About the only place it makes sense to use the "nofollow" attribute of the anchor/link tag is in whatever template you may use to display the hosted free sites or free hosted galleries supplied by your sponsors, or in any other links to sponsor tours. Don't use "nofollow" on your hardlink trades with other site owners, and don't use it on links to free sites and galleries that are submitted to you.
Yes, there are some other ways you can use the "nofollow" attribute to focus more attention from the SE spiders onto the pages you want them to see, but that's probably nothing you'll need to spend time worrying about if you're just getting started.
It's hard to get toolbar PR when you're starting out with a new site on a new domain. Besides, that's only 1 of at least 3 kinds of PR and may be the least important. So work on what's really important in the meantime:
- Improve your index page design and content before you add any more link trades there.
- Add a lot more content to your main page and your category pages. Then get some link trades on your category pages.
- Also, clean up your meta keyword tags. Don't use the same contents in that tag on all your pages. Don't use the same keyword more than about 3 times in the keyword tag. Do customize the keyword tag contents to match what is actually on that specific page (not your site).
- And do write different meta description tags for each page, and again, make the description specific to that individual page.
Aside from doing those things, read all you can on this board and use the search function here to see what's been said about the things you want to know. Then ask more questions and someone around here will always try to help when they can.
