We learned a few weeks ago that it’s important to turn off the pagerank leaking from your links. All you do is add a rel=”nofollow” tag to the link and you don’t send any link juice to that site. Josh’s post on Common SEO mistakes talks about the leaking taps with blogrolls links.
So, we went through our widgets and added the nofollow tag to places that we didn’t want to send our pagerank juice. Turns out we missed a few. How do we know?
Well, when we installed the free SEO Plugin for Firefox to help us with our keyword research for article marketing, we discovered a very cool feature. It has the option to highlight any links that are nofollow! Just click on Tools > SEO for Firefox > Options, and you can change the colour of the highlight!
So, when we visit our webdiggin site, we can see which links have the pagerank juice turned off. (Affiliate links do not need the pagerank juice turned on. )
It’s interesting to note that the Google Ads have the pagerank turned on… I wonder if running Pay Per Click ads on Google to your blog can improve your pagerank.
This also helps us to find blogs that are blogger friendly. (We’re making a list of blogs that send you page rank juice in the comment links.)
Bottom Line: If you haven’t installed the free SEO Plugin for Firefox, then do it now. That way you can see which of your links is leaking page rank, and you can plug it up.
Question: Do you think about SEO at all when you blog? What SEO tools do you use to help improve your pagerank? (We have a PageRank of 0, so any advice you have would be greatly appreciated…)
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April 6th, 2008 at 3:49 am
I’m a little naive here!
Will linking to poor quality sites bring me down with them?
Forest Parks’s last blog post..Experiment update
April 7th, 2008 at 12:28 am
… I don’t know.
I want to say no. Most of the stuff I’ve read says that your pagerank is determined by the number of links pointing at your site and the quality of those links…
But, something in the back of my mind thinks that somewhere I read that you shouldn’t just point your site anywhere.
I think the way it works with your links is lets say that this page has a pagerank of 5. If there is one link leading out of that page, it has a value of PR5. If you have 5 links coming out, then you share the link juice so each link has 1/5 of the page rank. (I don’t know if that means each link has a PR of 1 or not, but people keep telling me that if I have links going to places that aren’t important or are already authority sites, I should turn off the linkjuice with a rel=”nofollow” tag to keep that link juice sent to other places.
So, if you have a lot of internal links pointing to your own site, then you keep most of your pagerank, instead of leaking it out.
But, this is the blind leading the blind. I need to go find out the answer to that myself. If you hear something, let us know!