Comments on: Nofollow Stops Google Indexing Your Site http://aleatory.clientsideweb.net/2009/11/09/nofollow-stops-google-indexing-your-site/ Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:11:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Matthew Slyman http://aleatory.clientsideweb.net/2009/11/09/nofollow-stops-google-indexing-your-site/comment-page-1/#comment-2646 Matthew Slyman Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:33:27 +0000 http://aleatory.clientsideweb.net/2009/11/09/nofollow-stops-google-indexing-your-site/#comment-2646 {PREVIOUS COMMENT STRIPPED OUT HTML TAGS. REPEAT COMMENT INCLUDING TAGS.} My website includes a page that uses the following meta tag: <meta name="ROBOTS" content="INDEX,NOFOLLOW" /> I’ve looked at the site with Google’s Webmaster Tools and this appears to be the only page that hasn’t been ranked. Pages with the following tag appear to have been ranked: <meta name="ROBOTS" content="ALL" /> So it seems that the problem you identified applies not only to rel=”nofollow” attribute, but also to the “NOFOLLOW” robots directive in the meta tags. GOOGLE: PLEASE FIX THIS. THIS IS A REALLY BASIC, ELEMENTARY AND PERVASIVE ERROR. {PREVIOUS COMMENT STRIPPED OUT HTML TAGS. REPEAT COMMENT INCLUDING TAGS.}

My website includes a page that uses the following meta tag:
<meta name=”ROBOTS” content=”INDEX,NOFOLLOW” />

I’ve looked at the site with Google’s Webmaster Tools and this appears to be the only page that hasn’t been ranked. Pages with the following tag appear to have been ranked:
<meta name=”ROBOTS” content=”ALL” />

So it seems that the problem you identified applies not only to rel=”nofollow” attribute, but also to the “NOFOLLOW” robots directive in the meta tags.

GOOGLE: PLEASE FIX THIS. THIS IS A REALLY BASIC, ELEMENTARY AND PERVASIVE ERROR.

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