Hello, What is the deal with robots.txt nofollow link? Does it still help my website in the serps? Best Regards, Nick
Thanks, we have a link from a very pretegious PR5 website that relates directly to our website. However the link in my analsysis has a robots.txt nofollow tag. I am just wondering if it will still help us in the search engines?
nofollow will not transfer the PR of the page to yours. So if the page your backlink is on has a PR5 but the nofollow attribute as well, then the PR value won't be transfered to your site (google will still see the backlink, though it won't have as much value as it would have when that nofollow attribute wasn't there).
Robots no-follow is especially useful it you want your articles to rank and not an article under your categories,tags, archives and ect... Imagine going to a website from a search you performed, the page you see is a tag page but their are 20 other articles on the same page. You would have to search for the article which means most will simply click away seeings how it is not easily accessible. No follow work great too if you have a login page that you don't want indexed. For example most of my sites are cms websites. I assign the robots to tell serach engines not to follow or index the admin login pages. I want to also add that nofollow helps manage your link juice too. When you create one article and you have a category section, a tag section ect. the link juice is spread across each article treating them as separate articles. When you assign no follow on those sections it puts all the link juice on the original article as it should be.
Correct, but only having a nofollow attribute won't help if your goal is to not index a certain page.
It will greatly reduce it because any link on your webpage pointing to your admin page will not be followed hence should not be indexed. But yes noindex on admin page will almost guarantee it wouldn't be indexed.