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Why isn't rel="nofollow" a solution to this? According to the docs [1] Use the nofollow value when other values don't apply, and you'd rather Google not asso
by hirundo 5y ago
Why isn't rel="nofollow" a solution to this? According to the docs [1]
Use the nofollow value when other values don't apply, and you'd rather Google not associate your site with, or crawl the linked page from, your site.
It seems like crawling a nofollow anchor tag in an email breaks this rule. Am I reading it wrong, is there an exception for emails, or is Google being inconsistent?
[1] https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guidelines/qualify-outbound-links https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guideline...
- sp332 5y agoThat's for the search engine. This is for malicious link checking. Wouldn't do much good if every spammer could say "please don't look at my malicious web site".
- dragonwriter 5y ago> It seems like crawling a nofollow anchor tag in an email breaks this rule. There is no actual rule stated in the quoted material, and it describes it aa a mechanism for specifying a preference for how Google handles the link when Google encounters the tag on the creator’s site, which a user email on Gmail...isn't, even approximately.