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    No Follow meta tags?

    Hi Guys.
    When I assign No Follow to a specific page via the admin and then view the page source for that page (after clearing cache and refreshing), I do not see a meta tag for the nofollow.

    Is this a bug?

    If not, how do the search engines know not to follow if there's no meta tag in the Head section?

    Thank you
    Ron

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    I think maybe it's a bug or maybe not.
    It depends on your view or better to say flynax team view.
    Actually, it seems,as I see, it depends on 'Logging in requied' field.
    if 'Logging in required' set to 'Yes', always it uses no follow attribute even if you set 'No follow' to 'No'.
    But if 'Logging in required' set to 'No', then 'No follow' works as you set it.
    Last edited by Bahram Soltanirad; September 25, 2017 at 09:16 PM.

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    So, apparently when No Follow is set to Yes, Flynax will add the attribute rel="nofollow" to the page link.

    But shouldn't we still have the "nofollow" meta tag for the page itself?

    Thanks
    Ron

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    Ron the quickest way (I found) to check this is via your /sitemap.xml feed. any page set to no follow simply will not appear in that feed, and as such is not indexed, the how, what where when thingy ?

    Running and reading the site map is possibly the quickest way to check you site pages are set correct and takes a few seconds to do.

    But I do know you really need to check every page and ensure what and what you do not indexed, I had a user group called private, but did not have that page set to no follow, (my own fault) so private it was not.
    Last edited by Pete Young; September 25, 2017 at 10:46 PM.

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    Hi Pete.
    Are you using Flynax's Sitemap plugin? If so, how is it working for you? And does it automatically submit to Google and Yahoo Bing? Or do you have to submit manually?

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    Yes I am using the plugin, and all seems to be working really well and I did submit my site map with google webmaster tools. / I had a lot of initial trouble with my seo but now It is puring along very well, most listings, not all I can get onto page one and I get multiple footprints (for use of a better term).

    One subject done a lot of work on and still developing, but do not really say much here anymore, as a thread I started about seo / flynax turned sour and I was told I knew nothing, So I am happy with that and flying low.

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    Hi, I think the terms no-follow and no-index are mixed up in this conversation. please correct me if i am wrong.
    no-follow : means all link that is listed in that webpage (href="http://www.example.com/" rel="nofollow">link</a>) are not given a high rank value by google but it still will be indexed and show up on sitemap.xml and shows up in google search.
    no-index : this tag will tell google not to crawl the page (exmp: <meta name="robots" content="noindex" />) so it will not show up in google search.

    so if a page is set to nofollow check the source of the page and make sure any external link added to the page have similar tag to this --> (href="http://www.example.com/" rel="nofollow">link</a>

    check this example from flynax demo --> https://postimg.org/image/85c6g6vtx/

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    You are nearly right.Formal answer from google is here.
    https://support.google.com/webmaster...er/96569?hl=en

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    Quote Originally Posted by Samir Fakirane View Post
    Hi, I think the terms no-follow and no-index are mixed up in this conversation. please correct me if i am wrong.
    no-follow : means all link that is listed in that webpage (href="http://www.example.com/" rel="nofollow">link</a>) are not given a high rank value by google but it still will be indexed and show up on sitemap.xml and shows up in google search.
    no-index : this tag will tell google not to crawl the page (exmp: <meta name="robots" content="noindex" />) so it will not show up in google search.

    so if a page is set to nofollow check the source of the page and make sure any external link added to the page have similar tag to this --> (href="http://www.example.com/" rel="nofollow">link</a>

    check this example from flynax demo --> https://postimg.org/image/85c6g6vtx/
    Yes Samir, I agree that would be a correct explanation of it, what I can say then is any page set to no follow in flynax, (as best I can understand) does not appear in the .xml feed and as such would also then by default, not be indexed via the xml sitemap.

    I may be wrong on this as well, as like many it is tough working out the exact way this all works, but from my tests if you no follow it does not go into your xml feed, so we can say that much.
    Last edited by Pete Young; September 26, 2017 at 11:46 PM.

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