NOFOLLOW

[bobby9101]

I am creating a page that will have several links on it. I was wondering if there was a way to set it so that the search engines won't follow some of the links but will follow others.
I am selling ad space on the page and the buyers want to earn pagerank from the link. the other links i don't want to be seen as reciprocal links.
any help would be appreciated

[braknews]

Add REL=NOFOLLOW to the link & the links won't be followed by the major search engines:

Link text here

[bobby9101]

and i will not transfer pagerank and links to them?

[bobby9101]

I have much LESS links that i want followed.
is it possible to have it set to no follow but then have the other links set to follow?

[braknews]

Originally Posted by bobby9101

and i will not transfer pagerank and links to them?

As Google will not follow a REL=NOFOLLOW link PR will not be transferred.

Originally Posted by bobby9101

I have much LESS links that i want followed.
is it possible to have it set to no follow but then have the other links set to follow?

Do you mean is there a way on a page to say all of the links are NOFOLLOW & then on several links say FOLLOW?

I don't think that is possible.

The REL=NOFOLLOW would have to be entered for each link you do not want followed.

[Mac 5]

add the pages you don't want indexed to your robots.txt file also.
http://www.searchengineworld.com/rob...s_tutorial.htm

[bobby9101]

i figured that i would robot.txt the whole page.
do i also need to do the meta tag "nofollow"?

[Mac 5]

Any page you add to the robots.txt file won't be indexed by many of the search engines (a few SE, robots, spiders, do not use robots.txt.). If you want some pages, but not others listed, only put the ones you don't want indexed at all on the file.

Some people want all visitors to enter through the homepage and restrict all the others. You'd be better off letting the engines follow most links. Different pages may be keyword rich and rank higher in other searches. A lot of your interior pages may rank higher than your homepage. Unless their are a few pages you really don't want them to enter on, like a privacy policy, page of credits, etc. I'd let it follow most links and let the viewer click around once they get there. It's better to get a visitor to enter on an interior page than not at all.