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    • JABacchetta
      JABacchetta last edited by

      I have a few pages like the contact and privacy policy page that I could really care less about as far as whether people visit them, or whether the search engines index them.

      They also don't have any sort of unique content on them... pretty much duplicates of what you'd probably find on hundreds of other websites.

      Would it be logical then to just nofollow those pages?

      I just don't know if maybe there's something hidden that I'm not thinking of. For example, maybe Google wants to see that your website has a privacy policy, and by excluding it, you're actually hurting yourself.

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      • john4math
        john4math last edited by

        I'd just leave those links be.  Google knows what contact and privacy policies look like.  Nofollows don't conserve more link juice for other pages that page links to, it just prevents it from passing to the pages you nofollow the link to.

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