: Can I use nofollow for offsite links without it affecting my page rank? What I have is a page with almost all offsite links. Each clicked link is forwarded on to the destination. What I would

Posted in: #GoogleSearch #Nofollow #SearchEngines #Seo

What I have is a page with almost all offsite links. Each clicked link is forwarded on to the destination. What I would like the search engines to do is to index the text between the anchor tag and not follow the link itself.

<a href="somelink">Index This Text Only</a>

I've read several articles and they all seem to contradict themselves as to when to use nofollow.

What's been happening over the past 2 months that the site has been live is that both Google and Bing are crawling the site as well as all the links on the site that it has been forwarded to. The search engines are now generating a lot of 404s for images and files that never existed on my site but rather seems to correlate to the site it was forwarded to. The search engines don't seem to honor the 302 header when forwarded.

I would like to get a definitive answer on the nofollow tag as it relates to my situation. Can I use nofollow to stop the 404s and if so, will it affect my page ranking negatively?

10.01% popularity Vote Up Vote Down

: If you want the website's email to be functional & website when browsed to show a Not Found page, simply point the A record to a non route able address. MX & other records should

@Becky754

0 Comments

: How do I fix deleteme.xxxxxxxx.php I have this issue, which is related to a wrong installation that keep the file deleteme-xxxxxxxx(x's are a username or something) better described here: What

@Becky754

Posted in: #Ftp

0 Comments

: Htaccess redirecting 404 URLs to Index page I am trying to setup my htaccess file such that all 404 pages are permanently redirected to the home/index page using 301. After I configure the

@Becky754

Posted in: #Htaccess

2 Comments

: Remove www from HTTPS request in Nginx I have the following code: server { listen 443; server_name www.domain.com; ssl on; ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/domain.com.crt; ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/domain.com.key;

@Becky754

Posted in: #Https #Nginx

1 Comments

Login to post a comment!

1 Comments

Sorted by latest first Latest Oldest Best

@Megan663

Nofollow isn't going to help you solve this problem. Nofollow prevents Google from assigning the authority to the links that it crawls, but it doesn't prevent Googlebot from discovering and crawling those links. If there is a bug in Googlebot as you suggest, you would need to stop it from crawling the links if you want the 404 errors to stop.

One way of doing so would be with robots.txt. It sounds like you are using a 302 redirect script on your site. The URL in your href might look something like /redirect.php?id=123456 which would then issue a 302 redirect to the final URL. In that case, adding Disallow: /redirect.php to your robots.txt file would prevent Googlebot from crawling the URLs and would effectively stop Google from finding new 404 errors.

10% popularity Vote Up Vote Down

Feed

: Can I use nofollow for offsite links without it affecting my page rank? What I have is a page with almost all offsite links. Each clicked link is forwarded on to the destination. What I would

More posts by @Becky754

: If you want the website's email to be functional & website when browsed to show a Not Found page, simply point the A record to a non route able address. MX & other records should

: How do I fix deleteme.xxxxxxxx.php I have this issue, which is related to a wrong installation that keep the file deleteme-xxxxxxxx(x's are a username or something) better described here: What

: Htaccess redirecting 404 URLs to Index page I am trying to setup my htaccess file such that all 404 pages are permanently redirected to the home/index page using 301. After I configure the

: Remove www from HTTPS request in Nginx I have the following code: server { listen 443; server_name www.domain.com; ssl on; ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/domain.com.crt; ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/domain.com.key;

Login to post a comment!

1 Comments

Back to top | Use Dark Theme