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Originally Posted by Terry Van Horne
My bad... I forgot there is a "nofollow" in the Robots tags. See that is the absurdity of this in that "noFollow" can refer to 2 totally different implementations with one being used for indexing commands and one "supposedly" indicating endorsement of the a link. This shows the absurdity and lack of planning for implementation with opaque references for one, is it any wonder we are skeptical, it's with good reason, SE's have been terrible at documenting these tags and ensuring across the board support for them.
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But when you add "nofollow" in the robots meta tags does not mean that the page will not be followed itself. Only the links being placed on the page.
I implement workarounds for a page I do not want it to be followed (sharing
PR juice), but still being possible to be indexed. If you disallow a page with the robots.txt, it will not be indexed at all.
And for outbound links that they should not be followed, like affiliates, etc, I redirect the users with a 301 and forbid the SE (the ones I choose) to follow with a 403.
Lets take this scenario:
If you consider an external web site as a very useful resource for your customers, but it is irrelevant to your sites theme, what do you do not to piss Google off? I assume rel="nofollow".
Would Yahoo or MSN or other smaller SE be pissed off if you do that? No! Would they penalize you for selling links or linking to irrelevant sites? No. Using the rel="nofollow" you block Yahoo and MSN following those links. Sacrificing all that just to satisfy Google? Me not.
I am the boss of my business and not Google!
Just my two cents ladies and gentlemen.
Off-Topic:
Terry I read elsewhere that you
charge $500 per hour for your services. How much do you think I can charge?