I hope this is an appropriate group to ask this in:

On my web site, I want to have a lot of links going to another site.
However, I don't want those links to be counted in his favor by the
search engines. I don't mind having links to his site, but I don't
want him to outrank me as a result. How can I do this? Is there a meta
tag I can use on the page containing the links (one that will prevent
the search engine from seeing the links)? Or can I do it by setting
the file permissions in a certain way?

Many thanks for any .

Rich
To email me, remove the canine animal.

Rich wrote:
> I hope this is an appropriate group to ask this in:
>
> On my web site, I want to have a lot of links going to another site.
> However, I don't want those links to be counted in his favor by the
> search engines. I don't mind having links to his site, but I don't
> want him to outrank me as a result. How can I do this? Is there a meta
> tag I can use on the page containing the links (one that will prevent
> the search engine from seeing the links)? Or can I do it by setting
> the file permissions in a certain way?

Use ref="nofollow" in the links.
e.g. <a href="http://www.example.com/" rel="nofollow"> example </a>

http://www.google.com/googleblog/200...ment-spam.html

[...] From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel="nofollow") on
hyperlinks, those links won't get any credit when we rank websites in
our search results. [...] [We] would like to thank MSN Search and Yahoo!
for supporting this initiative. [...]

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Andrzej [en:Andrew] Adam Filip anfi@priv.onet.pl anfi@xl.wp.pl

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:06:00 +0000, Andrzej Adam Filip
<anfi@priv.onet.pl> wrote:

>>Rich wrote:
>>> I hope this is an appropriate group to ask this in:
>>>
>>> On my web site, I want to have a lot of links going to another site.
>>> However, I don't want those links to be counted in his favor by the
>>> search engines. I don't mind having links to his site, but I don't
>>> want him to outrank me as a result. How can I do this? Is there a meta
>>> tag I can use on the page containing the links (one that will prevent
>>> the search engine from seeing the links)? Or can I do it by setting
>>> the file permissions in a certain way?
>>
>>Use ref="nofollow" in the links.
>>e.g. <a href="http://www.example.com/" rel="nofollow"> example </a>
>>
>>http://www.google.com/googleblog/200...ment-spam.html
>>
>>[...] From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel="nofollow") on
>>hyperlinks, those links won't get any credit when we rank websites in
>>our search results. [...] [We] would like to thank MSN Search and Yahoo!
>>for supporting this initiative. [...]

Thank you for that! Is it only Google, MSN and Yahoo that will
recognise the rel="nofollow" tag then?

Rich

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:24:08 GMT, AdogAnotes@aol.com (Rich) wrote:

How about a single "nofollow" tag in the page head? Would that not
work?