NoFollow use for Anchor Links

Hi All,

I have a couple of pages that have the classic "Back to top" anchor links.

I was wondering if using "nofollow" on these would be useful as, it is anchor text that isn't relevant.

I'm thinking about using it, as I believe it would give more value to the normal links on the page as they will have the desired anchor text and the link value passed.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

 

I wouldn't say that the back to the top links will be "leaking" so I wouldn't bother with it as the link isn't leaving your URL and I would assume that SE bot's are clever enough to realise that it's an internal anchor link fromthe formatting (based on the fact these links do not show up in internal link checks using google, yahoo site explorer etc).

 

Do follow link just used to stop th flow of PR. It does not mean do follow links are less important. Do follow link does not have any special relation with anchor text. Both do follow and no follow links response same to anchor text. Just only difference to control the flow of PR. Now depend upon you what u wanna do?

 

Thanks KevMuk and Schgrv.

I should have meant to describe it as I don't want page rank leaking out to unnecessary links such as these.

KevMuk came up with a good point that the HTML of the link itself is noticably different, so it should get picked up as not being a "vote" for another page.

 

nofollow is a tag to tell the google crawler not to use/crawl the link. I would say yes add a nofollow tag. Make it as easy as possible for the bots to crawl your site and nofollow is a great way to do this. It won't have much effect tho

 

Did any body feel like mentioning that inter-web page link tabs don't effect Pagerank at all?

 

It does increase your serps which is a thousand times more important factor then a pagerank

 

I would use no follow when i have term i do not want for page

 

people are putting way too much focus on no follow

it wont leak page rank if its pointing to your own domain

 

It's not just about your pagerank it's about tuning your site to the fullest. In seo everything can make a change. And what's the effort adding no follow tags?

 

It not a problem, but if you are paranoid use Javascript:

If you are super paranoid about "Back to Top" text being non relevant use:

Make your back to top a small image/button, it's pretty much invisible to search engines and there's no need to make fragment identifiers such as Domain.com/page.html#top