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Installing Honey Pots

should there be a nofollow in quicklinks

Author: L.Gogan (5 Feb 13 6:44am)

Hi

It seems to me that there should be a rel="nofollow" as part of the quicklinks link so that genuine search engines, who only look at the code and not the visible page, etc don't follow the link.

Should I include it?

Re: should there be a nofollow in quicklinks

Author: H.User1325 (5 Feb 13 9:27am)

A quick search here for "Search engines" find these post you may find interesting:

http://www.projecthoneypot.org/board/read.php?f=4&i=36&t=36#reply_36

http://www.projecthoneypot.org/board/read.php?f=8&i=59&t=57#reply_59

http://www.projecthoneypot.org/board/read.php?f=4&i=723&t=723#reply_723

Obviously there are robots and there are robots. It is safe to assume that bots like Google, Yahoo or bing are "well behaved" and may follow the link to the honey pot but will not harvest any email addresses.

honey pots include:

<meta name="robots" content="noarchive">
<meta name="robots" content="noindex">

Adding to the quickLink won't heart.

Re: should there be a nofollow in quicklinks

Author: L.Gogan (6 Feb 13 3:13am)

Thanks