Andy Coates Blog

Next page rank update?

Courtney Tuttle recently wrote a great article on preparing for the next Page Rank update which is estimated for around august and discussed the merits of incoming and outgoing links from blogs. I am not going to bother going through the whole article here as Court does and excellent job explaining the Page rank Principle.

Basically, in a nutshell Google rates your blogs PageRank depending on the amount of incoming and outgoing links to your site. and assumes that if you have more incoming links to your site than outgoing links you are worthy of a decent PageRank. There are may other factors which contribute to PageRank such as the PR of the blogs linking to you and if these are one way links etc. To learn more about Googles algorithms and methods take a look at the Page Rank Wiki.Due

to the way Google calculates PageRank, Court suggests adding "no-follow" to any non relevant or duplicated outgoing links. Since I am using the sociable plugin I have 6 outgoing links at the bottom of every post linking to sociable linking sites, thats 6 outgoing links from my site which I could do without Google following.

If you run the Sociable plugin and would like to ad "no-follow" to these outgoing links it is well worth installing the "Anti-sociable-plugin" which is nearly identical to sociable just with an extra line of code which adds rel=”nofollow” to each of the outgoing url's. You can download this hacked version of the Anti-social-plugin from Andy Beards site here, Hacked wordpress plugins.I

am going to trawl through my entire site over the next week and see which other outgoing links I can no-follow, I'm not going to rob anyone of link love, that would just be mean, I'm just going through outgoing sponsor-links etc.

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