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Originally Posted by activeco
What do you mean by that?
I don't see any relationship with nofollow and number of keywords on the page.
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I wasn't talking about the number of keywords on the page.
SEO has the effect that the number of keyword phrases a
site is found for, increases. There are so many variations on a basic keyword phrase and longer keyword phrases that they are giving a site many more visitors than those few main keywords you put in your title and other places.
When you nofollow a bunch of pages and also noindex them as described by Greg Boser then you´re going to lose a whole bunch of reasons to get positions for those types of keyword phrases. I can imagine that this has a negative effect on the total number of visitors.
Generaly when we optimize a site the number of keywords the site is found for goes up 10 times. (like being found for 400 different keyword phrases per month before optimization to like 4000 different keyword phrases after optimization.) The nofollow (the way Greg Boser suggests to do in big sites) may have as a result that the total number of visitors goes down.
The idea that the more important pages have to get more visitors by sculpting
PR using nofollow doesn't make that much sense to me. You can argue that a contact page is less important, but it won't be found that often anyway.
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It doesn't matter if you lose 1,000 visitors coming to your 'privacy' page with a keyword "IP address", when you get another 1,000 going to your shopping cart page with a keyword "buy <product> now".
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Here you are assuming that reducing the
PR of that privacy page will make those positions for "ip address" dissapear and that by the added
PR to those product pages they will gain positions. In my oppinion that's a wrong assumption. Google doesn't work in that way. What's needed is a good internal link structure to get those pages to rank higher. Anchor texts of internal links for example have a much greater effect so it's better to focus on that than to focus on nofollowing links with hardly any effect.
Again, in huge sites there may be some effect, but then you'd be targeting higher level category pages and reduce the
PR of the deeper content pages (That's Greg Boser's suggestion again). And in most comercial sites that would mean reducing the
PR of your product pages. Doesn't seem that smart to do. Perhaps sites like article websites could benefit from something like this but for most sites,
PR sculpting is a big waste of time.