It's totally cool that you guys say it's not necessary or even important at all... other people say it is... again, that's why I started this thread... I know that there will be people who agree and disagree. Thank you for the tips about robots.txt and noindex ... much appreciated! Dan
It's interesting none the less. I think ya would need a super computer to understand all the pagerank flow through the site thou! I'll just throw the sponge in water and hope it doesn't go everywhere else?
What if you have a forum on your website and people's signatures link to other sites. Will the main site be penalized for too many outgoing links or will just the forum be affected?
Hello longcall911 i am using nofollow to some outgoing links in my website.Are you suggesting that i should remove that and make dofollow ?
These are all great questions! Why would spammers love the "nofollow" ... if a spammer replies to a blot or post wouldn't the spammer want the link juice distribution to whatever site they linked in his/her reply? Am I misreading your thoughts?? I'm using no follow to some of the links in my site to... like "contact us" and "terms" and "privacy" links... I'm sure that google will go crawl those links anyways... but I'd like them to not get distracted in anyway while crawling my home page or other important pages. If any one knows how/why it would benefit my site to remove the "nofollow" to those pages... please let me know! Have great day everyone! Dan P.s. I love that you can stick your google adsense code in the forum posts... that's freakin awesome!!!
Link sculpting is ignored by Google now. They know an internal link regardless of the rel=nofollow attribute. If you really want your homepage to be your top page, then get backlinks to it.
I really don't think this is worth wasting your time on. Just get a few backlinks to your home page and you will be much better off. The backlinks should provide you with more PR, more traffic, and better results.
Great... thanks dbihosting... I knew that backlinks are important... I'll work on that more. And thanks for everyones input too! Much appreciated!
No, I am not saying that. I am saying that the OP is completely wrong. As others have stated, rel=nofollow tells G that you are not 'endorsing' the target page and therefore PR will not transfer. It is intended as a way to prove to G that you are not selling PR and has nothing to do with indexing. If you link to a known quality site like wikipedia (for example) then there is no reason to use 'nofollow'. If you link to a site that seems a bit spammy, I would nofollow that link to prove I am not selling my site's PR to a site that appears to be out there 'buying' PR. /*tom*/
I have read differently on the rel=nofollow subject... and if that information is incorrect... (that it stops google from leaving your page and continuing to crawl your page uninterupted.) At least I learned (from this thread) new information.... """No, I am not saying that. I am saying that the OP is completely wrong. As others have stated, rel=nofollow tells G that you are not 'endorsing' the target page and therefore PR will not transfer. It is intended as a way to prove to G that you are not selling PR and has nothing to do with indexing."""
You kidding right? Seriously ... Thats the big secret? SEEECRET like what since early stones ages of Page Rank ... ** nods his head** Should change the title to "GOOGLE PR 101"
sorry, but as many said before, it's the most USELESS trick for ages. Remember, google and other search engines look for natural behaviour as well, and putting some of the pages on your own site 'nofollow' doesn't really look natural.
mackdesi ... at least longcall911 gave explaination of what he knows... you just typed in to "dawg on it". Real professional there bud.
If my thread was just advertising... I'm sure it would have been recognized at just that and deleted by admin. So we have another who only puts up a 5 word post with no input of the subject... just to get his "advertisment signature" in the forum. Humm... I think I'll run right over to your wonderking hacks and best gaming forum links... and then sign up to klk hosting too! Who's doing the advertising here??
This is what I read about the rel="nofollow" .... Maybe I misquoted or mis-described it in my initial post... but here is the page that describes: (this is NOT my site): the full article is here: site-reference.com/articles/General/-1-Secret-to-Maximum-Google-Love.html You'll want to finish off by using the rel="nofollow" tag to complete your internal link structure optimization. The nofollow tag allows you to control the flow of link juice throughout your website and direct it to the more important pages. Use the nofollow tag on links that point to the "About Us", "Contact Us", "Privacy Statement" pages, etc... Each of these should be assigned as nofollow links. You only want to pass PageRank to the traffic pages. Many sites have site-wide links to the "about us" page, "contact us" page, etc... This wastes your link juice and ranking power on unimportant pages so you'll want to use the rel="nofollow" tag to funnel that link juice to the more important pages. Also, keep in mind that your internal link structure will have even more impact when you have a large amount of external backlinks pointing to your website. Growing your global link popularity will allow you to then funnel even more link juice within your own website through an intelligent internal link structure. Happy Linking!!