Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
a. remove the link but leave the logo.
b. modify the pic's alt tag in order for it to gain certain weight.(Googlebot still doesnt understand images right ? but would treat this as a normal link.)
c. adding "rel=nofollow" to the link.
If you can please respond on all 3 situations because i'm facing these problems:
The homepage has very little content and i need to tweak it max. Most of it is under the fold and after some lame aboutus.html links that surely don't help. More and more people say that on a page the first link pointing to one of your subpages (assuming you got more links to that subpage) is the one that really counts.
So on page A you got link1 and link2. If link1 appears before link2 in the html code of the page then link1's anchor text is the one that matters.(not fully 100% on this but tests kind of show it and seems logical / forces you from using 100 links on 1 page i guess).
Having this said i need to know for sure how will this link(maybe others too) will affect my rankings and if i should move the text above the fold using css and other tips like trying to get <h1> noticed earlier.
I know it's a lot of handwriting but please leave me your replies !
May the Seo GoD watch over you.
a. Don't have the Home Page link to itself. On other pages, yes, linking the logo is a good idea.
b. Modifying the alt attribute for home page links no longer seems to give the keyword boost that it once did - and some people have even reported apparent penalties. It's best to have the alt attribute reproduce the text in the logo.
c. rel="nofollow" is a very wrong idea in this situation. It removes the link from Google's web graph and it loses any effect in the ranking algo. You don't want to be telling Google that you can't vouch for the wesbite's Home Page!
You could also consider positioning the entire header div with CSS, so that it can be placed at the end and the source code can begin with something more important. This approach has been called "source ordered content" and at one point is was almost magic. Today, it's not quite so special but it still can help.
Anyone else?
Individual pages need corrections so they do not provide links to themsleves (basic). Generally a result of page creation with templates in place.
