no follow code

[Blogmaster]

Let's say I have a set of links such as

<a href=>link1</a>blah<a href=>link2</a><a href=>link3</a>,<a href=>link4</a>

Where do I place the non follow command and how in order to only exclude those links from being indexed, but allow all other links on the page to be indexed?

Thanks.

[jrd1mra]

make them java script links

[Smyrl]

I think Google can follow javascript links.

Shannon

[tflight]

<a rel="nofollow" href="http://example.com/">link 1</a>
That is what I think you are looking for.

[debare]

Put rel="nofollow" just before the link you want to exclude. It won't affect the other links because the exclusion is link specific.

<a href="http://www.xxx.com" "rel="nofollow">www.XXX.com</a>

[Blogmaster]

ic, so I have to do this within every link individually, right?

[kalius]

yes god bless find and replace :)

[kkibak]

are you guys 100% sure goog and other engines dont follow these?

[tflight]

I never said it would prevent those pages from being index... or at least I didn't mean to imply that. If you don't want something indexed then you would need to put that into a robots.txt file and hope that the spider is behaving and doesn't follow it.

What I described above is the "no follow" parameter of the anchor tag which people use to not pass on rank to other sites... such as what you might add to links that appear in the comments section of a blog.

[dcristo]

are you guys 100% sure goog and other engines dont follow these?

I would argue they still do, that is, pass on link popularity and pagerank.

[Solicitors Mortgages]

are you guys 100% sure goog and other engines dont follow these?

google 'apparently' won't...but that doesn't mean others won't,

not very helpful, but its not an exact science :D

its made that way to make it hard to be #No1
apart from they forgot to tell Shawn :mad:

why would it be that important to DEFINATELY have a no follow?

[MattL]

I would argue they still do, that is, pass on link popularity and pagerank.

What makes you think that? It's a Google created attribute. Why would they have people use it for nothing?

[MattL]

I think Google can follow javascript links.

Shannon

Shannon I agree. I have seen evidence over the last year or so of Google following JS links that it didn't previously.

[MattL]

are you guys 100% sure goog and other engines dont follow these?

Google doesn't, as it is their thing. The others don't recgonize it as of now.

[av1]

yahoo definitely ignores the rel=nofollow tag, and im not sure about msn, my first guess is it does obey the tag.

[dcristo]

What makes you think that? It's a Google created attribute. Why would they have people use it for nothing?

Well firstly, the attribute was released in an attempt to combat blog spamming, not for use on ordinary sites. I've done a pretty closed test of the attribute shortly after the tag was announced and did find the link containing the tag did still pass on pagerank (which would assume link poularity) in Google.

[MattL]

im not sure about msn, my first guess is it does obey the tag.

Your guess is right. I don't check up on MSN Search much for obvious reasons, but apparantly the picked up on it pretty early http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/2005/01/18/nofollow_tags.aspx

[MattL]

Well firstly, the attribute was released in an attempt to combat blog spamming, not for use on ordinary sites. I've done a pretty closed test of the attribute shortly after the tag was announced and did find the link containing the tag did still pass on pagerank (which would assume link poularity) in Google.

I'm familiar with the reason they created it, but a link is a link.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html

[dcristo]

but a link is a link.

what relevance does that have with what we are talking about?

[MattL]

what relevance does that have with what we are talking about?

The re="nofollow" attribute is for links...and a link is a link whether it is a blog or any other type of site.

The Google blog I linked to mentions it...

"Q: Is this a blog-only change?
A: No. We think any piece of software that allows others to add links to an author's site (including guestbooks, visitor stats, or referrer lists) can use this attribute. We're working primarily with blog software makers for now because blogs are such a common target."

[Blogmaster]

Off-topic a little: the reason for comment spam is not always getting backlinks, people see the spam and click the links, so it is still a problem.

[ResaleBroker]

Mike, if you don't want the links indexed you could always send the links through a script. Owlcroft has one called "via" I believe. ;)