SEO - noindex, nofollow and canonical tag

seo canonical-link nofollow noindex
wow picture wow · Jul 25, 2009 · Viewed 15.3k times · Source

I need some explanation about my question.

Example on my header already added

<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" />

Should I add canonical tag again to my header?

<link rel=”canonical” href=”http://www.example.com/product.php?item=big-fish” />

Let me know :)

canonical tag

Update

we know canonical tag is currently also supported by google, yahoo and live search. How about noindex and nofollow? yahoo and live (bing) supported too?

Answer

random picture random · Jul 25, 2009

Google, Yahoo!, and Bing (Live) support noindex and nofollow in the meta directives.

noindex tells the search engines to not bother caching your page for inclusion in their results.

nofollow tells them that you don't want any of the links on the page to be followed.

Adding the canonical tag on the same page won't hurt, but effects are unknown unless you talk with one of the search engineers.

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