Nofollow
A link qualification indicating that the publisher does not want to endorse the destination in the ordinary way.
What Nofollow does not show
Search engines may treat it as a hint rather than an absolute command.
Where Nofollow comes up on this site
- Meta robots vs X-Robots-Tag vs robots.txt: which one controls indexingLayer 2: meta robots and X-Robots-Tag are about the fetched page Both carry the same directives, noindex , nofollow , nosnippet , noimageindex , max-snippet , unavailable_after , and a crawler applies whichever it finds.
- Staging site leak: how to find a staging URL in your live pages and close itIf the platform does not, send X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow from the staging host's server configuration, which a crawler honours without reading the page, and disallow everything in the staging host's own robots.txt as a second layer, remembering that…
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Questions about Nofollow
What is Nofollow?
A link qualification indicating that the publisher does not want to endorse the destination in the ordinary way.
What does Nofollow not show or guarantee?
A link qualification indicating that the publisher does not want to endorse the destination in the ordinary way. Search engines may treat it as a hint rather than an absolute command.
Which area of the glossary does Nofollow belong to?
Content architecture and SEO: How pages, links and intent are organised so an entity is findable, and what a link or a structure can and cannot transfer.
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