no follow or robots.txt or both

I dont know but everytime I talk about masking affiliate links to make them look pretty the whole room goes silent

I will try here see what happens



I got a lot of masked affiliate links. I have been noticing that google is indexing them. I decided I dont want them indexed. However I got a lot of them and to go back and no follow each one would be a nightmare.

Could I just block em all in robots? they all have the /go/ in the url so i was think I could just disallow: /go/ would that be pretty much the same effect?

any other suggestions here? I am all ears

 

i am doing both: never had problems

 

robots.txt is the way to go. Make sure to disallow all spiders and you are good to go.

 

User-agent: *
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /go/

look good?