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[HTML Gurus] Is the only nofollow = rel="nofollow"?

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William.Lau last edited by

From my knowledge only way an HTML link is nofollow is using rel="nofollow".

I was wondering if you have a link , is there anything you can put OTHER than rel="nofollow" within the <a></a>tags that make a link nofollow?
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SEOAndy @William.Lau last edited by

as i say only the two options / well three including robots.txt to not index the page
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William.Lau @SEOAndy last edited by

Thanks Andy.

I was more curious in regards to the <a></a>tag.
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SEOAndy @SEOAndy last edited by
correction the meta tag required index instructions too
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NOINDEX would prevent search from seeing that page and nofollow the links - 
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SEOAndy last edited by
page wide with the meta tag
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not a perfect solution i know but its that or individually - i believe
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