Should I use nofollow at register and login pages? [closed]

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On my site, I have a register and login page which are frequently indexed by Google as I can see it on the Webmanager Tools page. That's disturbing, because I want the users to find other keywords and not the login or register page and/or text. My question is simple: should I use the nofollow attribute to my anchors at the header and footer of my page?

If not, why not?

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To stop them being indexed use the robots meta tag with a noindex.

Nofollow on links to it will help the spiders avoid those pages but will not stop them indexing them if they ever get there.