: Is meta nofollow different from rel="nofollow"? If I put on my website <meta name="robots" content="nofollow" />, does that prevent from passing juice to all the links on my website (internal

@Sent6035632

Meta Nofollow = don't follow all links on this page
Rel Nofollow = don't follow this link.


Pretty simple distinction between the two.

Don't spider my website is the general message if you meta nofollow all your pages.

So, planning on having a sitemap.xml so Google can find more than the index page if you Meta Nofollow all the pages? How will Google determine the internal relevance of pages if it can't follow the link structure?

Most link juice questions are often over-thinking the issue and lead to SEO damage.

Create a useful website with useful content and a web of links to tie it together. Google fully understands this sort of website. Let the search engine have full access so your website gets completely indexed.


Use Meta Nofollow on things like login, cart and search pages to restrict spidering if someone links to them from another website.
Use link rel=nofollow the comments section on blogs to prevent spamming, on links to login pages, add to cart buttons, cart pages and other places where search engines don't belong to prevent following those specific links.

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@Rambettina238

They are for different things. The meta tag is for crawling - whether or not search engine robots should follow links on your page in order to find other pages to crawl. The rel="nofollow" attribute is specifically for links that shouldn't pass PageRank.

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