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Old 31-01-2007, 18:50   #1 (permalink)
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Default meta nofollow... will this help site ranking?

suddently think of this today, by using the meta index nofollow, this can prevent the bot from crawling to external site, and thus preventing links to unrelevant site, and to bad neighbourhood as well. is there any proof that this helps page ranking?
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Old 26-03-2007, 13:55   #2 (permalink)
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No. It will not help your site in pagerank.
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the nofollow tag is supposed to tell bots that you don't trust the linked site.
perhaps in a way, it can help you rank by avoiding bad neighbourhoods. but that depends on who you link to anyway,
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suddently think of this today, by using the meta index nofollow, this can prevent the bot from crawling to external site, and thus preventing links to unrelevant site, and to bad neighbourhood as well. is there any proof that this helps page ranking?
Definitely not! but in yahoo theres an allegation which i also believed (am just playing safe) that they don't give bad effect for those links who had no-follow attribute.
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There is always a lot of confusion over the meta tag for noindex/nofollow and the rel attribute for nofollow.

Plainly speaking the meta tag noindex will not aid pagerank. It tells SEs not to index the page but without adding a nofollow attribute to the meta information of the page, the SEs will pass on link juice to links on the page.....but not if those individual links have the meta nofollow attribute applied to them.

The rel nofollow attribute command is the one which can aid pagerank if used correctly. If you know your stuff about on page SEO optimisation then you should be trying to guide search engine bots around your site by preventing them from following duplicated links on your pages.

For example, what's the point in linking to your homepage via a logo, via a footer link and via a menu link on every page of your site? The three separate links are diluting your flow of link juice. By adding the rel nofollow attribute to two of the links you are passing juice to more important areas of your site.
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no it will not your site....

because, the bots can't crawl the link....
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Googlebot will follow links on a page which uses the meta "noindex" tag, but that page will not appear in our search results.
from Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: More webmaster questions - Answered!

Simply put they follow the links but don't index the target pages
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i think no.....


because the web spiders cannot crawl your link....
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It's a big no. That's why it's no follow. But it may help you on building links on-page to make sure that you don't have duplicate page. Webmasters know that part.
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is nofollow used for spam filter?
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