Nofollow links to own website pages

[henandstag]

To preserve link juice should I "nofollow" links to about us and contact us pages that appear at the top of our navigation?

I read this article - but I am not familiar with the authenticity:

http://www.eminentseo.com/blog/navigation-menu-optimization-best-practices/

Thanks

Mike

[GPainter]

You could but I wouldn't recommend "page sculpting" Google knows of the tactic and it doesn't really benefit you. It's better to put your effort into boosting the page via other methods like improving content, link building etc. etc.

To put this into a bit more perspective no-follow were originally introduced for a few reasons but one of them was when you want to link to a site but you don't really trust it, so essentially you're almost saying you don't trust content on your own pages...

tl:dr: I would not recommend it.

[KevinBudzynski]

I agree totally with Chris and according to Matt Cutts:

"So if it’s a link from one page on your site to another page on your site, you want that featuring to flow, you want Googlebot to be able to find that page," Cutts continued. "So almost every link within your site, that is a link going from one page on your site to another page on your site, I would make sure the PageRank does flow which would mean leaving off the nofollow."

So, just use no-follow for links to websites you don't trust.