Need help

[kirada1]

Hi
I designed a website for a dog kennel club adelaidehillskc.kirada.net and have been instructed by one of there sponsers to change their link to a nofollow. I am at a loss - can anyone help me. There link is a graphic on every page

Here is there email to me

Hi,

Thank you for your time just now and for prioritising this for us. We appreciate, as a business partner, you have proactively linked to our website (royalcanin.com.au).

The format of the link from your site to Royalcanin.com.au has resulted in Google applying a penalty to our site. It is likely that Google may also apply a penalty to your site if it has not already.

It is a simple fix. Please request your website administrator to fix the below listed link(s) this using the instructions attached as a matter of urgency.

For further information on how to adjust the link to our website (royalcanin.com.au) to a ‘nofollow’ link please visit:https://support.google.com/webmaster...er/96569?hl=en .

If you could please confirm when this has been actioned; if not we will follow-up with you to confirm the action has been taken by 6 March.

Pages that link to Royalcanin.com.au:
<http://adelaidehillskc.kirada.net/
http://adelaidehillskc.kirada.net/battle.htm
http://adelaidehillskc.kirada.net/contactdetails.htm
http://adelaidehillskc.kirada.net/directions.htm
http://adelaidehillskc.kirada.net/juniorhandlers.htm
http://adelaidehillskc.kirada.net/links.htm
http://adelaidehillskc.kirada.net/pastresults.htm
http://adelaidehillskc.kirada.net/puppy.htm
http://adelaidehillskc.kirada.net/queenstrophy.htm
http://adelaidehillskc.kirada.net/results.htm
http://adelaidehillskc.kirada.net/schedules.htm
http://adelaidehillskc.kirada.net/sponsors.htm>

Instructions

Please find below instructions to share with your web master or administrator on how setup the link to our website.

How to link to the Royal Canin Website
When an external link is setup, it is by default a ‘dofollow’ link. It is important to change the default external link to the Royal Canin website from a ‘dofollow’ link into ‘nofollow’ so the link does not violate Google webmaster guidelines.

Creating a nofollow link using rel=“Nofollow” after the URL:
1. Switch to HTML.

2. Add the rel=”nofollow” attribute straight after the Royal Canin URL you are linking to; and before the anchor text. This is what it should look like:

<a href=”http://www.royalcanin.com.au” rel=”nofollow”>Click here for information on Royal Canin</a>

Please note: There is a single space between the end quote marks (purple) of the URL (blue) and the rel=”nofollow” (red). The green is the Anchor Text for the link.

3. Update your page.

4. Change back to your Visual setting. Check to see the link still works.

[gwpriester]

Check back in a bit. I'm sure one of our tech savvy members will have a simple explanation.

[Acorn]

Wow! and I buy Royal Canin for our standard poodles!

rel="nofollow" is not easy to apply in Xara. It probably needs a Dear Xara... request for it to be added to the application functionality.

You've done the right thing by immediately removing the links.
If you now add in the following to Web Properties... > Website > HTML Code (head):

<meta name="robots" content="nofollow" />

you will comply with their request when you add back the URL.

This approach is a blunderbuss as all other external URLs then are forced to be no-follow links.
All this is doing is stopping web bots trawling other sites from your links.
The clicking of the link still opens the external site so no user is affected.

They have assumed you have an HTML editor mode but Xara is not designed to do this.
To achieve for individual links on a page would require the use of some jQuery code and Naming of the specific links to identifying those needing the no-follow treatment.

Acorn