Don’t use rel=nofollow on internal links Search Engine Guideline

Description

Using rel=nofollow on internal links dilutes PageRank flow through your site.

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PageRank is distributed between all outgoing links on a page (including the nofollow links), so PageRank flowing to internal nofollow links vanishes.

Applicable standards

• Google

Change history

• 5.36 Jan 2020 Take X-Robots-Tag into account.
• 5.0 Oct 2012 Fixed false positive.
• 4.2 Dec 2010 Fixed false positive.
• 3.5 Dec 2009 Added.

This page describes a web site issue detected in HTML documents by SortSite Desktop and OnDemand Suite.

Rule ID: SeoGoogleNoFollow