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[Bucket List Blogs] Now you can actually tell the Google bot not to follow the link by adding a "nofollow" attribute or by using a robot txt files. But since Blogger does not allow you to control your robot text file lets look at the nofollow attribute which you can control.

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[Everfluxx] Thesis theme SEO: How to get rid of the hidden nofollow on archive ...: (i.e., the PageRank and anchor text awesomeness that come with every crawlable link) flow through your archive pages, your posts will not benefit from the links on those pages: regular users will still be able to reach your posts through those links, but search engines won’t. The second reason is that the internal PageRank distribution of your blog as a whole will suffer from the fact that the nofollow attribute prevents archive pages from flowing back the link juice they get from the rest of your site -and that’s quite a lot of juice, since archive pages typically have site-wide links on WordPress blogs!

[Search Marketing Experiments Blog] SEO for Web Designers « Search Marketing Experiments Blog: They call this Page Rank (named after Larry Page) which basically determines a web page’s popularity based on how many links from other sites it has as well as other factors like topic relevance, keyword frequency and much more. Yahoo and MSN (Live.com) use similar sets of rules but they differ on some criteria to prioritize when determining a popular site.

[High-Quality Web Design, Cebu Website Design, Web Design Company Philippines | Eyeanventures.com] Advanced SEO Techniques: Website Design, Internal Page Rank and ...: You should use that on pages such as your Disclaimer, Privacy Policy and About page, and also on pages with a good amount of duplication such as pages where products are sorted by name, price, application and so on with a different page for each sorting method.  The same for the same page written in different languages and duplicates where only the keyword is changed.  All of these can get you in trouble and you should use the Robots.txt exclusion or a specific exclusion for each page involved.

[SEO Blog & Articles] Nofollow Attribute: The use of the nofollow link attribute for PageRank sculpting was popular for links that have no ranking value or potential – until it was debunked by Google in 2009. The pages affected included those that are expected to be on most websites -- terms and conditions, privacy policies, contact information, maps, etc.

[Search Engine Journal] Google Says Spamming Other Sites Can Lower Site Ranking | Search ...: In fact, by assigning a NOFOLLOW to all comments you are basically saying that you are not sure or responsible for quality of the website and so are unlikely or less likely to be punished by Google for having spam/bad quality links on your site.

[Webmaster Forum] The Whole DoFollow vs NoFollow Debate - Webmaster Forum: In addition, the Yahoo and Bing search engines also respect this attribute .In the latter case rel=" nofollow" actually tells a search engine "Don't score this link" rather than "Don't follow this link." This differs from the meaning of nofollow as used within a robots meta tag, which does tell a search engine: "Do not follow any of the .

[NameBee.com - Recent Articles] Common WordPress SEO Mistakes and How To Fix Them: Disregarding the NoFollow Link Attribute. no-follow Love it or hate it, the nofollow tag is helpful for publishers to direct mindless search engine indexing robots to your most important content.

[Latest Activity on Social Marketing Central] Using Nofollow Tags - Social Marketing Central: Crafting Pagerank: This refers to the technique of using Nofollow to the subpages of your website that are felt less significant in terms of converting, so that the link juice assigned to the home page of the site by the search engines is diverted only towards the sub pages that are more important. In other terms, this technique refers to “controlling the flow of link juice” within your website.

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