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To prevent a search engine from poking around links and executing actions meant from human beings. That's not how search engines interpret nofollow. Y
by cbr 14y ago
To prevent a search engine from poking
around links and executing actions
meant from human beings.
That's not how search engines interpret nofollow. You should use robots.txt instead.
EDIT: for details, see the original blog post, which says "those links won't get any credit" not "those links will be ignored": http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/preventing-comment-sp...
- walshemj 14y agoIts how I understand no follow - Used in login and print page links and the like to stop the creation of massive numbers of duplicate pages.
- PavlovsCat 14y agoIt works for that, because it means "disregard this link for ranking". But it doesn't forbid bots from crawling those links anyway, which is what the other poster seems to think it does.
- ferongr 14y agoWell, according to the logs we don't get requests from Google or other kinds of bots so it works for our use case.