I read a blog post tonite about Technorati using the "index, nofollow" in its meta tags. I was hoping someone could better explain to me what this means. I have seen this before but don't feel like I understand it as much or as well as I'd like. If anyone could outline the rel=, nofollow & robots.txt related I'd appreciate it. Thanks
Index means robots may index the page, nofollow means that robots shouldn't follow the links on the page.
You get different explanations depending where you look: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=33582 Confusing!
only two things you need to know noindex and nofollow because index and follow are defaults ex: sample.html use following meta tag:: <head> <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" > </head> noindex : robots do not index the page(sample.html) nofollow : robots do not index all hrefs from the page you may play meta tags here: http://3w.ezer.com/tools/html/metabuilderframe.asp
There's also the noarchive flag, for when you want to be indexed, but not have your web page cached by the search engine.
If Ref nofollow the Robot will not count the outbound Links, which mean you got no outbound link just inboud links, I'm I understand correctly. If every Webmaster using nofollow artibute then ?????