mailto links and nofollow?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Kirkbride, May 30, 2010.

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    Does anyone know if there's any point to making mailto links nofollow?

    I was just going through a site making a few links to insignificant pages nofollow and wondered if I should do the same for some email links. I would assume search engines wouldn't bother to "count" the mailto links, but I'm not sure.

    I can't seem to find anything about this here or elsewhere online. Maybe it's just a stupid question. :\
     
    Kirkbride, May 30, 2010 IP
  2. digital29

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    I think search engines count them too...
    The more links you have on a page, the less value they have....so it would be a good reason to nofollow the mailto links...so you will have more value on the others
     
    digital29, May 30, 2010 IP
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    yup. and in my opinion mailto link is just a dead link for Search engine
     
    sikatangpinoy, May 30, 2010 IP