no follow internal links help

by elliec
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I have been tearing my hair out wondering why a 3 year old blog with tons of good, original content and 71 internal links has a PR 0. Before Panda we had a PR 2 but then it dropped and has never come back. Two things I discovered today that may have an affect 1) the Contact Us page had disappeared, it is in admin panel as a page but not showing on the site, and 2) all internal links are no follow. The no follow links would not have been deliberate, how does this happen and how can I go back and make sure they are all do follow?

Thanks for any help...

ellie
#follow #internal #links
  • Profile picture of the author Michael Nguyen
    We need more information about why your internal links are no follow. What site platform are you using? Is it a CMS? No one can really say why your PR has decreased, maybe its the quality of your backlinks. Ultimately what is your website traffic like? Has it decreased? Has your rankings decreased? PR is a loose metric so it's not reliable unless you use it to sell links which is another matter.

    More info please...
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    • Profile picture of the author elliec
      Thanks Michael, it is a wordpress site. And maybe the no follow issue is not a problem but I would like to fix it. I did not deliberately make the links no follow and would like to know how to change them. Traffic has decreased somewhat but I have not been very good at keeping up with content lately which has something to do with that.

      I am about to change the things and want to make sure everything in the admin is right.

      Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Nguyen
    PM me your link and I'll have a look at it tomorrow if thats alright.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      It's easy why your PR dropped. PR is taken from backlinks.
      Internal backlinks are golden. Eliminate these with a nofollow,
      and boom. PR wiped out or at least declines.

      I do believe that internal links in WP are automatically done
      without adding the nofollow attribute.

      You or something would have had to make some change
      for it to start putting a nofollow on links.

      If you started doing internal linking by comments, blogroll,
      or something similar, (for some strange reason) it could happen.

      Something could have been placed in the <head> section to
      make all links on the page nofollow.

      Stranger things happen to the best of us. I left out a <? for
      a line of php code and pulled my hair out for a friggin week.

      Nofollow on internal links would only affect PR and should
      not effect traffic, assuming you have a somewhat authoritative
      blog. Nofollow does not mean noindex or de-index.

      Paul
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      If you were disappointed in your results today, lower your standards tomorrow.

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  • Profile picture of the author jakartawebosting
    if you are using wordpress, you can fix it with plugin
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