Why is that a problem?

That rule tells googlebot and other search crawlers not to crawl files or links in the /nofollow folder

The only way that could be a problem is if you actually have a folder named nofollow. I recommend don't create a folder with that name so you will not have any problem, but if you really need a real folder with that name you could edit your copy of robots.txt to remove that rule.

The purpose of that rule is for when I want to track link clicks in google analytics for external links and other purposes where the page url I want to track for tracking purposes only does not really exist. For example I track click for advertisement links on this site like this:

<a href="http://i7media.net/mojoportal-skinning?utm_source=mojoportal&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=mojoportal" onclick="_gaq.push([&#39;_trackPageview&#39;,&#39;/nofollow/ad/i7media/i7media-skinning.aspx&#39;]);return true;"></a>

but I need that rule otherwise google bot and other crawlers will follow the link from the javascript and it will show up in webmaster tools as a broken link because /nofollow/ad/i7media-skinning.aspx is not a real url, it is a fake url used for tracking this link click in google analytics.

Hope that helps,

Joe

Hi,

I suggest you explain your problem in more detail. What you have said so far makes no sense at all. 

The Disallow: /nofollow/ in the robots.txt file shouldn't be a problem unless you have content under /nofollow/ which you want to be indexed by search engines. If that is the problem, remove Disallow: /nofollow/ from your robots.txt file. If that is not the problem, you need to explain your problem in detail so that we can help you.

Thanks,
Joe D.

What problem did Disallow: /nofollow/ cause?