Comments on: Mark Meta widget with “nofollow” http://alexander.holbreich.org/2008/02/mark-meta-widget-with-rel-nofollow/ Personal blog of Alexander Holbreich Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:43:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: shuron http://alexander.holbreich.org/2008/02/mark-meta-widget-with-rel-nofollow/comment-page-1/#comment-2798 shuron Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:38:00 +0000 http://alexander.holbreich.org2008/02/mark-meta-widget-with-rel-nofollow/#comment-2798 "... but who knows the real algorithm of PageRank distribution?" I tell you the same. ;) I can understand your considerations, but the point is we don't really know how it actually works, we can only assume and believe. The fact (or believe) that disallowed link has no pagerank is no guaranty for that the outgoing pagerank to other sites of the homepage was not declined by the not marked link. However there is nothing bad in doing it twice (nofollow and robots.txt) would you agree? :) In addition well known SEO Guru Matt Cutts point's us to do this. Does he know about robots.txt??? ;) “… but who knows the real algorithm of PageRank distribution?” I tell you the same. ;) I can understand your considerations, but the point is we don’t really know how it actually works, we can only assume and believe.

The fact (or believe) that disallowed link has no pagerank is no guaranty for that the outgoing pagerank to other sites of the homepage was not declined by the not marked link.

However there is nothing bad in doing it twice (nofollow and robots.txt) would you agree? :)

In addition well known SEO Guru Matt Cutts point’s us to do this. Does he know about robots.txt??? ;)

]]> By: Ivan Blinkov http://alexander.holbreich.org/2008/02/mark-meta-widget-with-rel-nofollow/comment-page-1/#comment-2796 Ivan Blinkov Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:55:00 +0000 http://alexander.holbreich.org2008/02/mark-meta-widget-with-rel-nofollow/#comment-2796 In my opinion the effect should be the same: no pages crawled => no pages indexed => no pages have assigned PR. At least it seems logical, but who knows the real algorithm of PageRank distribution? The only real prove of incorrectness of this opinion could be the page with positive PR, but which never was out of robots.txt block.I've never seen such a page yet, even with SeoQuake bar constantly turned on while surfing. In my opinion the effect should be the same: no pages crawled => no pages indexed => no pages have assigned PR. At least it seems logical, but who knows the real algorithm of PageRank distribution?

The only real prove of incorrectness of this opinion could be the page with positive PR, but which never was out of robots.txt block.I’ve never seen such a page yet, even with SeoQuake bar constantly turned on while surfing.

]]> By: shuron http://alexander.holbreich.org/2008/02/mark-meta-widget-with-rel-nofollow/comment-page-1/#comment-2776 shuron Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:51:00 +0000 http://alexander.holbreich.org2008/02/mark-meta-widget-with-rel-nofollow/#comment-2776 Yes something like <strong>User-agent: * Disallow: /wp-login.php</strong> in robots.txt is much easier indeed . But has it really same effect? I'm unsure. So robots.txt will prevent that pages from crawling. But will it affect the PageRank distribution too? Better is using both. Thank you, in any case, for this hint! Yes something like
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-login.php

in robots.txt is much easier indeed .
But has it really same effect? I’m unsure. So robots.txt will prevent that pages from crawling. But will it affect the PageRank distribution too? Better is using both.

Thank you, in any case, for this hint!

]]> By: Ivan Blinkov http://alexander.holbreich.org/2008/02/mark-meta-widget-with-rel-nofollow/comment-page-1/#comment-2775 Ivan Blinkov Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:43:00 +0000 http://alexander.holbreich.org2008/02/mark-meta-widget-with-rel-nofollow/#comment-2775 In fact that's much easier to block /wp-* in robots.txt to prevent crawlers from following meta-links. In fact that’s much easier to block /wp-* in robots.txt to prevent crawlers from following meta-links.

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