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Old August 28th, 2008, 08:55 AM
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Why would people put this on internal links?
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Old August 28th, 2008, 09:09 AM
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Some people do not want certain pages of their site indexed, such as "privacy policy" or "returns policy". They think nofollowing these will conserve spider activity to other parts of the site, plus keep those useless pages from being sinks for pagerank.
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Old August 28th, 2008, 09:26 AM
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I was looking at Stickyeyes site and I noticed some links that had nofollow that seems a little strange. They seem like main content
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Download pages are another reason to use no follow
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Old August 28th, 2008, 03:36 PM
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Using the nofollow attribute on internal links
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Why would people put this on internal links?


Reasons for using the nofollow attribute on internal links include:
  • To avoid unimportant pages, such as the contact page, the privacy policy, the terms and conditions, etc, receiving a lot of link love (PR and ranking power).
  • To enhance the search-engine results position of their homepage by creating two sidewide links to the homepage; the link with "Home" as the anchor text is nofollowed, while the other link is followed and has the keyphrase you want to rank your homepage for in the anchor text.
  • To keep webpages that are not related to a theme from receiving a lot of link love (PR and ranking power), thus strengthening the theme.
  • To control the flow of PR and put more emphasis on the important pages than on the less important pages.
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Well “nofollow” tags are used on internal pages whem a person does not want to get it indexed or carry Page Rank. Most of these pages have little chance of bringing visitors in through searches. These pages may include:




Privacy policy

Terms and conditions

Application pages for stores, booking engines, job boards…

Refer-a-friend and contact forms

Use the “nofollow” tag when you have duplicate links on a page.




Sometimes you could use the “nofollow” tag on inner pages just to restrict that page to get maximum authority as compared to other pages of that website.
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Download pages are another reason to use no follow

can you explain this?
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can you explain this?
sometimes you do not want your pdf documents or software or whatever indexed, maybe that is why they are pdf or whatever in the first place?
Anyway, the point is use nofollow when you do not want spiders to crawl (or use robots.txt) and as very eloquently already answered for shaping, flow other watest like contact pages etc.
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Reasons for using the nofollow attribute on internal links include:
  • To avoid unimportant pages, such as the contact page, the privacy policy, the terms and conditions, etc, receiving a lot of link love (PR and ranking power).
  • To enhance the search-engine results position of their homepage by creating two sidewide links to the homepage; the link with "Home" as the anchor text is nofollowed, while the other link is followed and has the keyphrase you want to rank your homepage for in the anchor text.
  • To keep webpages that are not related to a theme from receiving a lot of link love (PR and ranking power), thus strengthening the theme.
  • To control the flow of PR and put more emphasis on the important pages than on the less important pages.
Good explanation.
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