nofollow tag

[seo5]

hi..
if we use the nofollow tag then the spiders dont index the page but do they still crawl that page even if it asks not to do so?

[tedster]

What no follow tag? The robots meta tag, or the rel="nofollow" attribute?

1. If you are using the robots meta, the nofollow would need to be on ALL pages anywhere that point to the page you don't want indexed. It just means what it says -- don't follow the links on this page.

2. Also, if you are using the robots meta tag, the page itself should contain a noindex robots meta. Even then, the page may be spidered, but it is not supposed to be shown in any search results.

3. If you are using the rel="nofollow" attribute, that only prevents the passing of backlink influence (and PR in the case of Google). It does nothing to keep the target url out of any index.