3 replies to this topic

[cre8pc]

Is there a reason from the SEO perspective to block a search engine from following a link to one's company Facebook page and their shopping cart?

[jonbey]

No idea about carts, but my Facebook Page ranks for my brand which helps to keep the spammers and trademark thieves out the way. I assume it would not rank so well if I did not link to it / nofollowed my links.

I did nofollow FB and Twitter once, but then decided against it. The reasons for nofollow, according to Google at least are for paid links or links to neighbourhoods / websites that you do not trust. My SM pages do not fall under either of those so I let the link juice flow.

In fact, on the first page of Google for my domain / brand there is:

me
twitter
me
google+
me
facebook
pinterest

That, I think, is good.

[DonnaFontenot]

Only reason I can think of is it hoard pagerank, and that hasn't been a good idea in years.

[tommr]

I don't know about Facebook by as for the cart, but some time back I read a blog post by Matt Cutts who suggested that if the extra material ie; cart, did not add to the visitor experience that maybe it could be tagged. Trouble is they never say for sure, and whether the cart adds to the visitor experience is ambiguous at best.
Maybe I will check out some of my page one competitors and see if some of their cart pages are indexed.