How to Use No Follow HTML Code

Several major search engine companies, including Google, MSN and Yahoo!, have jointly adopted a new Web design attribute called No Follow, which is intended to to reduce the amount of hyperlink spam and incorrect indexing that occurs in search engines. The No Follow attribute is inserted directly into the HTML code of any Web page with hyperlinks on it, and when applied, search engines will see the code and exclude the linked site from its indexing and statistics.

Things You'll Need

• Web server
• Coding program

Instructions

1. Open a new blank page in your coding program.

2. Insert a traditional hyperlink into your page by typing:
   <a href="http://address.com">My Site</a>

3. Replace "http://address.com" in the link code with the address of the Web page you want to link to from your site.

4. Replace "My Site" in the link code with the label of the hyperlink as you want it to appear on your page.

5. Add the No Follow attribute to the hyperlink by typing:
   rel="nofollow"
   into the link code. The final link code be:
   <a href="http://address.com" rel="nofollow">My Site</a>

6. Save the new Web page as an HTML document and upload it to your active Web server. Now when outside users click on the links with the No Follow attribute, data will not be sent to search engines for indexing.