Would it make sense to add a no-follow to About, Sign In, Join Us, Privacy, Terms of Use etc?
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Hi everyone,
In order to increase link juice for relevant interlinks, wouldn't it make sense to attribute no-follow to the following interlinks: About Us, Sign In, Join Us, Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, Security, Contact Us, Home (assuming brand name / logo also links to homepage), and any page where there are 2 or more links directing to the same page.
Thank you,
Kristian
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thank you. I appreciate this. I run a job board and I noticed the most successful job search engine - indeed.com - no follow page numbers. Example: if run a search for "Los Angeles" jobs you get thousands of hits and at the bottom of each page the page numbers you can jump between (1,2 3, next, etc) are all set as no-follow. They have also set Sign In as no follow. I see careerbuilder also has a few no-follows. This does not mean they are right, but it is interesting for me to observe, since these are the heavyweights in my industry. I run this site by the way www.hawaiijobengine.com
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thank you. I appreciate this. I run a job board and I noticed the most successful job search engine - indeed.com - no follow page numbers. Example: if run a search for "Los Angeles" jobs you get thousands of hits and at the bottom of each page the page numbers you can jump between (1,2 3, next, etc) are all set as no-follow. They have also set Sign In as no follow. I see careerbuilder also has a few no-follows. This does not mean they are right, but it is interesting for me to observe, since these are the heavyweights in my industry. I run this site by the way www.hawaiijobengine.com
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First, you cannot prevent link juice from being distributed or spent by nofollowing a link. The link juice still flows, it just doesn't go anywhere ..it just evaporates.
Second, nofollow is like saying you don't trust this page or you can't vouch for it. Why would you tell Google that you don't trust your own pages ? For that reason, I never use nofollow on internal links.
Third, I don't think you even need to worry about those pages getting juice. It's natural. It might be even a quality signal in Google's algos if they can see that you have a contact page, or privacy policy, or details like an address or telephone number on the about page. Bad sites tend to not have those things.
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It is not recommended to add the no follow attribute on those pages because it might be treated as scupting and harm the site. Typically only have pages behind an admin login not indexed using the "no follow" for obvious reasons. (you dont want those URL's Indexed by google and the info pubicly available without logging in.
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