Are there any reasons to nofollow links in your own domain?

I saw some sites doing that and am just wondering why. Mind you that those links are not affiliate links. Any ideas?

 

well you put nofollow links on your domain for many reasons if you don't want to link.

if you have too many links you can lose some of your PR or ranking by linking to low PR sites

you can get penalized by linking to "bad" sites

an actual dofollow link, acquires great value for anyone willing to have one on your site.

some more ideas?

 

I think there is something to hide from google or some script pages without content like a tool which redirecting the url etc contains nofollow. I also saw in many places even not an affiliate link

 

Some pages you dont want appearing in search engine indexes (such as your thankyou page, members only pages etc).

Other times, you may want to control the flow of PR from one page to another. This is known as PageRank Sculpting, whereby you restrict PR flowing to pages so that more PR value flows to the pages which are not 'nofollow'.

Hope this helps.

 

Exactly. If I have an "sign in" link on every page of my site, why would I want to flow PR to it? I'd rather save the juice for my pages with good content. I nofollow that URL in my template and it gives the rest of the pages on the site a boost.

 

adam, it's the first time i heard of pagerank sculpting, and i think you're quite right. thanks

 

Good point. Never really thought of that before

 

It's because, basically this is to avoid PR drain from your own site.

 

If I link to 6 pages on my own site they each get PR/6, if I nofollow the link to the contact page the other 5 pages get PR/5.

You focus the PR on the good pages by nofollowing links to bad pages.

 

Hi Friends,

In my opinion we should put no follow link in our domain for many reasons like

1. Traffic Diversion.
2. Too many links on a page
3. Google may penalize your site by linking to "bad" neighborhood sites

Regards

Sarah

 

I agree with Sarahsienna, putting nofollow link on domain for many reasons.

 

I use the no follow page for most/all outgoing links on most of my sites, I have also started using no follow links to pages i dont want to appear such as the thank you page, login page, terms and conditions, etc....

 

Most of the people who do it are trying to sculpt their PageRank, which Matt Cutts has already confirmed is an exercise in futility.

Now, that being said, there are certain pages you do not want a search engine to go sticking its nose into. This is especially true of e-commerce sites and forums. Any section of the site that requires a login for instance should have the login page blocked by the search engines. This not only includes private access forums and shopping carts, but also other premium "members only" content areas that are accessible only to paying members, as well as client sections on services sites.