Is my "term & conditions"-"privacy policy" and "About Us" pages stealing link juice?

[SEObleu.com]

should i make them no follow?

or is this a bogus method?

[helpwanted]

Yes...if it is of no importance to you then you are hurting yourself and your site -- just use the no index no follow tag -- this will prevent it from indexing and passing juice to those insignificant pages

[KeriMorgret]

There's a good discussion about this in a very similar post from a few hours ago at http://www.seomoz.org/q/should-i-make-all-my-non-money-pages-no-follow. The short answer is that a couple years back it may have helped, but not anymore.

You do want to index them, as you want the search engines to see that you have a privacy policy, and both the privacy policy and about us help the engines trust your site just a tad more.

[firstconversion]

I wouldn't bother with nofollow, I would put all 3 on the same page & consolidate that way. If you wanted, you could leave your navigation as is, by just using anchors to get to specific parts of the page

I don't like to noindex or block the legal pages, as they are a signal for trust

[helpwanted]

Hi Keri...thanks for sharing some insight to my response as well ;>)

Is due to the Panda Update why they should be indexed -- since the panda update I believe now wants to see the contact page and those 2 other pages I think ...hummm thanks for clarity !