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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!

Solution

  • 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).