I have a menu at the top of the page where one of the links needs to be written a certain way ("Do It Yourself") for a human to understand and not look spammy but this is not a keyword friendly link. So can/should I nofollow that link and then add a keyword, spider friendly link in the footer menu? As long as I'm on the subject how do you feel about nofollowing your privacy policy and contact us pages if they appear on every page and just allowing a link to them from your site map. I was thinking this may save some weight. I've searched all over here and found plenty of information on the nofollow tag but nothing that seems to truly answer my questions. ~Thanks
No follow link is only applies on the passing of PR. Still the bots will follow the links to crawl the site.
See that's where I'm getting confused. Let's take PR out of the mix and just consider weight and Keywords. With my menu example the keywords getting the link are "Do It Yourself" instead of "Buy Blue Widget" which is what I want that page to rank for in the SE's. I want the page spidered just not for those keywords so my thinking is using the nofollow to force the SE's to index the link in the footer menu that says "Buy Blue Widget" and just ignore the "Do it yourself" Link
Look at this way. Your link with/without no-follow tag will be considered as normal link because the sole purpose of no-follow tag is because of the passing of PR.
The no follow tag wasn't made exclusivley for PR passing: Matt Cutts - http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/quick-comment-on-nofollow/ or Dave Taylor - http://www.askdavetaylor.com/google_yahoo_and_msn_support_nofollow_whats_that.html What I'm asking is on my site can I not "Vouch" for 1 link in favor of another so I can get a better keyword link. I know this also isn't the reason for using nofollow just want to know if it will work.
I disagree that no follow tag isn't made for passing of PR. Matt just mentioned about some samples on how passing of PR is being abused such as (blog comment spamming) You might have missed this post by Matt Cutts http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/text-links-and-pagerank/
I've seen the article and these lines are what I care about So taking that into account no matter how you word it "vouch", "editorial vote" or whatever ... The question still stands, Can I get the SE's to skip the first link and not index the page off of that link and get it to wait and index the Key Word link at the bottom of the page? P.S. I'm not saying it doesn't stop the passing of PR just that's not all it does.
homelandstupidity.us/2005/05/23/nofollow-revisited If the link is there, it will get spidered, so I think the answer to your question is no, you cannot get the SE's to skip the first link and not index it off of that link.
even if bots still crawl a nofollow link, I think using it on privacy policy or contact us pages is a good idea. Those pages may still get indexed but you are preserving the PR of the page and not passing it on to pages that do not need it. If you don't want them indexed use a noindex tag in your robots meta tag. Or place them in a separate folder and disallow the bots with robots.txt file As for your "do it yourself" link. don't worry about using a nofollow. and still use a keyword link elsewhere on the page. A few non-keyword links here and there looks more natural.
I'd say don't use the no-follow tag and just have the keyword link if you feel it will help your websites performance (not just in the SERPs). I'm sure that the no-follow tag is useful but I have no need to use one, and anything I link too I'm not afraid of the SE's seeing it
ya for example if u simple submit few articles to digg your site will be indexed fast bit they say sites like digg or yahoo dir dont give backlink or share PR.