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Possible to prevent search engine spiders from infinitely crawling paging links on search results?

Our SEO team would like to open up our main dynamic search results page to spiders and remove the 'nofollow' from the meta tags. It is currently accessible to spiders via allowing the path in robots.txt, but with a 'nofollow' clause in the meta tag which prevents spiders from going beyond the first page. <meta name="robots" content="in...

SEO - noindex, nofollow and canonical tag

I need some explanation about my question. Example on my header already added <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" /> Should I add canonical tag again to my header? <link rel=”canonical” href=”http://www.example.com/product.php?item=big-fish” /> Let me know :) canonical tag Update we know canonical tag is currently a...

Magento Store - Add nofollow to Layered Navigation

Which file would I look in to add nofollow tags to my layered navigation? ...

Does Google follow Buttons/Inputs

Does google follow buttons and form inputs when crawling websites? I'm adding rel="nofollow" tags to links I don't want google to follow but I'm not sure if I need to add them to buttons. For example an 'add to cart' button. Thanks ...

Duplicate Content Question - SEO

I have an online store with different categories in the main navigatio. Ie. Category A, Category B etc. I also have a link in the main nav called 'Sale Items'. It points to a page which lists items which are on sale from both Category A and Category B. Should I add a rel="nofollow" tag to the Sale Items link? ...

Wicket: how to dynamically add meta robots : noindex if URL contains the string "?wicket:"

Hi everybody, Where would I start off with this? I know how to add meta tags to the page, I guess Page#onBeforeRender is a good place to do so. But: how do I determine whether the current URL containts "?wicket:"? Calling ((WebRequest)getRequest()).getHttpServletRequest().getRequestURL() only returns the part before the questionmark...

What does rel="nofollow me" do?

I notice on SO userpage all urls have rel="nofollow me" (i was thinking of putting nofollow on my site so i checked here to see what SO does). What does the 'me' part do? ...

Website url whitelists

I'm building a user content parser and am adding an automatic link parser. I'm adding a dialogue, that confirms that the user wants to go to the particular site being linked to. This is for two reasons. Anti phishing and spam combating. However I want to be able to disable both the dialogue and nofollow additions with commonly used websi...

Rails no follow link

I need to create no follow links with link_to. I'm looking for something like this: <%= link_to "example", example_path, :target => "_blank" %> But for no follow of course. ...

How to automatically set all links to nofollow in Rails

I know I can pass :rel => "nofollow" to link_to but is there a way to set that by default so I don't have to make changes in each link_to tag? ...