Meta Tags ‘NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW’
The meta tags are in the header of a web page, that is, between the <head> tags. There are some webmasters out there that use the meta tag <meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW"> on their links page or directory. This means that search engine robots will not index (NOINDEX) or follow (NOFOLLOW) the links on that page.
The use of <meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW"> is most commonly seen during link exchanges where webmasters try to retain their PageRank by instructing search engine robots not to index or follow their links pages or links directory.
Impact of this meta tags on link exchanges
A link on a web page using robots meta tag is not completely useless. If your link is on a web page that uses this robots meta tag, your link would not be counted towards your web site’s link popularity. However, visitors may still find your web site through this link.
Detecting meta “NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW”
Detecting this robots meta tags is quite simple. The meta tag can be clearly seen in the source code of the web page. Look within the <head> tags near the top of the source code.
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Thanks for this info! Very useful for some work I’m doing tonight on one of my pages that I don’t want indexed!
Comment by Nissan Sentra — April 22, 2009
I’m using robots.txt if i don’t want my page to be indexed by google.
Comment by Michael Amban — July 28, 2009
How can we use robots.txt to stop google from indexing a particular page on my website?
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Comment by 24ondemand — February 26, 2010
The above information & comment is very accurate. We also find the no index or nofollw of any link page by only right clicking those page and see the “view page info”. you can find it
Comment by Nitin — March 7, 2010
Just the info I needed. Although I am pretty sure that robots still follow “nofollow” links, they just don’t transfer any link juice.
Comment by Double Power Marketing — April 26, 2010
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Comment by Posicionamiento Web — June 15, 2010
Good share with Good information. Sometimes we people don’t want a link on a nofollow site, because this will have no effect on link popularity but forget that we can get some good visitors through that link.
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Interesting post. Interesting is that you can see well ranking sites that have noindex, nofollow but internal sites still have PR.
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What whould be a time when you want to use FOLLOW & INDEX?
The more of the SEO optimizing i read the more confused I get
Comment by kazanganti — August 17, 2010
Thanks for providing this meta tag. It came to me as I was working on developing a new site that I don’t want discovered yet.
Thanks again!
Joshua
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Meta tag plays a vital role in SEO. Be careful about this during link-exchange. Thanks to author for sharing such an informative article.
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So glad I found these tags. They really came in handy during the launch of my site.
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Hi guys, I’m quite new in regards Joomla, I have built many sites in Joomla but they cover the basics. I use Sh404sef with all my sites and I’m reading an SEO book about what to make sure your site has in order to score points off google. I’m compiling a strategy and one of the areas is meta tags. Now in Joomla via Sh404sef you can only insert data for “title”, “description”, “keywords”, “robots”, “languages”. But as an overkill strategy on each of my joomla pages I would like to add additional meta tags like “meta revisited” or “meta location” or “meta subject”. Am I missing something? is there an addition component I can install for this? I love Joomla and really like sh404sef, but is it not a bit limited in this department.
Comment by Nick — September 30, 2010
I think it’s fair to say that google and co will have a degree of intelligence when it comes to indexing your site and providing you don’t do anything to crazy you won’t be disadvantaged.
There is an issue around duplicate content and you could argue that google might smile at you if you help it out by telling it on a link by link basis not to follow certain links… e.g. paid adds and social bookmarks etc.
I’ve seen little impact in changing the index and follow attributes even at a link level and it seems to do very little in terms of focusing/dividing up your PR distribution to different pages.
as far as 80/20 goes I’d put this one in the 20 group.
Comment by g-mapper — October 21, 2010
This a great topic to speak on because I can’t find out why all the websites I have aren’t being linked together especially when they included in my website. 65 websites in total in http://www.accessiblehomehealthcare.com/ , the tag being used is
(wordpress SEO All in one Pack).
Something is wrong, and can’t figure what it is- can you help me?
Comment by Kevin — January 3, 2011
Fof these tasks, in my Wordpress CMS, I use a plugin named wp-SEO.
I also know a very interesting plugin tool paid called “Al in one SEO Pro”.
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Links are very important for SEO.
That´s all
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Comment by foodman — April 10, 2011
Hola! es pequeño mi aporte pero creo que los tags no index no tienen mucho valor, a diferencia de los nofollow o dofollow
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There is an issue around duplicate content and you could argue that google might smile at you if you help it out by telling it on a link by link basis not to follow certain links… e.g. paid adds and social bookmarks etc.
Comment by webcrea — October 14, 2011
Meta tags are not visible when someone visits a web page, but search engines read these Meta tags alone and decides to enter a web page in its search results pages. The finding is the importance of Meta tags within them, and its contents.
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Comment by dede — November 12, 2011
so what better index and follow or nofollow and no index??thanks
Comment by Medicine Of Herbal — November 17, 2011
so what better index and follow or nofollow and no index??
only use full for link exchange??
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