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    • Santaur
      Santaur last edited by

      I'm trying to do my best to control the link juice from my home page to the most important category landing pages on my client's e-commerce site. I have a couple questions regarding how to NOT pass link juice to insignificant pages and how best to pass juice to my most important pages.

      INSIGNIFICANT PAGES:

      How do you tag links to not pass juice to unimportant pages. For example, my client has a "Contact" page off of there home page. Now we aren't trying to drive traffic to the contact page, so I'm worried about the link juice from the home page being passed to it. Would you tag the Contact link with a "no follow" tag, so it doesn't pass the juice, but then include it in a sitemap so it gets indexed? Are there best practices for this sort of stuff?

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      • anthonydnelson
        anthonydnelson last edited by

        Here is my simplistic take:

        1. Create a logical site hierarchy that works for UX. Don't worry about link juice to pages like the contact page.
        2. Focus on linking to your most important (high ranking, high converting, revenue earning) pages from the home page and other high level pages.
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        • ChadBreezy
          ChadBreezy last edited by

          To add on here, creating authority to your website comes from siloing your website. Meaning your keyword research and knowledge on certain subjects will guide you in setting up many pages in your "site" that can help in passing link juice to your most top-seeded-keyword-directories. As a result, the deeper you have pages that cover specific content of a certain category, the better your authority and page rank juice will develop. So worrying about your contact page should not be a huge concern.

          You absolutely do not want to no follow any of your own pages.

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          • TakeshiYoung
            TakeshiYoung last edited by

            First of all, nofollowing your links will not prevent you from losing link juice. In general, you do not ever want to nofollow your own pages.

            If you really want to prevent link juice from going to your Contact page, you could use Javascript instead of an HTML link. However, this will break if the user does not have Javascript enabled.

            In the big scheme of things, it is probably not worth your time worrying about linking to your Contact page. Link juice that goes to your Contact page is not lost, since the Contact page itself also links to your homepages and other pages, and thus keeps the link equity flowing.

            As far as site architecture goes, just link prominently to your most important pages and less prominently to your secondary ones. Then focus your efforts on acquiring more links, because that will have more impact than fiddling with some links on your page.

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