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Can you nofollow form submission buttons

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Can you nofollow form submission buttons Tribune's SEO Team 5/9/09 6:50 PM Hey, so Googlebot is trying to fill out some forms on the Tribune newspaper sites and he isn't doing a great job at it and he keeps getting stuck in an infinite URL scenario.  Now, I know I could just Robots.txt the created URLs to disallow or noinde
Re: Can you nofollow form submission buttons RainboRick 5/9/09 9:04 PM To answer your question, no, you can't add rel="nofollow" to a <form> tag.  Your only choices are to switch the method to "POST" or to block the URL via robots.txt.  And you shouldn't count on the rel="nofollow" attribute as being taken literally by
Re: Can you nofollow form submission buttons voicaemil 5/10/09 3:01 AM block the url with a meta that should also work.
Re: Can you nofollow form submission buttons Autocrat 5/10/09 8:58 AM I Suggest supplying more info on the issues the bot is having. If you can supply feedback to Googel abut hte problmes the bot is encountering with the forms - it may help get hte problem resolved. (And yes - it would help if they gave peopel some so