I have seen many do this however aviva and alive both do not. Is there some particular reason to use nofollow on the "submit link" button?
I think that it's just a personal preference thing. I know I dont. In fact, I was surprised a few days ago when I was analyzing directorydump and came across this finding: http://www.directorydump.com/internet/directories/?s=P http://www.directorydump.com/internet/directories/?s=H http://www.directorydump.com/internet/directories/?s=A My sorting options have PR1 on them hehe Hey, I say the more PR to pass the merrier.
Im just thinking, i cant really see any reason why this would be done either? Any one else know the answer? Again like An0n, i dont do this either. Untill this thread i didnt know any one did it.
I personally both nofollow the submit and the sorting links as well as disallow them in my robots.txt . The reason is simple, each website has a set amount of PR that comes exclusively from it's link popularity. By creating a large number of pages that are near duplicate you are not actually helping the link popularity flow but you are diluting it. In addition to that by creating a large number of near duplicate pages you are at risk of hitting a duplicate filter and then welcome to supplemental hell. At least that is my opinion. Edit to add a relevant link
Absolutely. So Anon having PR1 on the sortings is not a good thing, no offense to Anon. BTW an easy fix if you're SEO'd is robots.txt User-agent: * Disallow: /*? Code (markup): As far as nofollowing the submit pages which should NOT be duplicate content ( unlike the sortings) they're just being PR whores and micromanaging every ounce of PR to categories where they turn PR into $. Hope that helps
Well, one thing that is important to nofollow and restrict in robots.txt is web components where the Search Engine could alter the results. For example, if you had a Rating area, with 5 links (Rate 1 star link, Rate 2 star link, etc...). If search engines would hit all these, then your ratings would always even out to 3 because they would hit each page.
hahaha i actually just implemented this on my save favorite listings MOD last night because the fricken SE's were saving listings. /save.php?f=549 Http Code: 200 Date: Mar 21 13:54:24 Http Version: HTTP/1.0 Size in Bytes: 9133 Referer: - Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp) just lovely hahaha
I use nofollow when I do not want to pass vote (PR) to those links. To make search engine do not index page some of my page, I use robots.txt and noindex, noarchive meta tags.