Prevent Googlebot following links in Gmail

How to prevent googlebot following links in gmail messages? Well bad news is “Googlebot is following links sent to subscribers of a mailing list by email and it is causing those subscribers to receive an unsubscribe meesage or a added download from the list or server”.

Bigger Bad news is that age old trick will NOT work here, we can not solve this simply by adding

<a href="signin.php" rel="nofollow">sign in</a>

Best way in my opinion is to reject download count based on the user agent. Which is Googlebot in case of Google Crawler.

find long answer here.

 


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2 responses to “Prevent Googlebot following links in Gmail”

  1. anthony Avatar
    anthony

    uhh.. why i am javascript errors on your blog..

    1. Shishir Sharma 'criss' Avatar

      I am not sure, can you give me the specifics.

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