Lots of links from a Wiki pointing at main site

[Andrew_Birkitt]

Hi everyone

This may seem a bit obvious but I am getting conflicting answers on this, we have a client that has a wiki that is basically an online manual of their software.

They do it like this because the manual is so big and is constantly developing, there are thousands of pages with loads of links that are pointing to various sections of relevance on the main site as well, the majority of these are No Follow but I have noticed that they have a single link on the navigation that is a direct link to their main site that is a follow link, obviously this is a sitewide.

Would this be seen as being detrimental to the main site, should I have this set as No Follow as well.

Thanks in Advance

[Andrew_Birkitt]

Hi Andy

This is why I have asked the question as the wiki is on its own domain so these aren't internal links.

Andrew

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Hi Andrew,

First of all, I would not be no-following any internal site links. This is not a recommended practice for any website - even Google says don't do this. By setting links as nofollow, you are stopping Google from crawling links that could be adding benefit to other internal pages.

There are occasionally reasons why you might not want something no-followed, but links from help / wiki pages to other internal pages isn't one of them.

I would be looking to undo this on their site as soon as you are able.

-Andy