i read in google if i add this code to my robots.txt

i will disallow robot to follow links in my site

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<META NAME="Googlebot" CONTENT="nofollow">


what everybody think about that

Well, it's rather a code to add in the html head, it's a meta tag.

And yes, if you put this, you'll prevent Google from crawling and indexing your pages.

The robots.txt equivalent for all site would be :

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User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /

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mhmdkhamis wrote:i read in google if i add this code to my robots.txt

i will disallow robot to follow links in my site

Do you mean that you want to prevent google from following outgoing links from your site, or you want to prevent google from indexing your site? The nofollow metatag (and <a href="..." rel="nofollow"> element) tells the bot that the link should not be followed, e.g., because they are untrusted (external) or lead to navigation pages of no interest (internal links, like viewforum.php?p=).

The robots.txt file defines sections of your site that you wish the bots to skip. Most honor your request, but they are not required to do so and some "bad bots" will do so with impunity. If you want to prevent access, you would need password protection using a .htaccess and .htpasswd file (if running Apache).