rel="nofollow"

[IanDewar]

Hi

I would like to add rel="no follow" code to the a href's on the Category links from my home page (http://www.hersey.co.uk)

Can anyone help me find the page and line I need to amend to achieve this?

Thanks

Ian

[bigbadboy]

Why?
You do know this will affect your site's seo.

[IanDewar]

I understand that to retain the power of my growing incoming links on my home page I need to retain them there and not reduce them by passing on the "juice" to all the pages within the site. Including rel="nofollow" in the link will achieve this.

I'd also like to include:
onclick="void(window.open(this.href, '', '')); return false;"
in the code as well.

Ian

[bhakans]

I would be interested to add nofollow in a few places myself, namely on all instances or shipping policy, privacy policy etc. Yes, those pages need to be there and easy to find - but they don't need any link juice.

However, I think it would be a mistake to nofollow any links leading to your categories as this may indeed make the search engines ignore those pages altogether. You shouldn't use nofollow for pages you do want to have indexed.

A much better approach would be to get the code altered so that the search engine find your main content panel (where your products are actually displayed) before they have a look at the links in the navigational menus. This way the links in your main content panel get assigned a higher priority than the navigational ones.

Anyone know how to do this on Zen Cart templates? Currently a search engine will (on most templates anyway) read everything in your left hand column first.

[yellow1912]

Anyone know how to do this on Zen Cart templates? Currently a search engine will (on most templates anyway) read everything in your left hand column first.

A bit misleading: it reads from top to bottom. Most of the time the code for left column happens to be on top of the one for right. Note that with css you can reverse this.

[bhakans]

Most of the time the code for left column happens to be on top of the one for right. Note that with css you can reverse this.

Yes, that was what I was trying to say...

How about an example on how to solve this "problem" with css?