Nofollow link

[pepsi]

Hello,

I use Xara WD11 - Premium and I was wondering how to make a nofollow-link.

Does anyone have an idea?

Thanks in advance,

Pepsi

[Egg Bramhill]

Welcome to TG Pepsi. Try Google searching for robot txt file.

Here's one:

LINK

[Acorn]

Pepsi, this would mean adding an attribute rel=”nofollow” to a specified link.
In a Xara application I can see no way other than running a JavaScript / jQuery script against a Class or specified URL.

It could be a feature request to Xara to include such as a selectable attribute.

If you have access to your robots.txt file, I believe you could set up no follows there.

At a page level, you could add <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"> to the page's header.

Acorn

[pepsi]

Yes, I have access to the robots.txt, but when I put the line in my robots.txt all the links in my website are nofollow?
Is there no other way?

[Acorn]

This all seems very limiting but you could try:

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /

Allow: /
Sitemap: http://<site>/sitemap.xml

where you only have the pages you want to be included added into your sitemap.

I read Egg's link and there's nothing in there that remotely suggests the solution is a single line.
Do you know how to determine if any of your pages have the nofollow attribute?

It is limiting as you cannot control how any of your pages are accessed once they are published.
It is a case of locking all the doors but leaving the windows open.

How does Google handle nofollowed links?
In general, we don't follow them. This means that Google does not transfer PageRank or anchor text across these links. Essentially, using nofollow causes us to drop the target links from our overall graph of the web. However, the target pages may still appear in our index if other sites link to them without using nofollow, or if the URLs are submitted to Google in a Sitemap. Also, it's important to note that other search engines may handle nofollow in slightly different ways.

[source: https://support.google.com/webmaster...r/96569?hl=en]

Why bother?

You asked

Is there no other way?

I thought I offered three (now four) ways?

Any other solutions should involve you searching the web.

Acorn

[Egg Bramhill]

I was wondering how to make a nofollow-link.

As a matter of interest why do you want to use a nofollow link?

[siran]

A question to the experts.
Would it help to hide and encode the URL in javascript as in this example, or can search engines still follow the link?

[Acorn]

A question to the experts.
Would it help to hide and encode the URL in javascript as in this example, or can search engines still follow the link?

So now I know what the link is, as I have visited it andI include it in my site (without coding it away), any search engine can find it. Even just navigating away from it or going to another page is all available to your raft of tracking cookies.

Not an expert though,
Acorn

[Egg Bramhill]

It's my belief that nofollow was created to stop comment spam being used in forms, blogs and forums. It should be an option within the blog or forum software to set up nofollow links. Forms should have captcha to avoid the comment spam. Whilst it can be written in html, as Acorn points out, not directly within Xara.

That's why I asked the OP why he wanted to use nofollow links.