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Magento seo question. Nofollow on top links like cart/login?

While reading up on seo I thought to add no follows to default links that exist on every page. Cart. Login. Checkout. TC. Faq.

When looking up my site on Google using site:domain I realized that the top pages were the ones that have links in headers and footers.

By adding rel=nofollow to functional links like cart/login/etc all the seo juice is given only to relevant category and content pages (that dofollow).

Question:
Is this smart to do seo wise? And how can this be done via xml or Phtml using no follow? Or can it be tackled via robots?

Many thanks
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Best Answer

Of course, the best practice would be to put nofollow, noindex on the meta tags and maybe exclude the page(s) in robots.txt. It is not really necessary but just to keep it all clean and tidy i would suggest doing it.

Here is a good explanation how to do it, in case you don´t know http://doejo.com/blog/magento-how-to-add-noindex-nofollow-robots-meta-tag-or-change-meta-title-or-description-on-certain-pages/#.VObxGPmG_HU

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Magento – Change position of Cart Link in Top Links

The position is hardcoded in /app/code/core/Mage/Checkout/Block/Links.php:

$parentBlock->addLink($text, 'checkout/cart', $text, true, array(), 50, null, 'class="top-link-cart"');

The cart is pos 50 and the checkout link is pos 60. So maybe the easiest way is to position all top.links below 50. But to place just the cart link at the end you would have to rewrite the addCartLink() method.

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You can also remove some of the top links in your local.xml by referencing them and removing them by name.

<reference name="top.links">
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</reference>

This only work if the top link was created with a name like this:

<reference name="top.links">
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   <action method="addLinkBlock"><blockName>wishlist_link</blockName></action>
</reference>

For the log in and log out, since they aren't called with a "name", you can't remove it this way.

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