Comments on: The nofollow tag, robots.txt and leaking your PageRank http://www.1stsearchenginerankings.com/the-nofollow-tag-robotstxt-and-leaking-your-pagerank.html Tips and Advice for Small Business Owners Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:37:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: pkudel4 http://www.1stsearchenginerankings.com/the-nofollow-tag-robotstxt-and-leaking-your-pagerank.html/comment-page-1#comment-5265 pkudel4 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:17:22 +0000 http://www.1stsearchenginerankings.com/2007/08/07/the-nofollow-tag-robotstxt-and-leaking-your-pagerank/#comment-5265 VISIO - in normal practice IMHO you do not link to your sitemap.xml file from any of your pages.. you say that it should be available to google, does google use different bot to read xml sitemaps? according to index.php - I would 301 redirect from index.php to site.com, remove all references to index.php from the site, but defo I would not block it in robots.txt... It looks like we haave different opinions... sweet :) VISIO – in normal practice IMHO you do not link to your sitemap.xml file from any of your pages.. you say that it should be available to google, does google use different bot to read xml sitemaps? according to index.php – I would 301 redirect from index.php to site.com, remove all references to index.php from the site, but defo I would not block it in robots.txt… It looks like we haave different opinions… sweet :)

]]> By: visio http://www.1stsearchenginerankings.com/the-nofollow-tag-robotstxt-and-leaking-your-pagerank.html/comment-page-1#comment-4884 visio Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:06:18 +0000 http://www.1stsearchenginerankings.com/2007/08/07/the-nofollow-tag-robotstxt-and-leaking-your-pagerank/#comment-4884 BTW Pkudel thanks for alerting me to the fact that the captcha causes that issue. @ Maria I would say to keep all pages less than a click away use a sitemap.html page and list all your pages there... if those links are all to pages with just a snippet of text then I would definitely add it all to the same page... You should not consider linking to your pages as hurting your rankings if those pages are quality, relevant and useful to your community, if so then you are fine. You should be nofollowing and disallowing those pages which are not necessarily for Googles use, duplicates of pages etc. bounce rate is a factor in google and yes any way you can combat that will help you both in conversions and google rankings. BTW Pkudel thanks for alerting me to the fact that the captcha causes that issue.

@ Maria I would say to keep all pages less than a click away use a sitemap.html page and list all your pages there… if those links are all to pages with just a snippet of text then I would definitely add it all to the same page…

You should not consider linking to your pages as hurting your rankings if those pages are quality, relevant and useful to your community, if so then you are fine. You should be nofollowing and disallowing those pages which are not necessarily for Googles use, duplicates of pages etc.

bounce rate is a factor in google and yes any way you can combat that will help you both in conversions and google rankings.

]]> By: visio http://www.1stsearchenginerankings.com/the-nofollow-tag-robotstxt-and-leaking-your-pagerank.html/comment-page-1#comment-4883 visio Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:01:27 +0000 http://www.1stsearchenginerankings.com/2007/08/07/the-nofollow-tag-robotstxt-and-leaking-your-pagerank/#comment-4883 @ Pkudel4 Sitemap.xml should not be spidered by googlebot, you should have an html version for that, the XML is for the sitemaps on google and is best to keep out of the index. You also want only one instance of each page so a index.php instance is a duplicate of site.com and is not needed. May seem crazy but believe me it isn't, just try it. - Note that just changing one thing may not result in a noticeable change in rankings. @ Pkudel4 Sitemap.xml should not be spidered by googlebot, you should have an html version for that, the XML is for the sitemaps on google and is best to keep out of the index.

You also want only one instance of each page so a index.php instance is a duplicate of site.com and is not needed. May seem crazy but believe me it isn’t, just try it. – Note that just changing one thing may not result in a noticeable change in rankings.

