Thread: Nofollow Part of a Page

I want to add the nofollow attribute to a section of my website, but I cannot figure out how to do it. I know that I can go through each link and add a no follow tag, but I am trying to avoid having to heavily modify theme templates.

Does anyone know of a way that I can add the no follow tag through css, add no follow to a div, add a tag to my robots.txt file, or something like that to only add no follow to a certain portion of the website?

CSS is not a programming language. It defines style and behavior ... neither of which covers blocking SEs from following certain links. You will have to specify the links as "nofollow" by other means.

From Matt Cutts: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/
Q: Does this mean “PageRank sculpting” (trying to change how PageRank flows within your site using e.g. nofollow) is a bad idea?
A: I wouldn’t recommend it, because it isn’t the most effective way to utilize your PageRank. In general, I would let PageRank flow freely within your site. The notion of “PageRank sculpting” has always been a second- or third-order recommendation for us. I would recommend the first-order things to pay attention to are 1) making great content that will attract links in the first place, and 2) choosing a site architecture that makes your site usable/crawlable for humans and search engines alike.