Hello,
My website is
http://le-meilleur-du-golf.com/
my question is: Does the links in the Footer (menu footer) at the very bottom of the page count for SEO, or this is something in the Theme code that prevents google from referencing those, and giving SEO juice to the related pages?
Thanks a lot
Google follows all links on your pages, even if set to rel=”nofollow” … internal links on your site to your own pages do help your “link juice,” but not to external sites if on “all pages” as that is spammy. This is not theme related; all sites often have used footer links to make navigation throughout a site easier when somebody hits bottom of page (so not needing to scroll to top to see top menu again, or side menu).
There is nothing in the theme that prevents Google from following the links on your pages, or the footer, or the header, or the sidebar, etc.
You may have custom settings in Yoast WordPress SEO – or similar – which can control which elements are not followed (such as nofollow internal links), or which hide pages from your XML sitemap.
The thing is, Google now looks at your XML sitemap, if available to determine what content to index, its “priority” and to build the custom results in search, where for your site it would show things like your “about us” page and “editorial staff” as primary information pages; this is also where the footer links can help.
Footer links to external sites should be rel=nofollow.
Hello Chris,
thanks a lot, this answers my question
Cheers
