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Will the external links at footer menu take away PR?

by michealtech
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Hi all,

We are about add DMCA badge with link at our footer menu. Will this link take way Page rank? What if these links are follow or nofollow? What's Google been employing about sending link juice to external links these days?

Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author zeyfah
    make external links nofollow.

    google will pass link juice to links with dofollow. but if they find out that the links are paid links, those dofollow links will hurt your website's credibility
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by zeyfah View Post

      make external links nofollow.

      google will pass link juice to links with dofollow. but if they find out that the links are paid links, those dofollow links will hurt your website's credibility
      Do not add nofollow to the links. That's just dumb. There is no benefit. A link through a DMCA badge is a legit link.

      Links do not take away PR from the page they are on. What they do is make all the other links on the page weaker. The PR, authority, relevance, linkjuice, and any other term you can think of that a page passes on through its links gets divided up among the links on the page. The more links there are, the weaker each link is going to be.

      Going along with that, not all links are equal either.There are a bunch of factors that go into determining the strength of a link, but generally speaking links in the footer are weaker than links in the header.
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      • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
        Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

        Do not add nofollow to the links. That's just dumb. There is no benefit. A link through a DMCA badge is a legit link.

        Links do not take away PR from the page they are on. What they do is make all the other links on the page weaker. The PR, authority, relevance, linkjuice, and any other term you can think of that a page passes on through its links gets divided up among the links on the page. The more links there are, the weaker each link is going to be.

        Going along with that, not all links are equal either.There are a bunch of factors that go into determining the strength of a link, but ge.nerally speaking links in the footer are weaker than links in the header.
        Maybe I'm wrong, but you seem to contradict yourself here. You say NOT to nofollow the link and then say that it will make the other links on the page slightly weaker if you leave it as a followed link.

        Not that I think you are wrong; I think the explanation is missing for why you don't mind the other links becoming slightly weaker by leaving the DCMA badge as a followed link. We leave it as followed because that is an important link that you want search engines to know about because it makes your site more trustworthy. That is more important than losing a modicum of "link juice". I would be sure that the link opened in a separate tab or window, just in case it doesn't right now.
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        • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
          Originally Posted by dave_hermansen View Post

          Maybe I'm wrong, but you seem to contradict yourself here. You say NOT to nofollow the link and then say that it will make the other links on the page slightly weaker if you leave it as a followed link.

          Not that I think you are wrong; I think the explanation is missing for why you don't mind the other links becoming slightly weaker by leaving the DCMA badge as a followed link. We leave it as followed because that is an important link that you want search engines to know about because it makes your site more trustworthy. That is more important than losing a modicum of "link juice". I would be sure that the link opened in a separate tab or window, just in case it doesn't right now.
          Because adding nofollow doesn't conserve the linkjuice. It still flows out the link, it just doesn't get passed onto the page being linked to. It's basically dropped off into a black hole.

          Nofollow used to conserve linkjuice, but Google changed that several years ago.

          Personally, I wouldn't link to any DMCA notice at all, but if you do, there is no benefit to adding nofollow.
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          • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
            Good job! That's an explanation I think most folks can live with :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author savidge4
    As an added to this... Linkjuice is NOT equal across all the links on a page. Stronger at the top and weaker at the bottom. There are some indications that Links in your standard everyday wordpress page that are in the sidebar or footer, may actually carry nothing at all.

    If for example you are trying to do yourself a favor with onpage SEO with inner site linking, you are better to place these links towards the top of a page - this will pass more than it would if the link was at the bottom of the page.
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