nofollow to named link

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by zodiakasxxx, Jan 11, 2010.

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    When I use link to comments section with name (link looks like www.domain/cat/post.html#comments). Should I use nofollow if just left to this link there is another, without #comments part?
     
    zodiakasxxx, Jan 11, 2010 IP
  2. zodiakasxxx

    zodiakasxxx Peon

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    So, any SEO experts in this forum?
     
    zodiakasxxx, Jan 11, 2010 IP
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    I would have to say yes, put a nofollow on it. But are these 2 links on the same page, with different anchor texts?
     
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    Canonical Well-Known Member

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    www.domain/cat/post.html#comments and www.domain/cat/post.html are considered by Google to BOTH point to the same page... www.domain/cat/post.html. Google ignores everything after the hash ('#') because they are used to point to named anchors on that page NOT to point to a new page.

    Nofollowing internal links are worthless. I would leave it a followed link. It's the actual comments themselves that point to OTHER sites owned by the people commenting that you want to NOFOLLOW. If you don't and someone drops a link to a "bad neighborhood" site as part of a comment and they get caught for violating Google's webmaster guidelines then YOUR site can be penalized as well for promoting a "bad neighborhood" site.
     
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    I will filter comments for "bad words" and if I'll find something spammy, I'll delete these comments and ban their authors via IP's.
     
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    Ptutting a nofollow on the name could prevent the link juice to pass to other site which is good for your site.
     
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    You should not use nofollow in that as it is going to point your own page. If you are pointing to any external page or a page that you don't want to prefer should be putted in nofollow.
     
    ajaygolani, Jan 11, 2010 IP