My "About Page" got ranked higher than my domain..

13 years ago

I'm guessing your site is less than 8 weeks old? If this the case then it is a normal occurence. Google takes a bit of time to rank a site accordingly. All you need to do is continue building links with the relevent anchor text to the pages you want to rank. From my experience it can take up to 8 weeks for Google to correctly rank each page.

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mpacheco 13 years ago

Yeah the site's about three weeks old... So I guess I'll just keep my fingers crossed and keep pounding away at those backlinks. Cheers for the tip.
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- JohnnyC123 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by mpacheco
  
  Yeah the site's about three weeks old... So I guess I'll just keep my fingers crossed and keep pounding away at those backlinks. Cheers for the tip.
  
  Probably best to pump backlinks to your domain, not your about page
  
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  mpacheco 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by JohnnyC123
  
  Probably best to pump backlinks to your domain, not your about page
  
  hahaha yes, indeed! This is why I thought it was strange.. I've not posted any backlinks to my About page...
  
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StoneWilson

13 years ago

If it's a new website, it's not strange, but you'd better make the page like "About", "Contact Us" nofollow, you won't update it often and you don't want it share your website's PR juice.

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mpacheco

13 years ago

Originally Posted by StoneWilson

If it's a new website, it's not strange, but you'd better make the page like "About", "Contact Us" nofollow, you won't update it often and you don't want it share your website's PR juice.

Oh? I didn't realize you should make those kind of pages nofollow. Is there a post or article somewhere you could point me to that explains this a bit more?

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dadamson 13 years ago

Originally Posted by mpacheco

Oh? I didn't realize you should make those kind of pages nofollow. Is there a post or article somewhere you could point me to that explains this a bit more?

I think he means the internal links that point to these pages should be nofollow. - This is sometimes a good idea.

You just need to add rel="nofollow" in the link html.

ex:

<a rel="nofollow" href="aboutpage">About</a>

You can also make the page noindex and derank the importance of the about, contact, etc pages in your xml sitemap.

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dburk

13 years ago

Originally Posted by mpacheco

Oh? I didn't realize you should make those kind of pages nofollow. Is there a post or article somewhere you could point me to that explains this a bit more?

Hi mpacheco,

Don't do it!

That was bad information. All that happens when you add the nofollow attribute to those links is that you prevent link juice from flowing. That link juice is lost to the ether. If you leave those links alone you get more link juice flowing through your website.

For best results, let the juice flow.

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mpacheco

13 years ago

Originally Posted by dburk

Hi mpacheco,

Don't do it!

That was bad information. All that happens when you add the nofollow attribute to those links is that you prevent link juice from flowing. That link juice is lost to the ether. If you leave those links alone you get more link juice flowing through your website.

For best results, let the juice flow.

haha, there's no shortage of conflicting information when it comes to SEO, is there...

Thanks for clearing that up, Don.

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hotftuna

13 years ago

Originally Posted by dburk

Hi mpacheco,

Don't do it!

That was bad information. All that happens when you add the nofollow attribute to those links is that you prevent link juice from flowing. That link juice is lost to the ether. If you leave those links alone you get more link juice flowing through your website.

For best results, let the juice flow.

I agree- let PR flow naturally. Could it be that your About page is more relevant to your key phrase?

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Emarketing Excellence

13 years ago

I won't recommend adding nofollow tag to your main pages (About or contact). However, the ranking depends on the quality of content. You need to revise your home page content and make it more optimized than about page. Also make use of Metas for ranking the home page and remove similar meta tags from home page.

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olakh

13 years ago

It can be happen do not worry optimize your site it will also show in ranking.