Reputation: 257
I have the following code in a website footer:
<div class="examples-footer">
First text <a href="http://example.com/" target="_blank">Example</a>
Second text <a href="http://example.com/something" target="_blank">Example2</a>
</div>
I would like to designate the two links there as "nofollow". However, I can only manipulate the output by inserting additional text/html tags right after
<div class="examples-footer">
and before
First text <a href="http://example.com/" target="_blank">Example</a>
Just inserting the <rel="nofollow">
tag there won't work; is there a way to do this using the HTML markup under the constraints which I specified, or is it impossible?
Upvotes: 1
Views: 2521
Reputation: 9706
If you don't want bots/crawlers/spiders to follow any links on the page, use the robots meta
tag in the head:
<meta name="robots" content="nofollow">
If you don't want search engines counting a link for page ranking, use the rel
attribute in the link:
<a href="//stackoverflow.com" rel="nofollow">
Neither of these will prevent a human being (or cat) from following a clicked link, of course.
Upvotes: 1