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" “If you were using nofollow to block any sensitive areas of your site that you didn’t want crawled, it probably makes sense to go block these in a different w
by Jonnax 7y ago
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“If you were using nofollow to block any sensitive areas of your site that you didn’t want crawled, it probably makes sense to go block these in a different way,” said Patrick Stox
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Was this actually a thing people did?
I presumed nofollow was just for linking to external sites that you didn't want to boost their search engine ranking.
- xiphias2 7y agoWhat you are saying is the same. It's mainly for comments, as you want to decrease the reason for spambots to create links.
- freehunter 7y agoYour presumption is the correct way to use nofollow. If you have actual sensitive information it should be locked behind some sort of authentication.
- processing 7y agoYes back in the day - SEO’s would “link sculpt” internal do follow links as an on-site optimization technique. The idea being to give the do followed pages all of the link juice to rank their key pages for sales/conversion etc
- bhartzer 7y agoSeos did it to help pass PageRank to the more important pages, sure. But it’s also about not really allowing the bots to follow certain other pages like links to tags pages or other pretty much useless pages on the site. I’ve also seen people add nofollow on links to privacy policy and terms of service pages.