Site wide links from another domain - could these cause a problem?

[KateWaite]

Hi

I manage the SEO in house for the site http://www.naturalworldsafaris.com/

A new add on to our services has been launched in the form of an online store allowing us to sell, for example, expedition clothing that is relevant to the trips we offer. The store is managed elsewhere and sits on a subdomain of the company who are providing this service for us.

There are sitewide links throughout this site back to our homepage: http://naturalworld.newheadings.com/index.php

I'm just a bit concerned about these links from an SEO perspective and was wondering if we should request these are set up as no follow. Would appreciate any thoughts on this.

Thanks!

[Antony_Towle]

I hope you found the answer you were looking for Kate, Good luck!

Any chance any of you reading this would take a look and give some advice on my very similar situation?

http://moz.com/community/q/site-wide-footer-links-exception-any-advice

[ShaMenz]

Hi Kate,

Good call

The nofollow tag will eliminate any unnatural linking issue and in your case the potential to bring qualified traffic to your site by far outweighs any value the links would ever bring in terms of visibility.

Sha

[KateWaite]

Thanks everyone. I thought that was the case but it's always good to get a second opinion!

[MickEdwards]

yes agree - set as no-follow.

[SilverDoor]

Hi,

In short yes.

No-follow links should always be used on any form of advertising across the web. Especially when they are sitewide.

Google have a page set-up specifically for this question

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/96569?hl=en

You will want to implement this as soon as possible to prevent any negative impact on your website.

Good luck.

[GPainter]

You're correct the best practice is to no-follow site wide links this was you can still be found but without any trouble. You can always request to leave the homepage link as follow so you still maintain the best link juice.  even if we ignore the penalty aspect it really just dilutes the links you have which isn't helping you either.

Good luck.