Should I 'nofollow' the pages on my site I want to rank the highest??
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I have a lot of pages on my site & I was wondering if I would be better off tagging the pages that are most important to me nofollow.
Any suggestions would be wonderful. Thanks
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The way Eliathah is suggesting is correct if you are looking at external links from your site.
If you are look at links to other pages on your website ("lot of pages on my site") then i would never nofollow them unless they really are only the increase the number of pages on your site and don't contain any real usefull info. Then again, why would you make a page without any usefull info right?
Hope this helps
Kind Regards
Jarno
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if you think the association with the pages you're linking to is negative in Google's eyes, then go ahead and nofollow them. if you're linking to quality resources, it actually should have a positive impact on your rankings, not a negative one
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