Meinolf Müller Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 Hello, when using rel="nofollow" within <a href="url/path/page.html" rel="nofollow">Link</a> regarding behaviour of Google: Is "page.html" indexed by Google and only deeper links within "page.html" aren't followed or does it mean that "page.html" is ignored completely? Thanks for your information. Meinolf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingolme Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 All it means is that Google will not follow the link, but unless the page itself has a noindex meta tag or is blocked by robots.txt Google can still index it. The nofollow link is usually used for links to external websites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meinolf Müller Posted May 20, 2018 Author Share Posted May 20, 2018 On 5/19/2018 at 10:13 AM, Ingolme said: ... Google can still index it. Hello, thanks, can he or will he? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingolme Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 Google will index the page when it finds it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meinolf Müller Posted May 24, 2018 Author Share Posted May 24, 2018 On 5/20/2018 at 7:59 PM, Ingolme said: Google will index the page when it finds it. Do you mean "when it finds it" directly from the given link or if the url is referenced thru another path within the site? The reason I put those questions is, that some people don't understand what I mean. They tell me, that you and they do mean the same, but say, that the link defined with rel="nofollow" is only indexed, when reachable thru another path, e.g. thru sitemap. Regards Meinolf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsonesuk Posted May 24, 2018 Share Posted May 24, 2018 Any link from other site pages , menu, sitemap or external website pages that link to a page, the bots will attempt to visit that page. You may have 'nofollow/noindex' in 'robots' meta tag or have file robot.txt denying all bots to a page through these, but! Unfortunately not all bots follow these set rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingolme Posted May 24, 2018 Share Posted May 24, 2018 5 hours ago, Meinolf Müller said: Do you mean "when it finds it" directly from the given link or if the url is referenced thru another path within the site? The reason I put those questions is, that some people don't understand what I mean. They tell me, that you and they do mean the same, but say, that the link defined with rel="nofollow" is only indexed, when reachable thru another path, e.g. thru sitemap. Regards Meinolf Google will not find it through that specific link, but it is most likely capable of finding the page through other means. If you have a page that's public on the internet, Google's crawler will usually find a way to it. If you want to prevent Google from indexing the page, as I said before, use robots.txt or the meta robots tag to indicate that you don't want it indexed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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