> 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

> 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.