meta robots no follow on page for paid links
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Hi
I have a page containing paid links. i would like to add no follow attribute to these links
but from technical reasons, i can only place meta robots no follow on page level (
is that enough for telling Google that the links in this page are paid and and to prevent Google penlizling the sites that the page link to?Thanks!
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It would be better to indicate the "nofollow" on the level of the link rather than on page level (as it will only impact the paid rather than all the links) but if this is not possible, the tag you want to use is ok.
rgds,
Dirk
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