Few Days back I wrote an article about 4 Ways to float internal link juice, I got a comment from Kaushal Shah who is my friend and Co-founder of Internet Marketing Journal. He talks about how to save Link Juice. I thought this is good idea as well.
Just imagine you have big bowl of Juice (Your Blog) and you keep adding juice regular (keep writing blog post) but if you bowl had some leakage points then what will happen? Your juice will get leak by this way. The same scenario happens with major blogs. Their link juice is keep leakage by some or other reason and they can’t understand what’s going wrong.
Just check following points with you Blog / Site that might help you to stop link juice leakage.
- We start with Home Page. Does you HOME text is “No follow” ? Major all site is having HOME link for main / index page but really this anchor text mean any thing ? Does your site is real estate site ? No then just add nofollow tag to your HOME link.
- Like HOME major all Blog / Site is having link called “Contact”. More then 80% (aprox) Blog / Site is having Contact Form / Contact Address on this page. That’s It… Not having very important information. They why not to keep it as nofollow
- Does your blog offer RSS? Of course YES. Do you want your juice to be distributed by your RSS feeds? Of course not. I will advise you to keep it nofollow as well.
- If your blog is having some special contain and for which you have to create page/s like Disclaimer, Terms of Services, Privacy, Copyright etc. Do you think you should share your Link juice with them? You are right buddy. Just add nofollw tag to this/these page/s as well.
- If your site / blog allowing people for Signup / Register and of course login then this is one more place to save on Link Juice. Why to float link juice via this way? Then just edit this links with nofollow tag.
- Does your site / blog is having clickable Header / Logo which leads user to particular page e.g. Home Page. ? YES ………… wow you got one more area to save you Link Juice leakage. You should use nofollow tag with these images if they are not fetching traffic for your Blog/site.
- Now turn for Tag / Category / Archive pages. Generally it should have nofollow tags. But I personally believe that Tag and Category should not have nofollow attribute. It’s my personal perception but as an Internet Marketing Consultant I must advise you based on your blog /site.
I hope you must enjoy this article. I would appreciate if you share your view by comments. Even you want to add something to this or you want discuss something you should comment on that. So let’s see who is commenting and keep reading and Sharing at Internet Marketing Journal.
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I agree and already practise all your points about nofollowing-ing the non-content pages. But I can’t figure out why the homepage should be nofollow-ed as well.
Hey Veron !
It’s not HOME Page but just link called “Home” which lead us to Home Page that should be nofollow. Anchor text eg. “HOME” is not having much importance as Anchor text. If you are using any specific anchor text like “Food & Travels” then I will advice you to do not use nofollow tags.
Oh! That totally clears things up. Yes, it makes sense. Thanks I learned something new from you!
Jaydip,
Great Post…..
I would like to add one more: “Using NoFollow in Blog Comments” (If you are not using WordPress – as NoFollow in comments on WordPress blogs is default)
I also like to add little note on NOFOLLOW: “Nofollow is method to explain a link to tell search engines “I can’t or don’t give your word for this link.” In Google, nofollow links don’t pass PageRank and don’t pass anchortext [*].”
And have Questions Also:
1> If Using Nofollow Is So Beneficial Why Are None Of The big Sites Doing This: (SITES LIKE BBC.COM, REGISTER.COM, ECONSULTANCY.COM, etc, etc)
2> What if ? Take Example
There is one page of blog/site having 100 comments, that means 100 NOFOLLOW Links for just commenting + other nofollow links like you said (RSS FEED, HOME PAGE, etc etc)
Doesn’t too many NOFOLLOW LINKS hurt your page ?
3> Is NOFOLLOW tags still work for increasing the page rank?
Regards,
Kamal Patel