Busby SEO Test – Preserving Your PageRank
January 14, 2009, filed under Blogging Insights
In this article, I’d like to know your opinion about using the nofollow attribute in links you don’t need to them to rank high
PageRank is one of the aspects Google takes into valuation when determining a page’s SERP. The better its PageRank, the higher its possibility to sit on the top placement of SERP. There are loads of articles explaining how to get a high PageRank already but there are less which tell us to preserve them.
In my partaking in Busby SEO Test, I’m trying to limit the amount of values passed by outgoing links in order to preserve the original page’s rank and keeping the value passed high.
The action is based on two most common theories about how an outgoing link affects the page it comes from or the page it leads to.
The first hypothesis states that the more outgoing links a page has, the less PageRank that page will be. In this case, the outgoing link influences its origin.
A second thought declares that no matter how much the outgoing links will be, the page’s rank stays. The number of outgoing links will have an effect on themselves. For example, page A has 5 outgoing links. Therefore, each link will only get 1/5 of the whole value passed throughout the links on page A while the rank of that page remains unchanged.
As uncertain as which one above reflects Google’s algorithm, the following may be applied. It combines both opinions where the amount of links affects the page where they come from and at the same time determines the value of each outgoing link carries.
Based on those possibilities, I tried to anticipate the decrease of my Busby SEO Test page’s rank and limit the number of outgoing links carrying link juice. However, since there are pages I required to link no matter what, I added the attribute nofollow to the link tag. The links than can be outed from your priority list are such as, the edit article link, the RSS subscription link, the affiliate banners, the tag archive links, the bookmarking links, edit comment link and more.
In your opinion, is it worth doing? Does adding nofollow affect your page’s rank much? Or, does having a lot of nofollow tags can harm your rank?
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To be honest, I’m not sure I know the answer. I used to think that limiting the google juice leaving a site would have a positive effect on page rank but have never seen any concrete results from my own experimenting to back them up.
On the other hand, following links encourages the owners of those sites to sometimes link back which is, of course, a positive result.
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