Robot - Follow / NoFollow instruction
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About
The follow or nofollow instructions tells bot:
- to analyze or not the page for links.
- to give credit to another page. (ie to endorse for ranking)
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Meaning
| Value | Level | Description |
|---|---|---|
| nofollow | Page | Don't analyze the page for links |
| nofollow | Hyperlink | No endorsement, including passing along ranking credit to another page. |
Set
Page level: META
The meta name=“ROBOTS” tell visiting robots whether a document may be used to harvest more links.
In the following meta example a robot should neither index this document, nor analyze it for links.
<META name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
Specific to a bot: googlebot cannot harvest links
<meta name="robots" content="nofollow">
Link Level
On a link level with the rel attributes
Example:
<a href="https://example.com" rel="nofollow">An example</a>
Links marked with rel attributes will generally not be followed.
