Why do people nofollow their own links

I have seen a few sites, e.g. wiki answers where site's own footer
links and some other links are nofollowed.. this helps their SEO.. if
yes.. how..

"aroop" <aroopk (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote ...

I have seen a few sites, e.g. wiki answers where site's own footer
links and some other links are nofollowed.. this helps their SEO.. if
yes.. how..

Usually it's done for no real reason at all - but if you know what you are
doing with internal links, it can be useful; you 'channel' page rank to
important pages, rather than to pages that don't particularly need to be
'found' - such as TOS, privacy policy, etc., etc.

In my view any gains are probably small - and most sites that try it, don't
seem to do it very well - you need have a clear plan of what you want, and
that means paying close attention to all links.

But it can have some value.
--
Andrew
sick-site-syndrome.com

"When 'Do no Evil' has been understood, then learn the harder, braver rule,
Do Good." ~ Arthur Guiterman

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed aroop <aroopk (AT) gmail (DOT) com> writing in
news:605c94af-2334-4af9-a821-a46ea35ca5b5 (AT) 35g2000pry (DOT) googlegroups.com:

I have seen a few sites, e.g. wiki answers where site's own footer
links and some other links are nofollowed.. this helps their SEO.. if
yes.. how..

I use it cases where a search engine bot could be going on a wild goose
chase, for example:
<ul>
<li><a href="<%=request.servervariables("SCRIPT_NAME")%>? style="print"
rel="noindex, nofollow">Print Stylesheet</a></li>
<li><a href="<%=request.servervariables("SCRIPT_NAME")%>? style="grayscale"
rel="noindex, nofollow">Grayscale Stylesheet</a></li>
</ul>

In the above, there is no reason for the bot to follow or index the link,
as all it does it tell the calling script to use a different stylesheet -
for the same content.
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On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:13:50 -0000, "Andrew Heenan" <fire (AT) will (DOT) com>
wrote:

"aroop" <aroopk (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote ...
I have seen a few sites, e.g. wiki answers where site's own footer
links and some other links are nofollowed.. this helps their SEO.. if
yes.. how..

Usually it's done for no real reason at all - but if you know what you are
doing with internal links, it can be useful; you 'channel'

funnel. It's called PR sculpting, generally.

page rank to
important pages, rather than to pages that don't particularly need to be
'found' - such as TOS, privacy policy, etc., etc.

In my view any gains are probably small - and most sites that try it, don't
seem to do it very well - you need have a clear plan of what you want, and
that means paying close attention to all links.

But it can have some value.

And sometimes, every little helps.

BB

On Jan 31, 12:02*pm, Big Bill <b... (AT) kruse (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:13:50 -0000, "Andrew Heenan" <f... (AT) will (DOT) com
wrote:

"aroop" <aro... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote ...
I have seen a few sites, e.g. wiki answers where site's own footer
links and some other links are nofollowed.. this helps their SEO.. if
yes.. how..

Usually it's done for no real reason at all - but if you know what you are
doing with internal links, it can be useful; you 'channel'

funnel. It's called PR sculpting, generally.

page rank to
important pages, rather than to pages that don't particularly need to be
'found' - such as TOS, privacy policy, etc., etc.

In my view any gains are probably small - and most sites that try it, don't
seem to do it very well - you need have a clear plan of what you want, and
that means paying close attention to all links.

But it can have some value.

And sometimes, every little helps.

BB

PR sculpting.. thanks for the term.. i found good amount of literature
on it now.. It appears quite conceptual though

"aroop" <aroopk (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

On Jan 31, 12:02 pm, Big Bill <b... (AT) kruse (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:13:50 -0000, "Andrew Heenan" <f... (AT) will (DOT) com
doing with internal links, it can be useful; you 'channel'
funnel. It's called PR sculpting, generally.

Apols - I never get the jargon right!
--
Andrew
sick-site-syndrome.com

"When 'Do no Evil' has been understood, then learn the harder, braver rule,
Do Good." ~ Arthur Guiterman

On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 02:05:39 -0800 (PST), aroop <aroopk (AT) gmail (DOT) com>
wrote:

PR sculpting.. thanks for the term.. i found good amount of literature
on it now.. It appears quite conceptual though

You mean, unproven? Often advice will be. It makes sense to me though.

BB