Use Of Nofollow On An Internal Link

Nofollow is sometimes used in internal linking of website to stop the pagerank flow to unimportant links. One can add nofollow for the internal pages such as Contact us, privacy policy, company profile pages which tells search engines that the links may be a non relevant or unimportant. In such case the page rank won't be transferred to such internal pages. In other words to stop link juice from flowing to minor pages like Terms and Conditions or privacy policy.

Difference between PageRank and Toolbar PageRank

Pagerank : More the no. of websites are linking to your domain, higher will be site's pagerank and its the real pagerank. It is updated in real time so if your website gets a few links pointing today, the real pagerank will be increased as soon as the spider will find these links.


Toolbar PageRank: If you install Google toolbar you will see the toolbar pagerank value. Toolbar pagerank is updated only a few times a year.