[pmwiki-users] Google: noindex, nofollow error 403

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Tue Apr 20 07:51:40 CDT 2010


On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 09:49:21AM +0200, Dominique Faure wrote:
> You may also modify the link specification itself with:
> 
> $SourceBlockLinkUrl = "<a href='\$LinkUrl' type='text/plain'
> rel='nofollow'>\$LinkText</a>";

Note that according to the official spec, rel='nofollow' doesn't
tell a search engine not to index the target of a link -- it simply
says to not give the link itself any index weight in ranking algorithms. [1]

So even with rel='nofollow', a well-behaved search engine can still
end up following the the link and indexing the page, and several of the
major search engines do so. 

Pm

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow#What_nofollow_is_not_for



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