So you have certain links on your website that you don’t want Google to follow. What is there to do? Simply set the “rel” attribute of the hyperlink tag to “nofollow”:

<a href=”http://www.geekpedia.com” rel=”nofollow”>Geekpedia</a>

This will prevent search engines from following the link to http://www.geekpedia.com from your page. The browsers will treat it just like any other link, however. This also means that PageRank (in Google’s case) will not be shared with the linked page.
This tag validates against XHTML 2.0.

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Web development and SEO article posted on Thursday, December 22nd, 2005 at 3:01 pm . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.