XML sitemap and NoFollow

[J-Spider]

Here's an odd predicament:

Say you want to have a page indexed but you don't necessarily want to give it any "link juice" from your other pages. So you nofollow the page on all internal links but you add the page to your XML sitemap. what happens? Does the page get indexed because it's on the XML sitemap? Or does the page get ignored because it's nofollowed from all other pages?

Also, assume this page has no inbound links from other site.

Any thoughts on how the SE's would handle that situation?

Thx,

[tamecrow]

You should use a nofollow meta tag on the page itself to cover all bases. If you want it indexed, it should be on your sitemap. If you don't want it indexed, use robots.txt.

[Webnauts]

Originally Posted by tamecrow

You should use a nofollow meta tag on the page itself to cover all bases.

That is not correct. If you have a robots meta tag nofollow on the page, you will not pass juice to the pages your are linking to on the page.

[tamecrow]

Originally Posted by Webnauts

That is not correct. If you have a robots meta tag nofollow on the page, you will not pass juice to the pages your are linking to on the page.

It's irrelevant - the page won't have any juice to pass if it is nofollowed itself from each other page.

The only failsafe way to do this is to ensure that the target page has a nofollow attribute on every link pointing to it.

[Webnauts]

Originally Posted by tamecrow

It's irrelevant - the page won't have any juice to pass if it is nofollowed itself from each other page.

The only failsafe way to do this is to ensure that the target page has a nofollow attribute on every link pointing to it.

Let me ask you now a question: If I link to one of your pages how can you prevent the juice being pass to that page?