was persuading people to say what I wanted by the way I framed the question.

      Why wouldn't people on a public marketing forum be able to answer/verify/validate a simple question about how nofollow works? You might not be able to verify it because you do not know how googlebot works but other people do.

      Its really easy. Google always defaults to the most restrictive. So all you need to know to answer the question is the meta robots content value is set to nofollow thats it. Once that is set the whole page is nofollow. Here is a quote straight from google.

      Googlebot interprets the following robots meta tag values:
      NOINDEX - prevents the page from being included in the index.
      NOFOLLOW - prevents Googlebot from following any links on the page. (Note that this is different from the link-level NOFOLLOW attribute, which prevents Googlebot from following an individual link.)
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  • Profile picture of the author SMRDave
    Why wouldn't it be indexed? Google still indexes pages if they have nofollow meta tags. Google just does not follow the links. This is why they offer NoIndex and NoFollow. Unless you mean my link which google knows about already as well.
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    • Profile picture of the author Write Now
      Originally Posted by SMRDave View Post

      Why wouldn't it be indexed? Google still indexes pages if they have nofollow meta tags. Google just does not follow the links. This is why they offer NoIndex and NoFollow. Unless you mean my link which google knows about already as well.
      You're right and I'm wrong. I misread the OP.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sid Hale
    Dave,

    You're right... and he doesn't know what he is talking about!!!

    The meta tag in the <head> section of the page affects ALL links on that page. It was not granular enough, so the rel="nofollow" was created to allow the nofollow attribute to be specified for individual links on the page.

    This is explained here:
    https://support.google.com/webmaster...er/96569?hl=en
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  • Profile picture of the author Kurt
    Yes, Dave is correct. There's really no debate about the facts, only the ethics of the seller.
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