I have two simple short questions. 1. I "think" I "don't" want Google PageRank to transfer to the following pages. 1. Privacy Policy 2. Terms Of Use 3. Contact Us Should I use the //<meta name="robots" content="nofollow" />// on each of these pages, or don't cause it don't matter or might hurt my site? My second question is. I have an article from my website that I submit to propeller because propeller uses snippets of my article linking back to my site for the rest. I want to know if I submit the same article to sites like mixx, digg, yahoo news and so on that use "ONLY" snippets of my article linking back to my site as the source for the rest, would I get any kind of penitently from Google? I also don't want to take the time to submit to these other sites if Google is just going to not count the other ones. These sites pull some of the article into there site as a preview and if I change that preview it might help Google keep these links if that's what they actually look at. Thanks for your time, and any help you can provide me,
I think, you should put content='noindex' in meta description of Privacy Policy page, and also rel='nofollow' in any link leading to this page. However I prefer to have all my pages indexed.
Nofollow to any page you don't care if someone finds in google. Conserve the PR flow on your website to pages you want people to find in google. This is a method of telling google what pages are most important on your website, and has been discussed as being a legitimate tactic condoned by google. If you are worried about a google penalty on articles, what you should first do is post the article on your website. Next, you should verify that google actually indexed the article. Once the article is safely in the index, google knows you are the original source of that article. If you then proceed to post the article on article publishing websites, they will all be indexed at a later date (you will still have original posting). I usually wait 1 week after article is indexed before I submit. It is worthwhile to submit articles to article sites, assuming that you have a link to your main site. Many other websites republish these articles, and they all contain a link back to your website. It is a very solid method to use for SEO and works well to build pagerank as well as getting targeted anchor text pointing to your site.
What do you mean, you don't want pagerank to transfer? Pagerank is pagerank, not siterank. You build links for pages you want to show up, that's it.
I agree that you should add nofollow to links pointing to those pages. I don't know if you need to go so far as to tell Google not to index those pages. Just tell them not to send pagerank to those pages.
You should use robots "noindex, nofollow" on pages that you don't want in Google's index. This will effectively stop PR from transferring since the page isn't indexed. Or you could change any link to those pages to contain a rel="nofollow" and accomplish the same thing.
The thing is if you put noindex, you might be conserving a bit PR because it flows to less post, but the thing is that it won't show in the search engines which some might want to have.
I would use those pages to link to other internal pages. If it gets page rank then it would push more rank to your other pages!