Well.. I am kind of new but heard about using nofollows and php to stop search engines from following the links? (pardon my newbieness if that is not the definition).. then I read this on Wikipedia (yea I find it pretty dependable now for information) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow#Interpretation_by_the_individual_search_engines Might be old news. But I was just wondering if it is true and so we should use robots.txt and php instead?
I just means you won't give PR weight to the site you are linked to. Google will still follow the link. In the wiki, it mentions conflicting information. Google shouldn't be following the link, but they still do (I have seen it myself). Other search engine ignore or follow the link. Use Robots.txt when possible.
Yes, I haven't spotted Google doing it, but Yahoo's bot definitely follows "nofollow"s all the time. Google probably does too - they still want to see what you are linking to But the major engines SHOULD be obeying robots.txt... p.s. This is totally the wrong forum for this topic - let's kill it now, you don't want a ban before you've started!