Automatic no-follow???

Discussion in 'robots.txt' started by TheDutchMan, Apr 13, 2008.

  1. #1
    To be honest I don’t know if this is the right tread, my apologies if I’m wrong, I have very little experience in this.

    I have network of do-follow blogs that are from time to time linking to each other.

    Is it possible to set my robots.txt to have all my links to myotherblog.com no-follow without worrying about the actual (deep)link?

    If so; what do I need to enter in my robots.txt.

    Thanks
     
    TheDutchMan, Apr 13, 2008 IP
  2. EGS

    EGS Notable Member

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    I don't understand your question.

    To make links no-follow, you have to set a "rel=nofollow" in the links attribute while coding, ie:
    <a href="http://www.digitalpoint.com" rel="nofollow">Digital Point Solutions</a>
    Code (markup):
    For robots.txt, you can exclude pages from being accessed, spidered, and indexed via bots using the robots.txt file, but you can't set nofollow to links...it'll just not include more-over the page(s) etc that you don't want indexed or found etc.

    Refer to: About Robots.txt
     
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    manish.chauhan Well-Known Member

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    No..You can not.....
     
    manish.chauhan, Apr 13, 2008 IP
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    Ahh okay, I was hoping that this was possible.

    And do you know if there is another possible way to have all the links to a specific site turned into no-follow? Maybe with the .htaccess??

    Thank you both, appreciate it
     
    TheDutchMan, Apr 14, 2008 IP
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    manish.chauhan Well-Known Member

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    There is no way to add nofollow on every link by .htaccess. You can only do it manually by adding rel="nofollow" tag to each link ..:)
     
    manish.chauhan, Apr 14, 2008 IP
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    Ahh that's to bad, thanks a lot.
     
    TheDutchMan, Apr 14, 2008 IP
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    I thought robot.txt is usefull and very importat only when you wnat any page not to be followed/crawled by crawlar
     
    henery008, Apr 17, 2008 IP