No Follow Code?

by Nightengale

Posted: 15 years ago 16 replies

Hi all!

I seem to remember there's a no-follow code that you can use to make sure your documents on the Web (like PDF documents) can't be found in searches. Does anyone know if I'm remembering correctly and what it is? I'd rather my free report NOT be found in a Google search.

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Michelle

#code #follow

mathiasc 15 years ago
Here's the code

Code:

<a href=http://www.YourProduct.com/ rel="nofollow" >Title/Text Here</a>
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- edpudol1973 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by mathiasc
  
  Here's the code
  
  Code:
  
  <a href=http://www.YourProduct.com/ rel="nofollow" >Title/Text Here</a>
  
  No that does not solve the problem... because engines follow links even with the nofollow tag, try to disallow it in robots.txt or put it in secured folder
  
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  LindseyInteractive 15 years ago
  
  Do you want them to not just see the link? Or do you not want them to index the page? If it is the page you need to add the meta information for no follow in order to get robots to skip that page and not search it.
  
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  askloz 15 years ago
  
  That's nonsense.
  
  Nofollow means NOFOLLOW, if you put that attribute in your href links, then the search engines will NOT FOLLOW the link. Period!
  
  Originally Posted by edpudol1973
  
  No that does not solve the problem... because engines follow links even with the nofollow tag, try to disallow it in robots.txt or put it in secured folder
  
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  TheHutz 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by askloz
  
  That's nonsense.
  
  Nofollow means NOFOLLOW, if you put that attribute in your href links, then the search engines will NOT FOLLOW the link. Period!
  
  No, no, no! I'm afraid thats not the case.
  
  The nofollow attribute to links does not stop search engines from following the link. It stops them from passing Page Rank to that page. Even then it is not always paid attention to - especially by Yahoo and MSN.
  
  It was introduced to try and reduce the effects of comment spam on blogs.
  
  As mentioned before, you need to use Robots.txt file or your meta tags to stop the file/page being indexed.
  
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  Stella_Roberts 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by askloz
  
  That's nonsense.
  
  Nofollow means NOFOLLOW, if you put that attribute in your href links, then the search engines will NOT FOLLOW the link. Period!
  
  Thats No Nonsense..........
  
  Nofollow links are not followed only by Google, whereas Yahoo and Live do consider nofollow links as well.
  
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  TheHutz 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Stella_Roberts
  
  Thats No Nonsense..........
  
  Nofollow links are not followed only by Google, whereas Yahoo and Live do consider nofollow links as well.
  
  Please stop adding to the confusion!
  
  Links are always followed and crawled. The only thing the nofollow attribute does is to stop Page Rank being passed.
  
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- David 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by mathiasc
  
  Here's the code
  
  Code:
  
  <a href=http://www.YourProduct.com/ rel="nofollow" >Title/Text Here</a>
  
  is the space required?
  
  rel="nofollow">
  
  OR
  
  rel="nofollow" >
  
  I read on digital point that is does have to be one word:
  nofollow
  
  as opposed to
  no follow
  
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Randy Bheites 15 years ago

To really make sure it doesn't get found by search engines, put it in a seperate folder and password-protect it. Give the login out to your paid customers when you deliver their order confirmation email.
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- Nightengale 15 years ago
  
  Thanks guys! I appreciate it!
  
  Michelle
  
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Smokey_Joe 15 years ago

The nofollow microformat is primarily used to prevent pr and anchor text from being transferred. The links are followed all the same.

I believe this is not exactly what you are looking for.
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robertsgr 15 years ago

If you want your documents don't be indexed by search engines, nofollow tag can't help you. Use robots.txt:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /
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dave147 15 years ago

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- TheHutz 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by dave147
  
  you need a noindex,nofollow for the robots
  
  Yeah thats right, although I personally like to have noindex,follow - as if I have any links on the page I don't want indexed, the PR still gets passed.
  
  Just a handy little tip that people might forget about - Always try to have your links followed unless they are going to pages you don't want ranked.
  
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robertstr 15 years ago
Here is an example of nofollow being applied to a link:
- Normal link:
  <a href="http://www.example.com/">best credit cards </a>
- Link with Nofollow:
  <a href="http://www.example.com/" rel="nofollow">best credit cards </a>
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faithuniq 15 years ago

You have to mention it in your robots.txt file.
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