]]> By: Pkudel4 http://www.1stsearchenginerankings.com/the-nofollow-tag-robotstxt-and-leaking-your-pagerank.html/comment-page-1#comment-4881 Pkudel4 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:46:18 +0000 http://www.1stsearchenginerankings.com/2007/08/07/the-nofollow-tag-robotstxt-and-leaking-your-pagerank/#comment-4881 Why shoemoney blocked sitemap.xml? Blocking index.php to keep one instance of the domain hopepage also seems a bit crazy:) this comment box is driving me crazy - when you misstype captcha your message is cleared... low Why shoemoney blocked sitemap.xml? Blocking index.php to keep one instance of the domain hopepage also seems a bit crazy:)
this comment box is driving me crazy – when you misstype captcha your message is cleared… low

]]> By: mARIA http://www.1stsearchenginerankings.com/the-nofollow-tag-robotstxt-and-leaking-your-pagerank.html/comment-page-1#comment-4815 mARIA Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:58:04 +0000 http://www.1stsearchenginerankings.com/2007/08/07/the-nofollow-tag-robotstxt-and-leaking-your-pagerank/#comment-4815 iN WHAT WAY DO INTERNAL LINKS HURT MY WEBSITE, pLEASE tAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE FOLLOWING SITUATION: I HAVE A MAGAZINE TYPE WEBSITE (CONTENT ONLY) AND i WANT TO MAKE ALL RELEVANT MATERIAL TO ONE SUBJECT AVAILABLE AT 1 OR MAXIMUM 2 CLICK AWAY. i USE RELATED ARTICLES FROM ALL AREAS. LETS SAY I TALK ABOUT SONY eRICCSON AND I PUT IN LINKS OF RELATED ARTICLES OR ITEMS FROM NEWS, DOWNLOADS, REVIEWS, CUSTOMER COMMENTS AND SO ON. DOES THIS SITUATION HURT MY RANKING? IF THE ANSWER IS YES, THEN WE COME BACK TO DECIDING WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT: USABILITY OR SEO. tHEN AGAIN, I READ SOMEPLACE THAT TIME ON SITE AND BOUNCE RATE ARE ALSO TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT BY GOOGLE, AND WHAT BETTER WAY TO INCREASE BOTH INDEXES THEN BY PROVIDING RELATED ARTICLES. aLSO, i LINK SOME OF THE WORDS IN AN ARTICLE (LESS COMMON) TO A GLOSSARY - DOES THAT HURT MY RANKINGS TOO? tHANK YOU FOR THE ANSWERS! iN WHAT WAY DO INTERNAL LINKS HURT MY WEBSITE, pLEASE tAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE FOLLOWING SITUATION: I HAVE A MAGAZINE TYPE WEBSITE (CONTENT ONLY) AND i WANT TO MAKE ALL RELEVANT MATERIAL TO ONE SUBJECT AVAILABLE AT 1 OR MAXIMUM 2 CLICK AWAY. i USE RELATED ARTICLES FROM ALL AREAS. LETS SAY I TALK ABOUT SONY eRICCSON AND I PUT IN LINKS OF RELATED ARTICLES OR ITEMS FROM NEWS, DOWNLOADS, REVIEWS, CUSTOMER COMMENTS AND SO ON. DOES THIS SITUATION HURT MY RANKING? IF THE ANSWER IS YES, THEN WE COME BACK TO DECIDING WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT: USABILITY OR SEO.
tHEN AGAIN, I READ SOMEPLACE THAT TIME ON SITE AND BOUNCE RATE ARE ALSO TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT BY GOOGLE, AND WHAT BETTER WAY TO INCREASE BOTH INDEXES THEN BY PROVIDING RELATED ARTICLES.
aLSO, i LINK SOME OF THE WORDS IN AN ARTICLE (LESS COMMON) TO A GLOSSARY – DOES THAT HURT MY RANKINGS TOO?

tHANK YOU FOR THE ANSWERS!

]]> By: BeachBum http://www.1stsearchenginerankings.com/the-nofollow-tag-robotstxt-and-leaking-your-pagerank.html/comment-page-1#comment-4802 BeachBum Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:52:39 +0000 http://www.1stsearchenginerankings.com/2007/08/07/the-nofollow-tag-robotstxt-and-leaking-your-pagerank/#comment-4802 I am just learning about nofollow, but really don't mind if outbound links will "leak" some of my PR. I feel that if you don't try to cheat the system, things will work out. As for the internal links I did not realize that too many would hurt my ranking. Thanks for the info. BeachBum I am just learning about nofollow, but really don’t mind if outbound links will “leak” some of my PR. I feel that if you don’t try to cheat the system, things will work out. As for the internal links I did not realize that too many would hurt my ranking. Thanks for the info.

BeachBum

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