By Recently one of my reader contact me and asked how can he used nofollow link without rel=”nofollow”.
Then I get confused and asked him why he want to do that? Then he answered that he had a website and want to do that because when anyone view his page source he can see that is dofollow but he used nofollow.
So what is nofollow?
It is the question which I heard many times. According to Wikipedia
Nofollow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct some search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target’s ranking in the search engine’s index.
How to use nofollow link without rel=”nofollow”
First open robots.txt file from your favorite text editor like Notepad, Wordpad etc. Then just add
User-agent: *
Disallow: url.html
Disallow: url.html
Replace the url.html with your link. That’s it. Isn’t it great?
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Let me know what do you thing in comment section. Thanks.
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Dear Masud
Something seems to me wrong. Actually, what i know is -
rel=”nofollow” tells the google bot not to follow the link on any page to retain pagerank (But not work now).
The Disallow in robots.txt also prevent anytype of bot to crawl any page not any specific link.
Suppose, On your about me page http://ahmasud.com/aboutme you have pointed a outgoing link to my site http://electronicworkshop.net that is dofollow.
But if you now mentioned it in your robots.txt file as below-
User-agent: *
Disallow: http://electronicworkshop.net
I think it will not work. If you write your robots.txt as-
User-agent: *
Disallow: http://ahmasud.com/aboutme
Now google bot will not index your about me page. I think now you get the matter.isnt it? If i m in wrong please make me right.Just explain with an example.
Overall different idea.Thumbs up.
Thanks for your comment and also thanks for got out this. I am not sure but maybe you are right. I really appreciate it.
If i want to add a dofollow link, so what i will do?
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You don’t need to do anything just add a link. That is add dofollow by default.
Thanks