Getting engines to ignore one site without 301

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by tbarr60, Mar 28, 2008.

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    I recently did a 301 redirect to have the search engines ignore one of our sites (call it www.powered-by-our-other-site.com) but it caused problems with some of our client's sites. It looks like I really didn't want a redirect, I probably just wanted an ignore signal in robot.txt, right?
     
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    removed redirect , if u want to ignore from search engines u can used no follow tag
     
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    tbarr60 Notable Member

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    I removed the redirect a few days back and our main site has dropped a few spots in the rankings and the "powered by" is showing up again. I will find the pages that link to the "powered by" page and no follow those links. I am still wondering about robot.txt.
     
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