footer links

[trebor8]

Hi all

should footer links, namely the..About us, legal stuff etc, be no-follow?

 

[OldWelshGuy]

, why should they? Adding nofollow to these will help you how exactly?

 

[CompitSystems]

Its not a good idea to make " about us" page No Follow, however its always a good idea to enable No Follow for pages such as leagl stuff, privacy policy etc as there is no use in throwing those to search engines,,!! its better not to index them.

 

[Curious]

But nofollow won't stop the search engines finding the pages though. All you're going to do is stop passing PR to those pages, which in turn means they can't pass any on to any pages they link to.

Nofollowing pages like that doesn't work like it used to, you won't conserve page rank, it will just disappear effectively. So I wouldn't bother if I were you!

 

[fisicx]

Yup, I want the SE to follow everything all the way round and around. There may be some little snippet of text on the 'about us' page that the SE really likes and would rank you on page one for. This may have brought in a highly motivated visitor who set up a huge contact with you. Except it won't happen because you have made the links no-follow...

 

[Annoying Donkey]

No follow doesn't prevent the page from being indexed.
It doesn't even prevent the flow of PR, just reduces it.

 

[sijugk]

Hi all

should footer links, namely the..About us, legal stuff etc, be no-follow?

I do not think we need to add nofollow tag to links which pointing pages of the same website. It is always appreciated to have a well structured internal link scheme for your website and the PR should flow freely between inner pages of your website.

If I am in your position, I will never add nofollow to links to inner pages of my website.

 

[fisicx]

No follow doesn't prevent the page from being indexed.
It doesn't even prevent the flow of PR, just reduces it.

Are you sure about this? There have been innumerable tests and that show that PR is not passed (becuase the links are not followed) and the non-followed page won't appear in the index unless there is a do-follow link from some other source such as a sitemap.

 

[Promotionalgifts]

Nofollow to About Us, Contact Us etc. is better, but this not help too much, built more links on the internet is the best way : )

 

[crossdaz]

Hi all

should footer links, namely the..About us, legal stuff etc, be no-follow?

What you're talking about is page rank sculpting and it isn't beneficial in any way.

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/

 

[MASSEY]

My opinion has always been that no following does Not conserve the page rank.

 

[thetime22]

Make it DoFOllow...