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Shakti
Shakti

Reputation: 189

How to make url "no-follow" for google and other search engines?

I want to make an url "no-follow" for google and other search engines.

Note: There is no link for this url. So how can i do it? Please help

I have also read about robot.txt. is it related to google "no-follow"? Please explain and give some detail.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 269

Answers (1)

prograhammer
prograhammer

Reputation: 20590

To hide a link so robots don't follow it (typically you'll find this in forums where they don't want people trying to use the forum for their own SEO purposes), just use the rel attribute:

<a href="/xyz/user" rel="nofollow">user</a>

Read more from google here.

EDIT:
If you want to hide a complete page (URL) on your site then you can use a robots.txt file placed in your public webroot:

robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /xyz/user

You can use an online robots.txt tester like this one to confirm it works. (Google has a robots.txt tester as well).

Upvotes: 1

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