nofollow for Legal Pages

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When optimizing your website for SEO, is it necessary or recommended to add a nofollow tag to your legal pages? Here's why it's not something you need to worry too much about. Read our related blog post here: https://termsfeed.com/blog/nofollow-legal-pages/

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• Nofollow
• SEO

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• Publié par: termsfeed
• Publié le: 03 octobre 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• Licence : Tous droits réservés
• Langue: English

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nofollow for legal pages

Adding arel=nofollowtag is common when it comes to advertising links, paid links and other links that shouldn’t be ranked by search engines such as Google.

Should you use it for your legal pages, such as your Privacy Policy, a Terms of Use agreement or a disclaimer?

While leading search engine Google doesn’t give a specific answer, it does give some guidance that hasn’t changed much since 2009.

First, Google stresses that the decision to add this tag is one that each website owner must individually consider.

Quality content is more important when it comes to search engine ranking than having arel=nofollowtag in place with links such as legal agreements.

Next, Google recommends that you ask yourself how important these pages are to your users.

APrivacy Policyis required by numerous laws and people are caring about their online privacy more than ever these days.

This means your Privacy Policy is a rather important page, and adding therel=nofollowtag may not be recommended.

While aTerms and Conditionsagreement isn’t legally required, these agreements areveryhelpful for your users.

This is especially true for ecommerce websites or sites that provide a paid service.

Disclaimerscan include very important information that users should know, such as information that you aren’t a medical professional or that an activity may be dangerous.

Because of this, aref=nofollowtag isn’t necessary for a Terms and Conditions or Disclaimer page.

A common worry is that without aref=nofollowtag your legal pages may get too much of your search engine weight and affect rankings of your other pages.

Know this: Google and other search engines know that these types of pages are standard. They know how much weight to give them.

Leaving theref=nofollowtag off of your legal pages links won’t affect your overall ranking.