BenFox
msg:4278933 | 4:49 pm on Mar 9, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Search engines don't totally ignore links with a nofollow - they still crawl them, they know they're there and they still affect PR calculations.
Why are all those links on one page anyway?
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Planet13
msg:4279015 | 6:37 pm on Mar 9, 2011 (gmt 0) |
| If rel_nofollow" causes search engine to ignore a link, does it matter how many outbound links are included on a page? |
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100% of wikipedia's outbound links are nofollow, so if the question is whether too many outbound links with nofollow attribute is harmful, I don't think that it is.
and I apologize in advance if that was not your question.
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Novus
msg:4279595 | 2:22 pm on Mar 10, 2011 (gmt 0) |
| Why are all those links on one page anyway? |
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The company I work for purchased the this site a couple of years ago, way before my time. It wasnt built "professionally" it was a fan built site. I've only now, had the time to look at it. Hence im finding issues.
In all honesty it is ranking extremely well so im a little hesitant to alter things too dramticly. Im just not happy with this links page.
I guess I should heed the old adage "if its not broke dont fix it"
| 100% of wikipedia's outbound links are nofollow, so if the question is whether too many outbound links with nofollow attribute is harmful, I don't think that it is. |
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I pretty much agree, I just wonder if there are any effect of nofollowing 200+ links all of a sudden?
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SEO_NeT
msg:4279737 | 5:27 pm on Mar 10, 2011 (gmt 0) |
If it ranks well and you are happy with the rankings, I would not change anything
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Trisha
msg:4281265 | 6:09 am on Mar 14, 2011 (gmt 0) |
I thought the rule of thumb was that you shouldn't have more than 100 outbound links per page - has that changed? I've been away for a while.
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Novus
msg:4281402 | 2:14 pm on Mar 14, 2011 (gmt 0) |
| I thought the rule of thumb was that you shouldn't have more than 100 outbound links per page |
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That’s the rule I’ve been adhering to since... forever, to the best of my knowledge it hasn’t changed. In my case I have just inherited a site that goes against that rule which is why I started this thread.
I have rel_nofollowed some of the less relevant links, I even found links to one of our competitors! We tend to bounce between 1st and 2nd with them for a very strong keyword.
I'll be keeping an eye on what happens.
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TheMadScientist
msg:4281432 | 3:13 pm on Mar 14, 2011 (gmt 0) |
| Search engines don't totally ignore links with a nofollow - they still crawl them, they know they're there and they still affect PR calculations. |
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That's some really bad information...
... matt cutts made it pretty clear on a video just last month - and he was talking about nofollowed wikipedia links:
[mattcutts.com...]
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Do they keep stats on rel="nofollow" links, just privately held data? I'm sure they do. Even in the video, Matt mentions that nofollowed links make up a very small percentage of all links on the web. So they watch it, and they know about it - they just don't evaluate urls based on it. Google doesn't even use nofollow links for url discovery.
[tedster] [webmasterworld.com...] |
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Google does NOT use nofollow links.
The only way a nofollow link 'counts' at all is as a link on the page to prevent PR sculpting, so if you have 10 links on a page and nofollow 5 of them, the 5 followed links do not pass extra weight. That's it. That's all. Nothing else.
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Trisha
msg:4281486 | 4:21 pm on Mar 14, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Novus - for the less relevant links, couldn't you just put them on a different page? Like at the bottom of the page put a link that says 'more information' or something like that - and put those links on that other page?
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