Questions tagged [nofollow]

nofollow is a value that can be assigned to the rel attribute of an HTML a element to instruct some search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target's ranking in the search engine's index.

nofollow is a value that can be assigned to the rel attribute of an HTML a element to instruct some search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target's ranking in the search engine's index.

It is intended to reduce the effectiveness of certain types of search engine spam, thereby improving the quality of search engine results and preventing spamdexing from occurring.

Example:

<a href="http://www.example.com/" rel="nofollow">Link text</a>
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nofollow links and seo for rankings

I want to know that is it good to have a nofollow link on a page . Means is it worth for seo or it will only prevent other site from getting higher rankings ? sources…
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Can a URL be blocked using robot.txt disallow?

I am trying to block our job board from being crawled. Can a specific URL be blocked with "Disallow" in a robot.txt file? And what would that look like for this URL? I don't want to just Disallow HTML, only the URL for the URL…
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