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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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Rails rel nofollow link

I need to create no follow links with link_to. I'm looking for something like this: <%= link_to "example", example_path, :target => "_blank" %> But for no follow of course.
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how to prevent staging to be indexed in search engines

I would like my staging web sites to no being indexed by search engines (Google as first). I have heard Wordpress is good at doing this but I would like to be technology agnostic. Does the robots.txt is enough ? We would like to keep anonymous…
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"rel=nofollow noopener" - Possible to have both at the same time?

I've got a pdf that I'd like to protect and don't want search engines to index it. Currently, my link is as follows: View PDF Would I be able to add nofollow tag to the rel…
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What does rel="nofollow me" do?

I notice on SO userpage all urls have rel="nofollow me" (i was thinking of putting nofollow on my site so i checked here to see what SO does). What does the 'me' part do?
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Precedence of X-Robots-Tag header vs robots meta tag

I've placed the following Header in my vhost config: Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex, nofollow" The goal here is to just disable search engines from indexing my testing environment. The site is Wordpress and there is a plugin installed to manage…
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Is it useless to add `nofollow` using Javascript?

AFAIK, the rel="nofollow" attribute on links instruct search engines not to follow through the link when it crawls your site, therefore severing all assumption of relationship between your site and the linked site, and therefore, not sharing any of…
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How to automatically set all links to nofollow in Rails

I know I can pass :rel => "nofollow" to link_to but is there a way to set that by default so I don't have to make changes in each link_to tag?
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How to set rel="nofollow" links with summernote

I have a problem. I would like set rel="nofollow" Links in my summernote editor. I tried to rng.insertNode($('' + sLinkText + '')[0]); on line 1757 but it doesn't work. Can someone help me please? THX
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X-Robots noindex specific page in .htaccess

Can I 'noindex, follow' a specific page using x robots in .htaccess? I've found some instructions for noindexing types of files, but I can't find instruction to noindex a single page, and what I have tried so far hasn't worked. This is the page I'm…
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Does Google follow Buttons/Inputs

Does google follow buttons and form inputs when crawling websites? I'm adding rel="nofollow" tags to links I don't want google to follow but I'm not sure if I need to add them to buttons. For example an 'add to cart' button. Thanks
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help with regex - how can i make some urls no-follow?

Ok so i've made this function which works fine for converting most urls like pies.com or www.cakes.com to an actual link tag. function render_hyperlinks($str){ $regex =…
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If I put a rel="nofollow" will the referrer site will appear on Google Analytics of example.com?

If I put a rel="nofollow" will the referrer site will appear on Google Analytics of example.com? Example: Referrer site is: referrer.com
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How to set the X-Robots-Tag HTTP header via .htaccess file based on URL query string

Is it possible to apply HTTP header directives based on the URL's query string using an apache .htaccess? For example, based on this resource http://code.google.com/web/controlcrawlindex/docs/robots_meta_tag.html under the section titled "Practical…
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Odoo Is it possible to stop adding the project's followers to its task when it is created?

I have been managing Odoo 9 and there are some complain from customers who use odoo project to create issues about getting a lot of emails when tasks is created and commenting in the task. When I remove the followers from the project, then the…
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Is the rel dofollow more important than meta nofollow?

Basicly, i have a site that i cant remove the but i want list of links to be dofollow. If i write rel="dofollow" on each of these href, will they prevail over the meta tag and actually become…
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