Privacy policy page at the bottom of web

[seoanalytics]

Hello,

I am wondering if having my privacy policy page at the bottom of my site (meaning being linked from every page on my site) can hurt me in terms of flow of juice ?

[Agenciaseomadrid]

WIth robotx.txt you can stop to google to index. the problem is that page is duplicate in many many sites around internet and it seems as a duplicate content for google.

[Joe_Stoffel]

Nah, I wouldn't worry about it. These sitewide footer links are not given much weight so I doubt it is taking much equity from the other links on the page. It is a pretty standard practice for reputable websites, I would leave it as is. Check out the link below for a Search Engine Round Table article that discusses the 'weight' of this type of link.

Google: Links In Footers Or Sitewides Are Not Given That Much Weight

[seoanalytics]

I have also heard they aren't given much weight but when I go in my webmaster tools it says that it is the most linked page of my website so I really wonder how it can less weighted if google webmaster tools give such a strong signal to it ?

[Joe_Stoffel]

Just to clarify, this is showing up as the page with the most internal links pointing to it? Or this is showing up in the 'Links to Your Site' report?

The answer is the same though. This report just shows where most of your links are pointing to, it does not claim which are the most authoritative or those that carry the most weight. Nofollow links (links that are stripped of SEO value) will also show up in these same reports. It is simply looking at link quantity, nothing else.

[seoanalytics]

That is true Joe. I forgot about that. So it can have the most links and not carry any weight...

[EGOL]

If you use nofollow, then no search engine value passes through the link.

I would not do that with links on my own website.

I would also stop worrying about a link to your privacy page in the footer.  It is almost a requirement of doing business and everyone has them.

[Agenciaseomadrid]

Like that in robots.txt

Disallow: /my-private-terms.hmtl