The "nofallow" tag

nofallow tag keywords description

[meetzah]

Hello,

This is my first post on webmasterworld so please be nice. I need to place a link on my website to another website who copy my content. How can I do that without give him a backlink? I heard that is something like "nofallow" tag you can add to a link so that the search engines don't count this link. Can someone explain me?

Thank you.

[vladid]

<a href="" rel="nofollow"></a> is the tag in question. Another way could be to link to the other site though a script on your site.

[meetzah]

I used this tag but the link is inactive now. You can see at <snip> what I meen (is the top down banner). about a script, can you give me an example?

[edited by: martinibuster at 9:53 pm (utc) on Jan. 22, 2006]
[edit reason] Removed URL per TOS. [/edit]

[Key_Master]

Googlebot obeys rel="nofollow". I'm not sure the others do.

[meetzah]

yes, I know google accept "nofollow". I inserted this tag to a link but now I am unable to press the link so I can go to the site I indicated. Remember that I want to show my visitors a site that copy my content. I must allow users to clink on the link but I don't want google to cat this link as a vote of my page for that page. Do you understand what I try to say?

[tedster]

Sounds like a typo in your html -- check for a missing quote mark or closing bracket.

[meetzah]

the problem is solved. I misspelled a "h" from the "href" tag :))

I have one more question: does google see as reciprocal links the links on my page with the "nofollo tag" if on the respective websites there is a link to me?

[larryhatch]

Meetzah: If I have this right, Google would count the incoming link from the other site
(assuming no nofollow), but not count your outgoing link (with nofollow) so no mutual link.

I would be more worried the other sites will remove their links to you as
soon as they find out you pulled a 'nofollow' on them. -Larry