Nofollow Meta Tag

[kens109]

Hello,

I'm new to this forum so please forgive if this has been discussed before.

I have a question about the nofollow meta tag being used at the page level. We have external links within our website's guest blog pages that we do not want followed. I would use a nofollow rel attribute on the link itself, but since we allow the blog to be posted using a wysiwyg-type text editor, that proves to be a little difficult to enforce. I was thinking about using the nofollow meta tag at the page level to handle this, but was a little unsure on how that may affect our own links...such as menu and side-bar links...that are on those pages. I'm not too concerned about those internal links not being followed on those particular blog pages, but I wanted to make sure a nofollow for a link on one page won't have any negative side effects on those same menu links that appear on various other pages without the nofollow meta tag. Would there be any negative side effects to using the nofollow meta tag like that?

Thanks in advance for any insight.

Best Regards,

Ken

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi Ken,

While you might be able to not see any issues with this when you would implement it I would say it's far from recommended. In the end, you're basically then telling Google that all internal links can also not be followed. So if you would, in the blog post, link to other internal sources you wouldn't pass any value around from there either.

Martijn.