No Follow Internal Links
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Hi Mozzers,
I know that this has been asked a few times and answered as well, I would just like to know some more on the internal link count on a page.
I ran the SEOmoz report and many of the pages on the website have more than 150+ internal links. Now, should I use the rel=nofollow tag on some pages that I feel are not important?
I have a list of pages which are not important from the SEO point of view, but from the usability factors they need to be there so I cannot remove the links to them. So, would be OK to place the rel=nofollow tag on them. My whole purpose is to reduce the count of internal links on the page as seen by SE's. Now, some say that the rel=nofollow tag does not lower the link count, but it can definitely (I believe) prevent the bots time in getting to those pages, which SEOmoz report also quotes.
(__When search engine spiders crawl the Internet they are limited by technology resources and are only able to crawl a certain number of links per webpage. )
So, probably I can save their time. Does anyone have any views on this,
Cheers,
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Thanks Maximise!
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Thanks Alan for the reply. Though, I had read this over a few posts I just wanted to confirm whether I should be sending the email out to dev to block these URLs, but I wont now since this may not actually get the count down.
I had rather see which I can remove from the page.
Cheers,
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Agreed 100%, don't nofollow internal links, let your PR flow normally.
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i dont think it will help, and it has a side affect, you will loose PageRank, your PR is split between all the links on your page, if you no-follow the links will still use there share of PR, but it will not be passed to the linked page, it will just be wasted.
as for redusing the link count, i dont think so, this is what bing says on the subject and it reads to me as if it the number of links, not the fact that they are follow or no follow
http://thatsit.com.au/seo/reports/violation/the-page-contains-too-many-hyperlinks
also somthing on page rank and links
http://thatsit.com.au/seo/tutorials/a-simple-explanation-of-pagerank
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