Noindex.......Nofollow

nkoli · #1 (**permalink**) 08-04-2009, 03:15 PM

Can someone please tell me what this means

<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" />

I just viewed the page source of a website I traded links with

TechieGuy · #2 (**permalink**) 08-04-2009, 03:59 PM

The nofollow attribute acts the same way as the nofollow in a link, except that it applies to all links on the page.

The noindex attribute instructs the serach engines not to index the page. In other words, the search engines won't be doing much with this page.

sequencehosting · #3 (**permalink**) 08-04-2009, 04:40 PM

Techie has explained it very well.

Not much point trading links with that website.

nkoli · #4 (**permalink**) 08-04-2009, 04:58 PM

That;s terrible

sequencehosting · #5 (**permalink**) 08-04-2009, 05:07 PM

So is this their links page then? It was really smart of you to check the source code.

I know I use this on pages such as contact confirmation pages.

kelevraco · #6 (**permalink**) 08-04-2009, 08:39 PM

If you feel this is a good site for you to have a link from and or too then maybe add the no follow to your return link as they could just be working on gaining a page rank by trading links. Most people won't take the time to look that they are not allowing the spiders to crawl that page. So in essence they are getting free rankings from your site however not returning the favor. Seems pretty crappy to do this but I think you will be seeing more of this with Google putting such a strain on back links.

nkoli · #7 (**permalink**) 08-05-2009, 06:43 AM

Thanks peeps!!!!!
I'll definitely add the nofollow to their link

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