Should a no-follow tag be used on a ssl or trust seal?

[BradBorst]

I'm just wondering if there would be some benefit if this was followed since the purpose of it is to add trust to your site.

[saibose]

a rel=nofollow tag on the embedded tag would be a good thing to do since that would tell Google not to give any link authority to that URL.

[Hondaspeder]

Great question. I don't think the algorithms go so far as to take this into account for ranking, but that's not to say it couldn't have any effect. I'm not exactly sure how it works, but verisign has the seal-in-search for enabled browsers that shows users secure sites from search. If the seal's link contains some specialized URL that is specific to your site than I wouldn't tamper with it; otherwise I think it's safe.

[AlanMosley]

If you no-follow the link Juice will be wasted, why nort pass the LJ to the page, then pass it on elsewhere, better then alowing it to evaperate.

Only use no follow when you thin the site may be damaging to link to.

[BradBorst]

I think you are right.  If there's any benefit for being a secure site, the search engines should be able to pick up on that from the search results.  Both Verisign and Mcafee do indicate a secure site in the search results.  I'm just now switching from Mcafee to Verisign, and I guess there's no reason to pass link juice to them.  Thanks for answering my question.