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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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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