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  1. #1
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    Nofollow for a directory

    Hi

    I have a smallish custom made directory with 800+ outbound links, each link is on its own page with a description of the link/website.

    Currently I am getting about 9000 visits and 30,000 pageviews a month with 60% of traffic coming from Google search, the rest mainly direct or website referrals.

    My main problem is that all my traffic appears to be from one time phases and not repeat searches. For example out of the 6500 visits i've received over the last 30 days the most the search phrase only had a total of 90 visits. Is this normal for a website getting 9000 visits a month? I am ranked about 40ish in Google for that particular phrase.

    So I have been thinking of ways to improve this, one idea that came to mind which is used on most other directories is adding rel=nofollow to outbound links. Has anyone had any experience with nofollow? Any other bright ideas to get my rankings up?

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    If you make the links nofollow, you might lose repeat visitors especially those who are after dofollow links. May be you could limit dofollow links as paid links only and free links would be nofollow.
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    99% of my users wouldn't have a clue what nofollow is. I'm more interested in if it will improve my rankings.
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    @Hoopla-Brad,

    I would like to give you more idea on how spiders works on analyzing your pages. Spiders weigh a lot of things when it arrives on a page. Two of the significant factors it analyzes are the number of outgoing links in a page and the relevancy of each link to the page. Spiders go weighing outgoing links vs inbound links, and relevancy vs nofollow links.

    So, if there's more outgoing than incoming links, the page would likely not get the PR it deserves, thus can provide only a weak push (vote) to other internal pages linked directly from it. And, if the page is linking to non-related pages/links in a dofollow manner will devalue the theme of the page, thus will not rank in SERP higher for keywords it actually represents. ex. a recreation page should only link to recreational references, not to computer hacking whatsoever.

    But, you can still link to non-related pages, only if it really is necessary by employing a nofollow attribute so to not relate the page to the non-related link. Moreover, if the link is not really useful in the page, better remove it than use nofollow so to conserve PR juices for other important links as the counting of links is conducted regardless of its orientation. See sample equation below for better understanding.

    a page with PR 5 = 100 outbound links, 50 are nofollow, PR juice spread is .05 for each link, only 2.5 is distributed, the other half disappear with nofollow.

    a page with PR 5 = 100 outbound links, all dofollow, PR juice spread is .05 for each link, full 5 is distributed.

    a page with PR 5 = 50 outbound links, 50 nofollow links were deleted, PR juice spread is .1, full 5 is distributed.

    Now, it is up to you to use nofollow or totally remove irrelevant links on your pages.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mircoshields View Post
    @Hoopla-Brad,

    I would like to give you more idea on how spiders works on analyzing your pages. Spiders weigh a lot of things when it arrives on a page. Two of the significant factors it analyzes are the number of outgoing links in a page and the relevancy of each link to the page. Spiders go weighing outgoing links vs inbound links, and relevancy vs nofollow links.

    So, if there's more outgoing than incoming links, the page would likely not get the PR it deserves, thus can provide only a weak push (vote) to other internal pages linked directly from it. And, if the page is linking to non-related pages/links in a dofollow manner will devalue the theme of the page, thus will not rank in SERP higher for keywords it actually represents. ex. a recreation page should only link to recreational references, not to computer hacking whatsoever.

    But, you can still link to non-related pages, only if it really is necessary by employing a nofollow attribute so to not relate the page to the non-related link. Moreover, if the link is not really useful in the page, better remove it than use nofollow so to conserve PR juices for other important links as the counting of links is conducted regardless of its orientation. See sample equation below for better understanding.

    a page with PR 5 = 100 outbound links, 50 are nofollow, PR juice spread is .05 for each link, only 2.5 is distributed, the other half disappear with nofollow.

    a page with PR 5 = 100 outbound links, all dofollow, PR juice spread is .05 for each link, full 5 is distributed.

    a page with PR 5 = 50 outbound links, 50 nofollow links were deleted, PR juice spread is .1, full 5 is distributed.

    Now, it is up to you to use nofollow or totally remove irrelevant links on your pages.
    Thank you, thats what I wanted to hear. All outbound links are related but some are better quality than others.
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    Having no follow will just receive an back link from yahoo but no use in google

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    Nofollow concept is coming for avoiding spam at your website or blogs commenting site but it is considers as spam for your web pages in general cases.

    If your web directory are going well as traffic and also ranking point of view then no need to make it rel=nofollow to outbound links, you just checking if some one adding in not relevant category then removed such kind of links.

    because adding more and more outbound links are given updates in your website.

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    If directory has nofollow attributes no one will consider adding web site there.
    But some directories are cheating in the such way.
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    Users wouldn't know what nofollow is.

    Quote Originally Posted by tochandresh View Post
    Nofollow concept is coming for avoiding spam at your website or blogs commenting site but it is considers as spam for your web pages in general cases.

    If your web directory are going well as traffic and also ranking point of view then no need to make it rel=nofollow to outbound links, you just checking if some one adding in not relevant category then removed such kind of links.

    because adding more and more outbound links are given updates in your website.
    That's what worries me, I believe the links are good quality but know whos. All I know is other websites/directories with the same topic are ranking much better than in when it comes to the main keywords.

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