"noindex,nofollow" tag Question

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by briancollins, May 14, 2007.

  1. #1
    Hi,
    I have a site which sells a digital download.
    The homepage is indexed, but the download page thankfully is not, i think.

    I have two questions I require clarification on.

    1 ) How do I check to see if my download page has been indexed or not ?

    2 ) What is the no follow tag and where in the html does it go, my code reads as of now, from the top -

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
    <html>
    <head>
    <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">
    <title></title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
    <style type="text/css">
    <!--
    body {

    Is this correct, so my download page will not be indexed or linked to ?

    Many Thanks in advance,
    Brian
     
    briancollins, May 14, 2007 IP
  2. billybw

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    According to what you showed, you already have a no index/nofollow meta tag in the page head, so the page shouldn't be indexed. To make sure, you can use the site: command. To do this, do a Google or Yahoo search with the following:

    site:www.yourdomain.com

    where "yourdomain" is the domain of your site. If you do this correctly, you will get a list of all the indexed pages on the site.
     
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    Many Thanks, that's what I wanted clarification on, to see if it was indeed in the right place.

    Thanks for your help.
     
    briancollins, May 14, 2007 IP