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edited Apr 13, 2017 at 12:33

In addition to John Conde's answer John Conde's answer, I'd add the following points:

You should try and keep the anchor text consistent on links to the same page - this strengthens that term for the linked page.
The only time you should use nofollow on internal links is if they are to pages you really don't want indexed (say admin pages, sign-up, etc) or to "duplicated" content - for example if your site creates URLs for tags, sometimes you might want to exclude them from search results as the content is the same as the post page - however these should be backed up with noindex meta on the linked pages so direct entry doesn't index them either - these are the sort of links that could cause very large loops, so it's advisable to restrict them.

In addition to John Conde's answer, I'd add the following points:

You should try and keep the anchor text consistent on links to the same page - this strengthens that term for the linked page.
The only time you should use nofollow on internal links is if they are to pages you really don't want indexed (say admin pages, sign-up, etc) or to "duplicated" content - for example if your site creates URLs for tags, sometimes you might want to exclude them from search results as the content is the same as the post page - however these should be backed up with noindex meta on the linked pages so direct entry doesn't index them either - these are the sort of links that could cause very large loops, so it's advisable to restrict them.

In addition to John Conde's answer, I'd add the following points:

You should try and keep the anchor text consistent on links to the same page - this strengthens that term for the linked page.
The only time you should use nofollow on internal links is if they are to pages you really don't want indexed (say admin pages, sign-up, etc) or to "duplicated" content - for example if your site creates URLs for tags, sometimes you might want to exclude them from search results as the content is the same as the post page - however these should be backed up with noindex meta on the linked pages so direct entry doesn't index them either - these are the sort of links that could cause very large loops, so it's advisable to restrict them.

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created Nov 4, 2011 at 13:53

In addition to John Conde's answer, I'd add the following points:

You should try and keep the anchor text consistent on links to the same page - this strengthens that term for the linked page.
The only time you should use nofollow on internal links is if they are to pages you really don't want indexed (say admin pages, sign-up, etc) or to "duplicated" content - for example if your site creates URLs for tags, sometimes you might want to exclude them from search results as the content is the same as the post page - however these should be backed up with noindex meta on the linked pages so direct entry doesn't index them either - these are the sort of links that could cause very large loops, so it's advisable to restrict them.