Rules / robots rules

robots.nofollow

Default

error

Plugin

robots

A page does not ask search engines to ignore its links.

Why: nofollow, or none, stops search engines from following the page's links, so the pages it links to are found and ranked less.

The rule reads the robots and googlebot meta tags. For a URL, it also reads the X-Robots-Tag header, with its unscoped and googlebot: directives.

When off: pages with nofollow pass.

<!-- ✗ Fails -->
<meta name="robots" content="nofollow" />

<!-- ✓ Passes -->
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />

References

• Google: Robots meta tag specifications: nofollow and none stop Google from following the links of the page.