After reviewing my content keywords in Webmaster Tools, it seems that Google is identifying the text in non-relevant links as keywords. Is it acceptable practice to implement rel=nofollow within the script of these links?
Is it acceptable SEO to have rel=nofollow on internal links that are not part of my keyword strategy?
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Like I said (dramatically and poorly) in my comments, it is not an acceptable practice. nofollow is designed for webmasters to disavow links on their own website that they do not have editorial control over. The best example of this are blogs with links to the websites of commentors. This was a common source of spam and this allows blogs to allow the users to include those links but they have no SEO value. That is not the case here.Using nofollow to attempt to manipulate how Google crawls and views your site is a bad plan. Just because Google sees those keywords on your site doesn't mean it doesn't see the other keywords you are trying to rank well for. It sees all of them. And those internal links are helpful for Google to find and index your pages so they're good to have.If you can't change the anchor text to better keywords then leave everything alone. 