Link to internal pages w/o passing juice ? Topic is solved

[goble]

Hello,

I have a photography website (with > than 2k pages). I have a few pages which I want to prioritize for SEO (over others).

Example: One of the main pages will talk about a topic let's say "Architecture in London" with quality texts. The page will also list photos (> 100) about this theme. These photos are relatively small i.e. 600px width and will display 4 in a row with their titles. This is the page I want to prioritize for SEO.

Each photo (of the main page above) is clickable and will bring to its specific page (i.e. A page dedicated to this photo where it will be displayed larger). On this page there will be some texts (not quality texts). I cannot afford to work on the texts since there are some 1,500 pages like this.

Question :
Am I draining out Pagerank from the main page because of the > 100 links which points the low quality pages ?
If so, should I use nofollow link on the main page to point to the specific photo pages ?

Thanks !

[Per Yngve Berg]

Are you using a Photo Gallery Component?

[goble]

Hello and thanks @Per

No, the photos are k2 items listed by k2 tags page, please check example here :

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https://explora.mu/photos-hd/albion

This page is what I want to rank for. Keywords : Albion Mauritius
But the 46 k2 items listed there have poor content (and for these pages I don't care to be ranked)

[geekkamal]

Hi goble, I'm Kamal j and I head the SEO department at GeekyAnts
From my experience, There're 2 instance here
1st = Pages in the same domain name ( example.com/page1, example.com/page2)
If your other pages are within the same domain address then you don’t need to worry about draining the page rank from the main page. That activity is called Internal linking and we should always link to important internal pages because that way google and other search engine crawlers will find it easy to crawl these links from the home page.

Recommended but not mandatory = Remember to add a 1st priority

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<priority>1.0</priority>

for the most important pages and secondary priority to least important pages

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<priority>0.9</priority>

. This will tell search engine crawlers to crawl the most important pages first. This practice is good for websites with high number of pages. You can also add the frequency for each of the pages if these pages gets updated frequently.

2nd condition= Pages are in different domain ( example.com, xyz.com)
If the other pages are in different domain then you should link the most important pages only and not all of them. You can use the

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rel=nofollow

tag for less important pages.

Let me know if you have any more doubts.

[goble]

Hello,

this makes sense, thanks !

[ascan]

Hello,

I have a photography website (with > than 2k pages). I have a few pages which I want to prioritize for SEO (over others).

Example: One of the main pages will talk about a topic let's say "Architecture in London" with quality texts. The page will also list photos (> 100) about this theme. These photos are relatively small i.e. 600px width and will display 4 in a row with their titles. This is the page I want to prioritize for SEO.

Each photo (of the main page above) is clickable and will bring to its specific page (i.e. A page dedicated to this photo where it will be displayed larger). On this page there will be some texts (not quality texts). I cannot afford to work on the texts since there are some 1,500 pages like this.

Question :
Am I draining out Pagerank from the main page because of the > 100 links which points the low quality pages ?
If so, should I use nofollow link on the main page to point to the specific photo pages ?

Thanks !

Hi @goble! It sounds like you're looking to prioritize certain pages on your photography website for SEO.

To answer your question, having over 100 links on your main page that point to low-quality pages could potentially drain PageRank from your main page. One solution could be to use nofollow links on the main page to point to the specific photo pages, which would prevent PageRank from being passed to those pages.

However, I would also recommend looking into ways to improve the quality of the text on those specific photo pages, even if you can't do it for all 1,500 pages at once. Quality content can be a major factor in SEO, so it's worth investing some time and effort into improving it.

Best of luck with your SEO efforts!