New post Matt cutts backlinks?

[Yellow Note Asset Finance]

has anyone seen this posted yesterday by Matt Cutts?

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagera...ting/#comments

I'm a bit lost? so is nofollow worth doing now?

[ecigworld]

Classic Matt Cutts Vagueness.

I think if you have done it, don't worry about changing it but if you are thinking about doing it then it may be better to focus on other, more powerful areas of SEO first.

[Yellow Note Asset Finance]

So if for example A1 business forum decided to move into the NOFOLLOW realms, A1 would suffer as the page rank is not following through the site?

Is that right?

[AWTS]

I've often found that this issue is best explained by using a blog as an example. Ranking will suffer - I believe - if the 'bot involved has too many links to follow. With a blog as an example, you really only want the 'bot to follow the links on your main home page.

If you let the 'bot follow links on e.g. archives, popular posts, categories, etc. then the 'bot is simply duplicating the links followed from your home page. This will result in penalties being levied by the engine involved.

The best-case scenario is to use nofollow on every single page in the blog, apart - of course - from your home page. That way, you're only asking the 'bot to follow one set of links instead of duplicating its work.

BTW, if you intend to do this on a blog, the easiest way is to use a plugin/widget...there are lots of them available!


HTH! :001_smile:

[Case]

So is it still worth putting nofollow on things like T&C pages etc? Or is it all just a waste of time and we should just let pagerank flow where it wants?

[Yellow Note Asset Finance]

I let it flow across my site and I seem to have PR 3 on a few pages throughout

[AWTS]

Originally Posted by Case

So is it still worth putting nofollow on things like T&C pages etc? Or is it all just a waste of time and we should just let pagerank flow where it wants?

It's a personal call. If your site is under, say, 10 pages then the internal links won't be that many. Compare with a well-established blog which, when you take archives, categories, tags, etc. into consideration, could run to several hundred pages or more, then you asking the bots to follow the same internal and external links several hundred times. In this kind of scenario, where you business site extends to a lot of pages, then you really should think about using nofollow.

Amazon UK, for example, make extensive use of nofollow on links.

HTH :001_smile:

[Case]

Is there any advantage in nofollowing duplicate links to the same page?

Lets say I had 3 links to the same page. A product image, the product name and then 'Click here'.

Is it worth putting nofollow on the image and 'Click here' links and leaving the link on the product name?

My theory here is to bring down the number of links per page. Does nofollow work like that?

Cheers