David,
It takes some time and I don't know how to add the code in a
Pub-generated link but the coding is: [rel="nofollow'] - without the
brackets for each link one does not want followed. Wiki, Google and some
other major sites use it to avoid giving unfair SE advantages. An
example would be:
<a href="
http://www.yourwebsite.com rel="nofollow">Your web site </a>"
Mike
DavidF wrote:
Be careful about how you are interpreting the words of the person on
the forum. While that code would not prevent the webbots from indexing
that particular page of your site, when they say it will block
"external links", I am guessing that they mean that it blocks ALL links
from that page, whether they are external or internal, whether they
lead to other sites or other pages on YOUR site. And of course you do
want the webbots to follow the links to your other pages. I have never
read anything about how you could block some links from a page and not
others. I think it is an all or none proposition. I could be wrong.
Perhaps repost to that forum and ask them specifically if you can block
the webbots from following some links, and not others from a particular
page.
Good luck.
DavidF
When i saw the code i think the same with you, that this code stop the
engines to index the whole page ( content ) so i post again in the
forum and
they told me this is only for the external links and this not block
the whole
page...i will search again about it to find more answers. Till now i
use
robots.txt file to block a whole page, but i think i cannot block
specified
links, i read your article about robots.txt and i didnt find any
mention
about blocking links.
The reason that i want to block engines from the external links is
because
in each page i have about 10 external affiliate links all going in the
same
website, so if you imagine 150 pages x 10 links = 1500 links. I would
like to
no give any PR value to this affiliate website because in the Greek
google it
is the main competitor. If i remove all these links i believe i will
be 1st
:
Panos,
I don't think this is going to work for several reasons. From what I
understand about the subject, what you are proposing to include will
prevent
the search engines from indexing YOUR pages, not following external
links,
and of course that is not what you want to happen. Secondly, this
needs to
be in the head section, not the body of the page, so using the insert
html
code fragment tool is not going to work. Alternatively you prepare a
robots.txt file and upload it to your root directory.
I am no expert in the subject, but I don't think this is designed to
keep
the webbots from following external links. It is for telling the
webbots
what sections of your site that you do not want indexed. Here is a
source
that I bookmarked for the information I used to write a robots.txt
file.:
http://www.outfront.net/tutorials_02/adv_tech/robots.htm
Just curious...why you would want to prevent the webbots from
following the
external links in the first place?
DavidF
Hello,
I want to add the nofollow attribute in all the external links of my
webpages, posting at a webmaster forum they gave me this code
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOFOLLOW">
If i add a code fragment with this code at the top of every
publisher
page,
do you think it can cause any problem????
Thanks
Panos
