Should we add no follow to the footer links?

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Ramya Venkat: Hi all,
  
  One of my client website has text links at bottom of the page which has the same text and anchor page as on the top menu. I suggested that this may not look good for search bots but the clients likes those bottom text  ;links and he does not want it removed. ;
  
  In this case, is there any way ro make those text and links not crawl able? I have heard that if we add no follow to the bottom links still bots could crawl them.  ;Please suggest if you have any ideas for this?
  
  Thanks ;
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  hari babu: my suggestion is  ;only one way that is to change content for your better ranking.Because of google major focus on only content
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  Dave Elliott: add a rel nofollow tag to the links.
  e.g ;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mysite.com/">my slightly spammy link</a>
  
  it will still be crawled but google should(mostly anyway, certainly will ignore it a lot more than a normal link!) ignore it for ranking purposes.
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  Jim Munro: Not sure, Dave. :)
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  Ramya Venkat: +Jim Munro ;I too have read that adding a nofollow doe snot bring any change. Do you have any better option?
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  Jim Munro: I think that because these are internal links, you should feel free  ;to use and place them in any way you want without concern. If Crazy Egg says they are being clicked, then they should stay there, otherwise they are a waste of space and should go for that reason.
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  Edwin Jonk: From the expert panel in this weeks SEO Questions hangout on air on 02:29:32 into the YouTube video: https://dumbseoquestions.com/q/should_we_add_no_follow_to_the_footer_links +Ramya Venkat
  
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  Ryan Cramer: If I may suggest something, If you log into your analytics account and go to In-page Analytics under Behavior, you can see a graphical representation of how people are using the footer links.  ;Sometimes the nav links aren't descriptive enough for users to click, or the user actually reads down to the footer and is interested in more.
  
   ;As Jim noted, onsite links generally should be ok to omit the nofollow.  ;If you don't have a noindex/nofollow on the page they get to, that attribute carries little weight the way that the analytics scripting works.  ;
  
  If you want to control the link juice that John was talking about, you would need to add the nofollow to all links pointing to the unwanted pages, a meta tag for nofollow, and for safe measure a Disallow to the robots.txt.
  
  And, of course, as Rob pointed out, as long as you aren't stuffing keywords in the repeated links, you should be ok.  ;Since you don't want them at all, I'm fairly certain that's not your intent.
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  Ramya Venkat: +Jim Munro ;+Ryan Cramer ;Thanks a ton fr your responses. I check the inpage analytics and found that the bottom links are getting a lot of clicks. I am not removing these links I've hanged my mind :)
  
  +Ryan Cramer - We dont stuff keywords for links, we want to do SEO in a genuine way :) ;