I have some affiliate websites. The newest Google Panda update and the new landing page definition of bridge page have really hurt my income.
I would like to try a work around but in order to do that I need to stop the Google spider (or all spiders) from reading or indexing my pages other then my homepage.
in other words I need to set my homepage up in such a manner that the spider will follow all links except those which lead to another page.
Can anyone here help me?
can this be done via robot.txt or via .htaccess?
I appreciate your help.
Michael
How do I stop pages from being followed by spiders (2 posts)
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michaelgs
Posted 1 year ago # -
You can try the "nofollow" meta tag on the homepage only. This should in theory allow the homepage to be indexed, but tell spiders not to follow any links. Example:
<meta name="robots" content="nofollow" />Reference: http://www.seoconsultants.com/meta-tags/robots/
You can use the is_front_page() conditional tag to code this in your header.php so that the line only appears on your homepage.
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