Question

I have a rails application. In my comments section I have report as offensive content’ link on some (article) pages of the site. I want to get crowed the articles by search engines but not particular link report as offensive content.

So , In brief , My question is –
How to Prevent spiders/search engines from following the ‘report as offensive content’ link of my site ?

Answer 1

I found one answer

Pros : – Its easy . Just One line

<a href="mypage.html" rel="nofollow" />

But Cons :-

Our tests show that some search engines do crawl and index nofollow links. The nofollow tag will probably diminish the ranking value a link will provide but it cannot be reliably used to stop search engines from following a link.