Comments on: Is Your Website Leaking PageRank?

By: tim

tim — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:44:01 +0000

A quick tool I like to use to check for stuff I may have missed is http://www.sitefile.org/seo/velvetblues.com.htm

As you can see velvetblues.com has no leakage and is right on top of the SEO game they even validate through WC3 unlike 80% of the sites out there!

By: rhythm

rhythm — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:01:02 +0000

Also, forgot to ask, what is the value of having or not having the Tag Cloud on a blog…all those random different-sized blue words. Many blogs include it, so it must have some good effect somehow, but what’s the definitive answer?

By: rhythm

rhythm — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:58:35 +0000

Thanks guys, but I’m not getting the concept of how lots of links pointing OFF your site would “leak pagerank”, as long as you have plenty of good-quality one-way backlinks coming INTO your site. Further explanation?

By: Udegbunam Chukwudi

Udegbunam Chukwudi — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:41:36 +0000

@Kurt: as velvet says function.php is better but here's another way without plug-ins. It involves getting dirty with one of the wordpress installation files. Check out How To NoFollow Blogroll Links

By: Richael Neet

Richael Neet — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:15:08 +0000

Since the value of PR is being disputed, I deduced that why not make my blog do follow to attract more traffic and care less of PR updates. This action is showing results via increase in daily traffic.

By: Is The Top Commentator Plugin Worth It? - Web Development Blog

Is The Top Commentator Plugin Worth It? - Web Development Blog — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:09:44 +0000

[...] on every page. And while this is not bad, if the links are not nofollow links, then your website is leaking PageRank and could be hurting the overall position of your website in search [...]

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:55:55 +0000

@Nihar: Haha. I’m glad that I could help. Yes, adding nofollow is crucial. You still get to give external websites links and send them referral traffic, but you also get to trap your pagerank.

By: Nihar

Nihar — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:57:05 +0000

Great post. as i started reading this post. I immediately opened my footer and added nofollow to theme’s link. I have to somehow add nofollow problematically on non home page and remove them on home page for my blogroll that would achieve the #1.

By: Kurt Avish

Kurt Avish — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:59:10 +0000

Thanks. I’ll have a look.

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:41:52 +0000

@Kurt: Well, when I’ve done it on sites, I’ve just manually edited the theme’s function.php file to add a filter… So I personally haven’t used a plugin for this.

But here is one that looks promising: http://blog.andrewshell.org/wordpress-plugins/nofollow-links

I am sure that there are others.

By: Kurt Avish

Kurt Avish — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:23:07 +0000

Nice post. My blog roll is quite long and it will be a bit unfair if I remove it as they are all my friends who have link back to me who are on it. However you know of a way that I can nofollow the blogrolls links only? ANy plugin for it?

I want to leave the blogroll there itself but nofollow the links.

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:30:02 +0000

@Jackie: Well, everyone starts somewhere. So you are allowing your internal pagerank to increase by trapping it on your website and not linking too much to other sites.

@Kim: Yes, many people have taken that approach as well, putting the blogroll on the index. That way the blogroll is seen by everyone, but it isn’t siphoning off pagerank on every page. And, one added benefit is that you have more sidebar real estate to play with.

Yes, I use nofollow on a case by case as well. Although, I did originally use a plugin that added nofollow to all links so I had been a bit stingy with pagerank in the past.

By: Kim Woodbridge

Kim Woodbridge — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:48:13 +0000

What would be the best way to only keep the blogroll on one page? I guess it would be best to have it on the main index and not on the single posts page.

I used to follow every link because I didn’t know any better. I use nofollow now on a case by case basis.

By: Jackie

Jackie — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:16:17 +0000

Yeh, I didn’t add any links to my blogroll because I found out about this pagerank problem. Although, I don’t have much page rank, so it probably doesn’t matter anyway.