QuickView and NoFollow

[David_Moceri]

One of the sites I manage has QuickView pages for many or most of the products it sells. These ordinarily appear as hover icons, but they also exist as individual pages. The QuickView pages are listed as "Issues" in Moz, and they only have snippets of HTML code.

Would it be possible to take the QuickView pages off of the search engine index by using a NoFollow function? Thank you.

[Everett]

Hello David,

In the case of http://www.godirectappliance.com/ajax/product/quickview/id/734/ I would simply add a disallow statement for the/ ajax/product/quickview/ directory in the robots.txt file.

I'm assuming the URLs to these pages are contained in javascript instead of href tags since they are hover-over pages so you don't have to worry about wasting pagerank by linking to pages that are being blocked.

I'm not recommending a block at the /ajax/  or /ajax/product/ level at this point because I don't know what else is in those directories. It could be something you need Google to have access to in order to fully index a page.

[WesleySmits]

Perhaps it would be useful for you to use robots.txt then?
The meta tag is always preferred but if that is too much work since it need to be done manually this could be your answer.

To answer your question:
You keep talking about a no follow. This just means that no PageRank will be passed to those pages or from these pages. As i understood the problem i thought you wanted to get them out of the search results completely. This would require a no index. You could use a function in Magento to add a meta tag with NoFollow to everything within folder.

As i said before, the meta tag is always preferred since search engines don't have to listen to a robots.txt file. But it might just work for you.

[WesleySmits]

If you want pages not to be indexed by search engines you should 'noindex' them.

This can be done by placing the following code snippet in the head of your HTML code:

Is this what you're searching for?