[COLOR=“DarkOrchid”]All year long, but especially near the beginning of the year, many products I carry get discontinued. Instead of getting all those 404’s, someone suggested to me to put the “noindex,follow” in each product meta tags with text explaining that the product has been discontinued. This is going to be a very DUMB question…but how do I access the meta tags for products ? I see meta description, keywords & title…but don’t know how to put anything like this in the actual “tags”.
Thanks in advance for giving me what may be a first grade education[/COLOR] :oops:
Hi Dawn,
Google announced in early 2005 that hyperlinks with rel=“nofollow”[4] would not influence the link target’s PageRank.[5] In addition, the Yahoo and Bing search engines also respect this attribute value.[6]
On June 15, 2009, Matt Cutts, a well known software engineer of Google, announced[7] that GoogleBot will no longer treat nofollowed links in the same way, in order to prevent webmasters from using nofollow for PageRank Sculpting. As a result of this change the usage of nofollow leads to evaporation of pagerank.[citation needed] In order to avoid the above, SEOs developed alternative techniques that replace nofollowed tags with obfuscated Javascript and thus permit PageRank Sculpting. Additionally several solutions have been suggested that include the usage of iframes, flash and javascript.[citation needed]
Google states that their engine takes “nofollow” literally and does not “follow” the link at all. However, experiments conducted by SEOs show conflicting results. These studies reveal that Google does follow the link, but does not index the linked-to page, unless it was in Google’s index already for other reasons (such as other, non-nofollow links that point to the page)
I copied that from here
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow[/url]
John
Seems reasonable not to index a page that is referenced by a nofollow link. I.e. in cs-cart things like:
href=“?dispatch=auth.login”
should have rel=“nofollow” and the page should not be indexed either.
[quote name=‘johnbol1’]Hi Dawn,
Google announced in early 2005 that hyperlinks with rel=“nofollow”[4] would not influence the link target’s PageRank.[5] In addition, the Yahoo and Bing search engines also respect this attribute value.[6]
On June 15, 2009, Matt Cutts, a well known software engineer of Google, announced[7] that GoogleBot will no longer treat nofollowed links in the same way, in order to prevent webmasters from using nofollow for PageRank Sculpting. As a result of this change the usage of nofollow leads to evaporation of pagerank.[citation needed] In order to avoid the above, SEOs developed alternative techniques that replace nofollowed tags with obfuscated Javascript and thus permit PageRank Sculpting. Additionally several solutions have been suggested that include the usage of iframes, flash and javascript.[citation needed]
Google states that their engine takes “nofollow” literally and does not “follow” the link at all. However, experiments conducted by SEOs show conflicting results. These studies reveal that Google does follow the link, but does not index the linked-to page, unless it was in Google’s index already for other reasons (such as other, non-nofollow links that point to the page)
I copied that from here
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow[/url]
John[/QUOTE]
[COLOR=“DarkOrchid”]Oh boy…that leaves me with doubts now John. Doesn’t look like it’s a good idea then. I guess my only option is to add a redirect in .htaccess…which means hundreds of lines of 301
I hope Google or the SE’s don’t set a limit on 301’s[/COLOR] :rolleyes:
Not sure really, others here would have better knowledge on it than me, I have nofollow in lots of places but I just found this article last week.
putting them in .htaccess isnt to bad if you use a apreadsheet first and just copy/paste them all in.
JOhn
[quote name=‘tbirnseth’]Seems reasonable not to index a page that is referenced by a nofollow link. I.e. in cs-cart things like:
href=“?dispatch=auth.login”
should have rel=“nofollow” and the page should not be indexed either.[/QUOTE]
[COLOR=“DarkOrchid”]That is exactly what happened to my site. I don’t know if it was just the Lolly skin, but I just found out a week ago why I have been just about out of business since implementing CS Cart 15 months ago. Someone pointed out to me that the currency options had a rel=“nofollow” status. As soon as I deleted the 2 optional currencies, I now find Google is now starting to index some of my pages…whereas before there was NOT one in its index. I can’t believe it was coded that way. I had just about given up,[/COLOR]
[quote name=‘johnbol1’]Not sure really, others here would have better knowledge on it than me, I have nofollow in lots of places but I just found this article last week.
putting them in .htaccess isnt to bad if you use a apreadsheet first and just copy/paste them all in.
JOhn[/QUOTE]
[COLOR=“DarkOrchid”]Maybe there will be other experiences posted here. Sure hope so. I can’t imagine putting all those 301’s…and then not knowing exactly how long they need to stay there before dropping out of the SE’s.
Thanks very much John for the article and insight. At least we now know what COULD happen…[/COLOR]