November 3rd, 2009, 09:17 AM
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Quote: | Originally Posted by hws I think i understand it. using the robots.txt file will ban them altogether and will not pass page rank. using
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" /> will pass page rank.
But what i'm stuck on is that i also use nofollow in the links on my pages. Does this mean that they will not be looked at by search engines therefore they will not be passing page rank? |
Nofollow does not mean "don't index", as others have stated already. Nofollow is merely a directive to Search Engines to not pass PageRank on to the given web page.
"noindex, follow" isn't what many people think. It means "don't index, but follow (i.e. discover) the links". By doing this, you have created a dangling web page and the link architecture can really get messed up.
If you are tweaking link architectures, PM me and I will give you some free tools that show you exactly how the PageRank is flowing throughout the website, and what web pages are being indexed.
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