: Outbound links in footer. Impact on SEO? On one of my websites, the terms of conditions, rules and all the other standard notifications are stored on a "parent comany" website. So basically
On one of my websites, the terms of conditions, rules and all the other standard notifications are stored on a "parent comany" website.
So basically they are outbound links. Because they are in the footer, they are considered outbound links to another website.
Will Google or other search engines consider this spam or something similar?
Do you think it would be better or even recommended to nofollow these links? It's easy to nofollow but I am afraid Google will actually see THAT ( nofollowing a lot of links ) as spam, so I wanted to make sure and ask first.
I know it would be easier to store these pages on my domain, but it's not possible because they need to be on the main company's website so i need to just keep them as outbound links.
Should i nofollow them or what do you recommend ?
Thank you
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First off, Google encourages nofollow links for when they apply. They are not going to beat you up for following their recommendations.
There is a bit of a conflict here:
Google at one point flat-out said not to make links in footers to other sites. However, on the other hand it also said that it is reasonable that a company would want to link brand sites back to the parent company and therefore will not punish these sites as long as they are reasonable in their actions. Google is only concerned with links that are unnatural and not a reasonable thing to do.
The webmaster guidelines says:
Widely distributed links in the footers or templates of various sites.
This applies to link schemes designed to build authority in a manipulative way. You are not doing this. In fact you are doing a reasonable thing.
Google uses semantics almost throughout it's entire operation. As part of this, it creates clusters (semantics term) that ties sites into relationships as well as brands, contact information, and so on. With this, Google can see that you are linking to a "terms and conditions" page from your brand and product sites rather than copying the page on multiple sites. This is a reasonable thing to do and Google can see this.
You are worrying too much.
You are doing something that is reasonable and normal within the web. This is your right to do. If you change these links to nofollow, this is also a reasonable thing to do and also your right to do. Google does not make the rules on the web and must work within the same set of rules that applies to all of us. If you are manipulating search by building authority in an unnatural way, then Google has the right to ignore your site. But if you are being reasonable and doing what is a reasonable thing to do, then Google would be foolish to punish your site.
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