Ahh... you are learning pretty fast :-)

Example:
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mysite.com/Search.aspx">Search</a>

That will stop PageRank flowing into general links like Contact Us or Customer Service. A good idea to prevent PageRank being wasted on unimportant links. That will help PR being shared more equally towards your content pages. Good point.

I am seasoned in html and java but not completely in asp.net yet. I know what html to use just not sure what files to place it in and where in those files. Can you help me out Omer? I would like to no follow my search page, contact us, myaccount_orders/login, privacy policy, terms, faq, affiliate program and return request.

Placing links in Robots.txt will not stop the PageRank flowing to those pages.

Sure jvmaloley. I didnt visit your site but I can tell you how it is done. Very easy. Look at all the links that are not important on your page. Those links are most of the time placed in Footer and Header.
Here is a simple list:
Contact Us / FAQ's / Shipping Policy / Order Tracking / Privacy Policy / Search / Terms of Use / Customer Service / Your account / Sign In.... you can also consider some other pages depending on your site content and internal navigation.

One you determine all of them, then first you will need to either modify your Header.ascx.vb or Footer.ascx.vb files. BV comes with ready linking from those pages to search, contact us etc. Just remove the ones pointing to pages like contact us, your account etc...

Then just write the links' codes including 'nofollow' like the following:
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mysite.com/ContactUs.aspx">Contact Us</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mysite.com/Terms.aspx">Terms of Use</a>.... etc.

You probably also know how to do the same with <ul><li>...etc All depends how you want to place the links.

Google PR computations are very frequent. Google bar wont show it but they internally calculate PR often. So you should see the results within like 2-3 weeks. Some of your MAIN content pages will start getting ranked better. I am looking at most sites and I see potential 1st page rankings but since their internal navigation is poorly desıgned, their rankings are also not as they should be.

Omer,

the current link looks like this

<li>
<asp:HyperLink ID="lnkContactUs" runat="server" NavigateUrl="~/ContactUs.aspx" />
| </li>

so my links should look like this?

<li>
<asp:HyperLink ID="lnkContactUs" runat="server" NavigateUrl="<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mysite.com/ContactUs.aspx">Contact Us</a>" />
| </li>

Could you post what the code looks like in your header and or footer?

Guys,


You dont need to edit a code behind (.aspx.vb) file for adding this attribute.



Your existing link looks like this:

&lt;asp:HyperLink ID="lnkContactUs" runat="server" NavigateUrl="~/ContactUs.aspx" /&gt;


Change it to this:

&lt;asp:HyperLink ID="lnkContactUs" runat="server" NavigateUrl="~/ContactUs.aspx" rel="nofollow" /&gt;


You are not required to make any other changes to get it working. All you are doing here is to add an additional attribute. If you want to know how google interprets this attribute, please read:

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=96569



Thanks,

Satya

support @ bayquel.com

How do I no follow Login.aspx? Here is my code but I can not see where there is a link for Login.aspx. When I look at my source code in the browser it shows my Login.aspx does not have the "no follow".

<%@ Control Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="Header.ascx.vb" Inherits="BVModules_Themes_Painted_Paper_Header" %>
<%@ Register Src="~/BVModules/Controls/WaitingMessage.ascx" TagName="WaitingMessage" TagPrefix="uc4" %>
<%@ Register Src="~/BVModules/Controls/CartTotals.ascx" TagName="CartTotals" TagPrefix="uc3" %>
<%@ Register Src="~/BVModules/Controls/LoginMenu.ascx" TagName="LoginMenu" TagPrefix="uc2" %>
<%@ Register Src="~/BVModules/Controls/MainMenu.ascx" TagName="MainMenu" TagPrefix="uc1" %>
<div id="header">
<div id="brandingarea">
<h1>
<asp:HyperLink ID="lnkStoreName" runat="server" Text="Print Book" NavigateUrl="http://www.myurl.com/"
Style="text-decoration: none;"></asp:HyperLink></h1>
<div id="headernavmenu">
<ul>
<li>
<asp:HyperLink ID="lnkHome" runat="server" NavigateUrl="http://www.myurl.com/" />
| </li>
<li>
<uc2:LoginMenu ID="LoginMenu1" ShowUserName="True" runat="server" />
| </li>
<li>
<asp:HyperLink ID="lnkMyAccount" runat="server" NavigateUrl="~/MyAccount_Orders.aspx" rel="nofollow" />
|</li>
<li>
<asp:HyperLink ID="lnkContactUs" runat="server" NavigateUrl="~/ContactUs.aspx" rel="nofollow" />
| </li>
<li>
<asp:HyperLink ID="lnkSearch" runat="server" NavigateUrl="~/Search.aspx" rel="nofollow" />
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="minicart">
<uc3:CartTotals ID="CartTotals1" runat="server" />
-
<asp:HyperLink ID="lnkCart" runat="server" NavigateUrl="~/Cart.aspx" rel="nofollow" />
</div>
</div>
<div id="headermainmenu">
<uc1:MainMenu ID="MainMenu1" LinksPerRow="7" MaximumLinks="7" runat="server" />
</div>
<uc4:WaitingMessage ID="WaitingMessage1" runat="server" />
<hr />
</div>

My source code in browsers shows my Login.aspx as followable. How do I change this if there is not Login.aspx link in my header? Also the nofollow method is strictly for better distribution of Google PageRank throughout content. This way PageRank is not being wasted on pages that aren't content.

Thanks Satya! I noticed when you use rel="nofollow" and not rel='nofollow' you get a page load error why is this?

Ok I have a add on question for this. Unfortuantly this question is for BV2004, however it looks like posts/questions for those have been locked.


What I need to do is modify all catagory links in left the left col to included the code rel="nofollow"



I have added the following function to the catagorylist.ascx.vb file:



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