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November 28th, 2005 at 6:18 pm
Despite its name, rel=”nofollow” links are still followed and indexed. But, their rank (Page Rank, Search Rank, etc.) is not increased or decreased, as it would be with normal links. If you want to keep search bots away from certain pages, you will need to use a robots.txt file or the robots META tag. Or, you can use rel=”noindex,nofollow” to keep bots from indexing and adjusting the rank of specific links, but they will still follow and load the link.
November 28th, 2005 at 10:05 pm
James,
Thanks. That clarifies it.
Best,
Angsuman
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:49 am
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