Comments on: Tell Google How to Treat Your Content : Disallow, Nofollow, NoIndex

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:50:43 +0000

Hi,

Good article, thanks. But how about to prevent to index a part of the page?

The Russian search engines allows to put the unwaned page’s content inside the tag so that this part won’t be in the SERP. Does Google have any analogue?

By: Ann Smarty

Ann Smarty — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:18:51 +0000

@Matt – no, actually a link with Nofollow attribute won’t be followed. You can run a simple test by creating a new page at your site and nofollow all links to it. The page won’t be crawled and indexed until you create a “dofollow’ link to it.

Here is also quite a straightforward citation by Matt Cutts if you don’t trust me:

“NoFollow as an individual link attribute means don’t follow this particular link…”

http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-matt-cutts.shtml

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:20:48 +0000

Nofollow does not prevent engines from following the link. You are mistaken. The link is still followed. All it does is prevent passing of link juice.

By: kokotaro

kokotaro — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:30:22 +0000

thanks, now i can understand completely the crawl, index and rank.
but i always feel confused that what’s the differences between “external nofollow” and “nofollow”.
i really want to know the answer. thanks again.

By: chris

chris — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:20:09 +0000

good job!

By: Name changed to protect the Sphinner

Name changed to protect the Sphinner — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:33:09 +0000

I’ve long wondered whether to add “noindex,follow” to the front page of my blog to avoid a duplicate content penalty.

The problem is that I have links from social networking profiles pointing there and so its gaining (a little) rank.

I read that search engines understand blogs and don’t impose this penalty – but do the SEOs out there have a definitive answer?

By: Louis Liem

Louis Liem — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:31:04 +0000

so, correct me if i’m wrong..

noindex means not displaying the page on SERP and nofollow means not following the link and in google’s case, not giving any PR link juice?

By: doug m

doug m — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:39:31 +0000

this is a great article. now how would I stop links from showing up that have no content, IE: certain php pages that don’t related to my posts