Google ignores nofollow attribute

No Follow Attribute

[Whitey]

I am not sure why Google is indexing the filter link on our site:

[oursite.com...]

We have already included the nofollow tag when it was first implemented on the template.

Any ideas? Is anyone else experiencing this?

[tedster]

Whitey, if you are talking about rel="nofollow", it is a poorly named bit of tech. What it was designed for is to say "I do not vouch for this link - do not send it any PR." But never did any of the search engines say they would "not follow".

The meta robots tag "nofollow" is a different story. It's as old as the hills and it does mean "don't follow". But rel="nofollow" is a different story.

[g1smd]

I would serve <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> on the CGI page itself.

That avoids a possible "URL-only" entry in Google's index caused by Google finding any links pointing to that page.