Comments on: Internal Linking – META nofollow, rel nofollow, robots.txt Confusion

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By: Bijaya

Bijaya — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:34:27 +0000

Superb post.Thanks Josh for posting such a nice article.

I do have a lot of confusion about the tag “noindex” & “nofollow” in the meta tag.Now I’m almost clear about it.

Expect such beautiful posts from you.

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Hanging / Dangling Web Pages Can Be PageRank Black Holes | BPWrap — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:22:35 +0000

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Hanging / Dangling Web Pages Can Be PageRank Black Holes | BPWrap — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:14:14 +0000

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By: Prepaid cell phones

Prepaid cell phones — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:37:30 +0000

Thanks for the simple explanation. I have just gone through one of my sites and added the nofollow tags where appropriate. I updated a lot of the pages while I was at it.

Rick

By: nweike

nweike — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:23:49 +0000

you have really cleared my confusion, i will quickly rusg to my blog and make amendments. Thanks a million times
I will make this blog a reugular read whenever am online

By: Josh Spaulding

Josh Spaulding — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:02:22 +0000

Hey Stephen, nice to see you around

Just be careful and don’t blog things that shouldn’t be blocked, so you still have a good internal linking structure.

I nofollow my name because I normally leave several comments on every single post on this blog, so it’s just kind of pointless to redirect link juice back to the main directory through my name as the anchor text. I’d rather that juice flow into my internal pages etc.

By: Stephen Cronin

Stephen Cronin — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:05:09 +0000

Umm, actually, I jumped the gun. When I went to edit my robots.txt, I found that I’m only disallowing the following:

Disallow: */trackback*
Disallow: /wp-*
Disallow: */feed/*

I guess that’s fine. I’m a bit surprised though, I thought I was blocking categories too.

By: Stephen Cronin

Stephen Cronin — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:37:14 +0000

Hi Josh,

Long time no see. Great post. It’s made me realise I’m doing things wrong. I’ve got the noindex,follow meta tag on my category, tag and date archive pages (courtesy of the All In One SEO plugin), but I’m also blocking them in robots.txt.

I guess that means I’m missing out on the PR that could be passed by the category page. I’m going to remove the blocks in robots.txt and just go with the meta tags.

Out of interest, why do you no follow the link on your own name in the comments? Is it because you want Google to associate the term “Internet Marketing Blog” with the site and don’t want the term “Josh Spaulding” to dilute that?

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Authority and Internal Linking for SEO — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:14:16 +0000

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