Use "nofollow" for internal linking

Will it affect the nofollow-tagged pages ranking?

[lakr]

Dear all,

I intend to use "nofollow" tag for my subdomains when link to the main domain pages, before I do that, I want to ask you, gurus:

Will the tags will harm the main home and other internal pages ranking?

On my subdomain: [test.example.com,...] I use:

<a href="http://www.example.com/" rel="nofollow" >Home</a>
<a href="http://www.example.com/abc/" rel="nofollow" >ABC</a>

Thank you very much.

Lakr

[tedster]

Yes, it can "harm" the main page -- you're telling Google that you don't trust the target page and they shouldn't send it any PageRank through that link. Plus, there's some suspicion that using nofollow internally may cause you to get a penalty for trying to manipulate PR. I haven't seen this myself, but I have read others who say it happened to them.

This kind of use is not the reason the attribute value was created. Why do you want to use nofollow in this way? There may be a safer way to achieve the same result.

[lakr]

Thank you Tedster for your great advice

Why do you want to use nofollow in this way?

i do not want Google think that: I am creating many subdomains then interlinking between them to get high ranking and PR or try to Spam their index.

There may be a safer way to achieve the same result.

May you please tell me more about it?

Thank you,

Lakr

[Marcia]

This kind of use is not the reason the attribute value was created. Why do you want to use nofollow in this way?

I want to use nofollow that way to manipulate the PageRank in the site. ;)

Here's why. A site with few links only has so much PR, not enough to support many pages being in the main index. So if there are 20 pages on a site with PR3 and 15 are them are Supplemental (no PR) and 5 are in the primary index with PR3, why should important pages that visitors would be interested in be Supplemental, and an "information" page with nothing more than "about us" and privacy policy have PR and be in the main index?

That will not enhance the user experience, it simply makes sense to route the PR to pages that will benefit users.

[lohia anirudh]

You must inter link your pages in a smarter way. If you place internal links where it is necessary, It will not be counted as spam by google.

If you use no follow tags then your target page will not get any link juice from your internal pages.

Feel free to ask if you have more confusion.

[lakr]

Thank you all,

You must inter link your pages in a smarter way. If you place internal links where it is necessary, It will not be counted as spam by google.

You know: I am USING subdomains: it may have the some same pages with the main index such as: "about us", contact us, privacy,and more important is it has a link to the homepage.

Smarter way?

Is there any better way to deal with it without using nofollow tag?

Thanks,

Lakr

[lohia anirudh]

I think it will be better if you can place the link to your home page somewhere within the template. Google will not consider that as spam. Its just that it will not give that link the same value as it gives to a link from the body section.

[tedster]

That's the approach I'm using, both on some small sites and also some bigger clients. No trouble from it at all -- Google does figure out what's in the template and they handle it appropriately.

[lakr]

Great post, Guys.

I think it will be better if you can place the link to your home page somewhere within the template.

Do you mean put them on the Navigation not the body text?

I just want to clarify everything before I got it done.

Lakr

[lohia anirudh]

Do you mean put them on the Navigation not the body text?

Yes, thats what we mean

[lakr]

Thank you, Lohia, you and other guys here are so Great. Yep, I do not mean to put them on my body text. Just on the navigation.

I think the problems have been solved, and fortunately I have your help before doing anything.

Best wishes,

Lakr

[fishfinger]

If you want to hide a link use Javascript document.write to import it from an external file and block that with robots.txt

Or you can use a form.

Or you can use an image with Window.Open command in the img tag.

I have a permanent test 'links' set up like this to pages optimised for unique phrases - none of the 3 are in Google.