Re: Nofollow for pages on your own site?
A way I have implemented nofollow on my site is the following: -
I have 6 product departments, 2 of which are more important than the others (a lot more). Instead of splitting my link juice evenly between the 6 departments I link directly to the 2 important, link to the other 4 with no follow and place a link called "all departments", which is followed.
On the all departments page (which is passed pagerank) there are then links (followed) to each of the 6 departments. There are obviously other links on the page, but if we ignore them for a second the following happens: -
Again, using a hypothetical linkjuice rating of 100: -
Departments 1 & 2 get 33.3 points
The "All Departments" page gets 33.3 points
Each department (including 3,4,5,6) then gets 5.55 points passed from the all departments page.
If you left off Departments 1 & 2 from the all departments page, the 3,4,5,6 would get a quarter share of the 33.3 points.
Obviously this will only work if you have certain areas of your site, which you deem to be considerably more relevant than others. Nothing is orphaned in the structure, but you are passing more link juice to the more important sections.
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