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Multiple links linking to your home page on every page of your site -& the SEO effect

by DLO7357b
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Suppose your logo, a link in your footer area and a link on your top navigation bar (across your entire site) all link to your home page.
<a href="myhomePage.com">Shopping Home Page</a> // home page link in navigation bar
<a href="myhomePage.com"> <img src="Shopping-logo.jpg"></a> // logo link to home page
<a href="myhomePage.com">Home</a> // link to home page in footer

Will you get an SEO penalty for this? Should you use the nofollow in one or two of those links? Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Originally Posted by DLO7357b View Post

    Suppose your logo, a link in your footer area and a link on your top navigation bar (across your entire site) all link to your home page.
    <a href="myhomePage.com">Shopping Home Page</a> // home page link in navigation bar
    <a href="myhomePage.com"> <img src="Shopping-logo.jpg"></a> // logo link to home page
    <a href="myhomePage.com">Home</a> // link to home page in footer

    Will you get an SEO penalty for this? Should you use the nofollow in one or two of those links? Thanks!
    You will not get a penalty. You are diluting the strength of all of your internal links though. I would get rid of the footer link. It's useless.

    You should not use nofollow for internal links. That would be stupid.
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    • Profile picture of the author patco
      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

      You will not get a penalty. You are diluting the strength of all of your internal links though. I would get rid of the footer link. It's useless.

      You should not use nofollow for internal links. That would be stupid.
      Yes, I do agree with you. I also did this for almost all my sites, nofollow tag would be useful if you sell for example a template and would like to add a link to the footer! It's just like a backlink to your homepage.. Then, it would be a good idea to make it Nofollow!
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    If you're using internal links....why do it like that? Contextual links work a hell of a lot better on all platforms, including your own.

    Why not focus on that then?
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