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nofollow tag

how can i use it

         

andreww

10:54 am on Sep 1, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I would like robots to follow only 5 links from my homepage and do not follow another links

How can i do this?

Or it is possible to use nofollow tag for all page?

leadegroot

11:12 am on Sep 1, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Put the nofollow on all the links except the ones you want to pass PR

andreww

11:57 am on Sep 1, 2006 (gmt 0)

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How to do this?

shoul i type

<meta name="ROBOTS" content="INDEX,NOFOLLOW"> before each link?

and how to close this tag?

How will spider determine that it is only for 1 link (not for all links)?

adb64

12:51 pm on Sep 1, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Use <a href="" rel="nofollow">...</a>

andreww

6:31 am on Sep 3, 2006 (gmt 0)

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So, if i place rel=nofollow in every link i do not wish to be followed will se count these links in their link popularity algorithm?

leadegroot

1:03 pm on Sep 3, 2006 (gmt 0)

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In theory, no, they will not pass PR through those links.
(Although, specifically only Google uses 'PR')
Note that yahoo seems to be ignoring nofollow ATM

Robert Charlton

8:07 pm on Sep 4, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I would like robots to follow only 5 links from my homepage and do not follow another links

It's not clear to me that using the nofollow attribute on your other links is a way of funneling all of your PageRank distribution to these chosen 5.

On Google, nofollow will prevent the other links from receiving link love. Whether it's a tool for controlling the distribution of PageRank on your site, though, is another question, and I'm guessing it's not. I certainly wouldn't depend on it longterm, even if it were so.

Would appreciate comments from anyone who's tested this.

goubarev

10:26 pm on Sep 4, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I'm not sure if no-follow actually influences the PageRank...

I guess, no-follow tag will potentially protect you from “penalties” by linking to unknown places. By using the no-follow tag you state: “Here is the link, but I’m not sure what’s there, so if something bad there, I have nothing to do with it” – and I’m not sure if it does this: “Here is the link, but I’m not sure what’s there, so could you please don’t take it out of my PR”

It’ll be cool to get a definite answer on this issue…

andreww

2:03 pm on Sep 5, 2006 (gmt 0)

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yes
i mean pr distribution

Will other sites receive some pagerank from my site if i use nofollow tag with their links like this <a href="" rel="nofollow">

and will search engines show links from my site to others if i use nofollow?