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Originally Posted by Peter (IMC)
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.
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Of course. Suggesting noidex-ing white-hat regular pages is at least irresponsible. I don't advocate that.
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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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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.
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PR does gain positions. It's hard to find anyone today disagreeing with that.
The simple fact (again) is that the distribution of the
PR from a particular page depends on # of receiving links so instead of: "
PR juice per link = Transfering
PR / X links" you have "
PR juice per link = Transfering
PR / (X-#nofollow's)".
The
PR gain can be enough/substantial to boost important pages in serps and produce more traffic to those pages.
The traffic to insignificant pages is reduced but they are still there, less linked, indexed, having the same content.