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MrStitch · 2007-08-29 14:59:59

I've got a form on my product pages, with 'buy now' buttons. Those buttons take the user to the third-party shopping cart I have, where the user can 'check out' or 'continue' shopping.

I'd like to add rel="nofollow" to those buttons, as they lead to utility pages.... not to mention "Someone Else's Site". I've placed the code in a couple different places, but I'm still not seeing any pink from my 'nofollow' checker (FF addon).

Got any ideas where to put the nofollow? Do I even need the nofollow since there is no visible <a> in the code?

Code: html

<form action="http://ww3.aitsafe.com/cf/addmulti.cfm?userid=5437741" method="post">

                <input type="hidden" name="userid" value="5437741">

                <input type="hidden" name="return" value="www.willylures.com/silverleaftrolling.htm">

                <table width="100%" border="0">

                <tr>

                        <td width="80%">Size</td><td>Quantity</td>

                </tr>

                <tr>

                        <td width="80%">1 <b>$2.49</b></td>

                        <td>

                                <input type="text" name="qty1" size="3">

                                <input type="hidden" name="product1" value="Silver Leaf Perch Size 1 0301002mp">

                                <input type="hidden" name="units1" value="1.60">

                                <input type="hidden" name="price1" value="2.49">

                        </td>

                </tr>

                <tr>

                        <td width="80%">2 <b>$2.49</b></td>

                        <td>                

                                <input type="text" name="qty2" size="3">

                                <input type="hidden" name="product2" value="Silver Leaf Perch Size 2 0302002mp">

                                <input type="hidden" name="units2" value="1.6">

                                <input type="hidden" name="price2" value="2.49">

                        </td>

                </tr>

                <tr>

                        <td width="80%">3 <b>$2.99</b></td>

                        <td>

                                <input type="text" name="qty3" size="3">

                                <input type="hidden" name="product3" value="Silver Leaf Perch Size 3 0303002mp">

                                <input type="hidden" name="units3" value="1.6">

                                <input type="hidden" name="price3" value="2.99">

                        </td>

                </tr>

                <tr>

                 <td colspan="2" align="right"><input type="submit" value="Buy Now!"></td>

                </tr>

                </table>

                </form>

Northie · 2007-08-29 17:34:46

bot's can't click buttons, fill out forms etc.

They are not links and therefore cannot be followed

As such, nofollow tags are meaningless

waveshoppe · 2007-08-30 11:05:25

Stitch, see Randfish asking questions of Matt Cutts: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/questions-an … -spam-guru

Q) Does Google recommend the use of nofollow internally as a positive method for controlling the flow of internal link love?

A) Yes – webmasters can feel free to use nofollow internally to help tell Googlebot which pages they want to receive link juice from other pages

(Matt's precise words were: The nofollow attribute is just a mechanism that gives webmasters the ability to modify PageRank flow at link-level granularity. Plenty of other mechanisms would also work (e.g. a link through a page that is robot.txt'ed out), but nofollow on individual links is simpler for some folks to use. There's no stigma to using nofollow, even on your own internal links; for Google, nofollow'ed links are dropped out of our link graph; we don't even use such links for discovery. By the way, the nofollow meta tag does that same thing, but at a page level.)

MrStitch · 2007-08-30 11:11:39

Thanks Northie.

WS - Yeah, my speculation exactly. Thus I'm going around 'fixing' things.

Northie · 2007-08-30 12:52:05

If you don't want a page to get link juice, don't link to it!

d'oh !

waveshoppe · 2007-08-30 13:24:58

Northie, MrStitchs OP is cryptic because he did not state if he was working with hyperlinks or images. But consideration should be given to items such as 3rd party carts using hyperlinks. If it’s an ecom site and if the cart is accessed via a text link, it’s possible that the site could have an infinitive number of site wide OBLs. You really cant give nofollows a blanket “d'oh !”

Edit: I stand corrected, he did say buttons, but if there are any hyperlinks then use of nofollow could apply.

Last edited by waveshoppe (2007-08-30 13:51:37)

Northie · 2007-08-30 13:51:30

waveshoppe wrote:
Northie, MrStitchs OP is cryptic because he did not state if he was working with hyperlinks or images. But consideration should be given to items such as 3rd party carts using hyperlinks. If it’s an ecom site and if the cart is accessed via a text link, it’s possible that the site could have an infinitive number of site wide OBLs. You really cant give nofollows a blanket “d'oh !”

Oh yes I can

hyperlinks are there for a reason, and if search engines wish to use them to help measure the net, then so be it.

I'm very big on 'first principles' and nofollow goes against them.

waveshoppe · 2007-08-30 14:04:00

Consistency and “first principals” are all dandy, but I would think that flexability is also needed, how else can you make adendums to your “first principals”?

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#1 2007-08-29 14:59:59

No Follow on Buttons

Code: html

#2 2007-08-29 17:34:46

Re: No Follow on Buttons

#3 2007-08-30 11:05:25

Re: No Follow on Buttons

#4 2007-08-30 11:11:39

Re: No Follow on Buttons

#5 2007-08-30 12:52:05

Re: No Follow on Buttons

#6 2007-08-30 13:24:58

Re: No Follow on Buttons

#7 2007-08-30 13:51:30

Re: No Follow on Buttons

waveshoppe wrote:

#8 2007-08-30 14:04:00

Re: No Follow on Buttons

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