about the nofollow tag

I’m not in the typing mode so how about giving me a call and I’ll walk you through this.

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2) Nofollow won’t harm an affiliate link, it simply tells the search engines that you don’t endorse the link. Users don’t see nofollow, so they still click and get to where they want to go. Some programs don’t want you to modify their code, but adding nofollow to simple hyperlink will still work just fine.

3) According to the search engines you should use nofollow when you don’t want to endorse an external site, but you still want to have the link on your site. Nofollow was invented to combat blog spam for the comments portion where everyone was posting spammy links. Having nofollow means that Google and others will just ignore remove any of the juice that would normally pass to that website.

4) Potentially, there are many reasons why your website may be penalised. Linking out to a bunch of spammy sites is definitely one way to get a penalty. Start by going to Webmaster Central on Google to figure out if/why your site has a penalty.

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One more thing, When Gary was talking about using nofollow for internal links, is he suggesting to “nofollow” links in my navigation? Thanks in advance

Is theory yes, but i believe an htaccess would be easier. No index means Google will not put the page into their index (not stop the bot from crawling it); and nofollow just means you do not endorse the page put the link is still followed.

In both cases the answer is yes, if you are trying trying to do on-page on-site link sculpting, and the page you are linking from has some juice, or backlinks, you can still point it in the right direction.

Only use the nofollow on navigation that does not point to a page that you want to rank. I use nofollows on all non-targeted anchor text except the front page. I use internal pages to hold, store and build PR, then change the link sculpting to target new terms that are hot, or existing pages that need a boost.

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I do that at every conference and CAP article/iGaming.

At least try to. I was just being lazy that night.

It was designed to combat comment spam and I believe, should only be used for such purposes. Anything else is an abuse of the system and we all know that these tricks come back to bite us somewhere down the line.

It sounds a nice cosy on-page SEO tweak but I worry that it is still a mis-use and will therefore be penalised at some stage in the future.

Just my HO