Hi! Is there still working methods to stop bots from following links? 1) Google is getting better at following javascript links, 2) Matt Cutts explains that using rel=nofollow internally is crap as 1/2 of the link juice previously passed would vaporize (thus being a horrible alternative). 3) Usage of flash would exclude visitors which does not support it. I am SEOing a company website that has a lot of links on their frontpage to blogroll, customers, yatta yatta. I evaluates these links as unimportant to get link equity from the frontpage, but still good for visitors to have easy access to. So I don't want to delete them, just make googlebot not follow them. Thanks in advance!
Matt Cutts - "So what happens when you have a page with “ten PageRank points†and ten outgoing links, and five of those links are nofollowed? Let’s leave aside the decay factor to focus on the core part of the question. Originally, the five links without nofollow would have flowed two points of PageRank each (in essence, the nofollowed links didn’t count toward the denominator when dividing PageRank by the outdegree of the page). More than a year ago, Google changed how the PageRank flows so that the five links without nofollow would flow one point of PageRank each." http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/ With that said, is it really wise to use nofollow internally? Or am I misinterpreting Matt Cutts statement?
HI, It really depend on you if no follow or do follow site your going to us...even i couldn't understand clearly what he means it....
What are you talking about???? I am talking about internal link sculpting, and what the best method is to control link flow to sub pages.
Hi tailrunner, Distributing internal link equity effectively can be very difficult, furthermore most people are doing a horrible job at it hehe. I recommend selecting the top 4-5 seod pages, which can act as global footer or header to circulate page rank. If you need to include links to questionably seod pages (pages which arn't super google friendly or have TONS of links bleeding out pagerank like a blackhole) make the link to page in question with an image, HOWEVER don't include a alt='keyword' or title='keyword' within the image tag. Google WON't follow this link! Other notes -> always have a link to your homepage on every page within the domain. The ebook and video in my signature taught me that You can randomize the achnor text by generating a random number upon every page load, and then vary the achor text between "keyword1" "keyword2" and "keyword3" as function of pageload. Hope this helps!~
Hi Joe Hansens! The problem is that this particular website already has a HUGE GLOBAL footer link block with 33 links, whereof 3 is to my actual SEO pages. the rest is like different press releases, facebook, contact, twitter page.. crap. They really want this block due to better navigation, and I feel that the best would really be to hide it from googlebot with like an on Body Load-javascript code that pasts the whole after the page has loaded. If that works. Will that work? Regarding your other note. Wouldn't a keyword random function confuse the googlebot when it compare the page with a previously cached one?? That can't be good for SEO purposes.