| 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 |