Comments on: SEO – Link Building Series: Arrest Page Rank leak & Optimize Your WordPress Blog

By: ken the tech

ken the tech — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:09:46 +0000

I’ve got a penalty by Google because of the big number of inner links I have on my wordpress blog pages. Fortunately after applying your tips I’ll be back in serps. I’m especially interested to add rel nofollow to a part of sidebar links (I have top articles, top visited posts, etc).

Thanks mate!

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By: Kawika

Kawika — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:26:14 +0000

I am concerned that your new nofollow link policy will largely be negated by Google’s new nofollow policy – http://thenexus.tk/google-new-nofollow-policy/

By: Television Spy

Television Spy — Sun, 10 May 2009 06:43:25 +0000

Believe it or not you can over-optimize and google penalizes for this. Excessive usage of nofollow has been proven unofficially to be demerit link authority. Few case studies done – look up the seo sultan for more info.

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By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:14:42 +0000

@bachtiar, thanks buddy… Try some of these stop-follow measures to see if it helps with your next PR update at all

By: bachtiar

bachtiar — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:10:17 +0000

Awesome Ajith..... the new things that ive learn today is put nofollow on top nav bar link...yeah youre right..it doesn't need a SE visibillity...so why we just put a nofollow there... while once its indexed it will be stay on SE *CMIIW*once again thanks matebachtiar's last blog post... Hasil akhir SEO challenge 2009

By: WuWu

WuWu — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:10:51 +0000

Very nice post, thanks!!!

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 02:51:54 +0000

@sunil, you are welcome buddy…

By: sunil

sunil — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 06:22:28 +0000

HI Ajith Bhaiya once againSeriously u r giving us such a wonderful information.sunil's last blog post... Baba was Akalkot Maharaj

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:37:41 +0000

@Jun, thank you for your visit and encouraging comment. I checked your blog. It’s awesome!

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By: Jun Dimaano

Jun Dimaano — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:53:17 +0000

I just came across your blog about SEO and wanted to drop you a note telling you how impressed I was with the information you have posted here. I also have a web site & blog about SEO so I know I'm talking about when I say your site is top-notch! Keep up the great work, you are providing a great resource on the Internet here!

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:01:49 +0000

@Kim, thanks… In fact, this is an experiment to check if even by sealing unwanted internal leakage, we can improve the PR… Unfortunately the success can be measured only by SERPs improvements or a PR4 comes through this time

@Odzyskiwanie Danych, Yes… that’s also a tip for writing paid reviews – to push all the backlinks they are asking for below the ‘more’ tag

@Binaryday, Nope, the crawlability is not sacrificed as I am sealing unwanted or duplicate paths. e.g. Read more, category link under each post where as categories are already there on the sidebar.

I know, category pages do rank better sometimes, but how many times do they get SE hits? very rarely.

As for the PR division logic, I sincerely do not know much about it. However, I feel that lower the outbound dofollow links, the better for you… What say?

@Nihar, cool… I am glad that the post was of practical use to you.

@Kurt, if you want selected links as nofollow, there is another fix for that. Basically, you need to add yet another proprerty (checkbox selection) in the link edit page. This is done by editing the edit-link-form.php file.

@Dennis, great… I am on a homepage cleanup spree as well.

@Samrat, thanks… I hope PR5 is in the vicinity for you

Thanks for your comments, everyone!

By: TechnoSamrat

TechnoSamrat — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:14:56 +0000

Wow really a very good post ajith.. I also need to make some changes wrt to the links..TechnoSamrat's last blog post... Copy Video & Audio Files From Browser Cache With VideoCacheView

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By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:31:51 +0000

Wow! I never wold have thought of some of these. Especially things like the link on the author name under each post title or the read more links; never never.This is just too cool. If you've been reading recent posts you know I'm embarking on a big "fix it" journey of my 3 blogs, starting with internal including link stuff; this is perfect to add!Dennis Edell's last blog post... Best “Blog Improvement Review” Contest - 1 Winner - $100 via Paypal

By: Kurt Avish

Kurt Avish — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:21:46 +0000

Thanks for this one. I really needed one on how to nofollow the blogroll. Gonna work on this.Kurt Avish's last blog post... Nick.com KCA Kids Choice Award Voting Is Open

By: Nihar

Nihar — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:15:33 +0000

Ajith, Great post. I have done my self for the blog roll. Removing no follow in all pages except Home page. I will refer this to implement in top commentator plugin asap.Thanks again for the informative post.Nihar's last blog post... February 2009 Blog Traffic & Income statistics

By: Binaryday

Binaryday — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:49:42 +0000

Great post Ajith,

I will like to add a couple of points here
1. I hope you are not sacrificing crawlability by nofollowing so many internal links. Please remember that blogs rank better than static websites due to these internal links.

2. I have seen properly optimized category pages rank better than individual pages for many competitive keywords. Check your analytics before you nofollow your category pages

3. Finally I do not think that the PR of your homepage is impacted by how many links are there on your homepage. However how much of pagerank flows into each link is impacted by number of links. So if your homepage PR is 4 and you link to 100 pages, each page gets a PR boost of 0.04, whereas if you link to 50 pages then each page gets a PR boost of 0.08

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