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What would the response be if you complied but added noindex nofollow to the IMG tag?

• weird-eye-issue 5y ago
  Probably nothing since you can't noindex or nofollow img tags. If you mean an "a" tag then they would definitely be annoyed but would also probably be confused when they see the "noindex" since that won't do anything
  • nkozyra 5y ago
    The article indicates they were asking for attribution in the form of an anchor tag. rel="noindex" has value, as would "UGC" Likewise the page would could have noindex as top level meta field. But I think you got what I was getting at anyway.
    • weird-eye-issue 5y ago
      I don't think noindex on a backlink will really do anything. But yeah sponsored, UGC, and nofollow all do the same to Google Noindexing the page with the backlink doesn't mean it won't be crawled, it just means it probably won't be indexed so I don't think that will do anything either
      • nkozyra 5y ago
        > it just means it probably won't be indexed so I don't think that will do anything either Of course it would do something, it just wouldn't be the best way to do it. The goal is not to prevent Google from getting to that site, it's to prevent the backlink value of the anchor tag from a good PageRank site. Either way it all seems like you're trying to find a weird quibble here. I was simply presenting two ways to devalue linking as a thought exercise. They would both work.