cabowabo
msg:3789239 | 11:16 pm on Nov 18, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Personally, I don't use the nofollow attribute much, and for my privacy policy, terms of use, etc. I exclude them from being indexed via the meta robots tag. I have never seen any ill effects doing so.
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RossWal
msg:3790065 | 12:03 am on Nov 20, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Hi Cabo - The problem there, as I see it, is that the 'no index' pages will accumulate PR. Not a big deal I guess, but I'd rather avoid the 'wasted' juice.
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buckworks
msg:3790173 | 3:52 am on Nov 20, 2008 (gmt 0) |
PR that flows to your privacy page is only wasted if that page is a dead end with no links. Give thought to what your privacy page and similar "housekeeping" pages link to. Careful link planning can funnel a bit extra PR to selected pages within your site or even across sites.
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Quadrille
msg:3790234 | 5:40 am on Nov 20, 2008 (gmt 0) |
There is no reason TO apply nofollow in this way.
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pageoneresults
msg:3790286 | 7:26 am on Nov 20, 2008 (gmt 0) |
| The problem there, as I see it, is that the 'no index' pages will accumulate PR. |
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I keep seeing this statement being made and every time I have to check various pages to verify that it is not true. The pages I have with noindex on them do not have PR, the bar is gray and as far as I can remember, always has been.
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conor
msg:3790381 | 11:49 am on Nov 20, 2008 (gmt 0) |
I see the same as pageone. No indexed pages do not accumilate PR
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cabowabo
msg:3790524 | 3:28 pm on Nov 20, 2008 (gmt 0) |
A follow-up question would be while the pages themselves do not have PR, if a page attempts to send PR to the Privacy page, do you then have "PageRank Wastefulness"?!?! Or is Google wise enough to recalculate PR distribution to the links to live pages?
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RossWal
msg:3791687 | 11:03 pm on Nov 21, 2008 (gmt 0) |
The problem there, as I see it, is that the 'no index' pages will accumulate PR.
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I based that comment on this (hope posting this is OK - I won't link -- it should be easy to find). I don't know exactly what to make of it. | Eric Enge: Can a NoIndex page accumulate PageRank? Matt Cutts: A NoIndex page can accumulate PageRank, because the links are still followed outwards from a NoIndex page. Eric Enge: So, it can accumulate and pass PageRank. Matt Cutts: Right, and it will still accumulate PageRank, but it won't be showing in our Index. So, I wouldn't make a NoIndex page that itself is a dead end. You can make a NoIndex page that has links to lots of other pages. |
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pageoneresults
msg:3792037 | 1:14 pm on Nov 22, 2008 (gmt 0) |
| Matt Cutts: Right, and it will still accumulate PageRank, but it won't be showing in our Index. |
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Hmmm, I just went and double, triple checked my implementation of noindex and not a single one of them have visible PR, it is all gray as intended. I guess if Matt Cutts says it is so, it must be so. I need to see a page with noindex that has PR. And one that has had the noindex for more than a few months.
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Quadrille
msg:3792084 | 3:19 pm on Nov 22, 2008 (gmt 0) |
There's a few 'ifs and buts' in the interview [stonetemple.com].
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