Does a "nofollow" attribute on a link prevent URL discovery by search engines?
- by Stephen Ostermiller
I know that nofollow prevents link juice from being passed across a link. But if search engine robots discover a link with a nofollow on it, will they add that link to their crawl queue?
In other words, if I create a link to a brand new page and put a rel=nofollow attribute on that link, will it prevent search engine bots (particularly Googlebot)…