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Originally Posted by thindenim
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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The way you have implemented this is exactly what I am interested in trying.
My question to you is, have you noticed any difference in terms of
PR, search results and in the authority of the pages that have had more "link juice" passed on -- department 1 & 2.
For all the work you've spent setting this structure up, have you noticed the results and in your opinion, is it worth it?
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Originally Posted by crankydave
Except that MC has already said that it can cause a page to become "orphaned". And, as I have said, I have seen pages get deindexed when the nofollow is added to links that point to the page.
So whether or not they "actually" follow the link or not really doesn't matter if the pages are getting orphaned or deindexed because of it.
Dave
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Isn't the nofollow command recommended by Google for the sole purpose of not passing link juice/
PR and is their preferred method to help cut down artificial ranking created from paid links? It would seem counter-intuitive on Google's part to recommend a method and then turn around and deindex pages because it is being used -- otherwise, why would anyone use it?