How to Control your site's page rank and its distribution?
Page Rank is a very important factor of a site's SEO. Now the question is that how to control and transfer it. For this purpose there is a very important tag we have which is most of the time neglected by webmasters and beginers.
What is a nofollow attribute?
NOFOLLOW is an attribute of <a> tag which tells google not to index/follow a certain url/link it is applied to. Normally a link's html code is written like this <a href="member.php"> or <a href="http://www.blastingart.com" target="blank">Blasting Art </a>. This simple code will open a new window and open the site blastingart.com in it.
Important Point!!
- Google or other search engines will leave your site and move forward to that link.
- Every outgoing link like the one discussed above shares your Page Rank.
This means that this website takes a share of your page's Page rank on which it is present. Now this is where no follow helps u protect your site's page rank and keep it for itself. Its written like this <a href="http://www.blastingart.com" rel="nofollow">Blasting Art </a>. Now this tag tells google that do not follow this link!!.. Makes sense? Lets get into a little more details.
Taking an example of a page with some in links, and one outbound link. i will make it as simple as possible. This is how the link structure will look like.
In this Diagram:
P1 is your homepage
P's are your site's other pages.
Arrows are your Page Rank Flow/distribution
O is the outbound link.
This diagram shows that Page Rank of your domain is distributed among your pages and one Outbound link. Now what u need to understand is a very important thing. Page Rank distribution among your site's pages is understandable because it will flow inside your site, but Page Rank flowing to another website is like a hole in a water tanker. Means your sharing your page rank with that website. In our Diagram's case Page Rank shared with "O" will be redistributed with links on its site, which will result in low page rank of your site.
This is where nofollow comes in action. All you need to do is to add a rel="nofollow" in that link structure. So your page rank wont be shared with anyother site.
Ok this was the control of page rank distribution with outbound links, external sites/pages. Now we will discuss that hwo can we improve our Site's Page Rank by improving the inner structure of our links through NOFOLLOW.
ok i will suggest take a look at this website www.blastingart.com this site have about 100+ links on its homepage because of teh categories links generation.(left side art categories.). Every category links shares page rank of the homepage/domain and wastes it!!! Wastes it means that these are non seo friendly links. All the category links are point to a page called ymedia.php but having different actions , IDs for each category. For example:
http://www.blastingart.com/ymedia.php?action=show_genre&iGenre=30
http://www.blastingart.com/ymedia.php?action=show_genre&iGenre=31
http://www.blastingart.com/ymedia.php?action=show_genre&iGenre=32
Now as u can see that in this situation its just one page all the links are distributing the page rank to and that is ymedia.php but with different IDs and genre. That meas a total waste of Home Page's Page Rank.
Important Action
- Add a rel="nofollow" attribute in every url like mentioned above.
- Add a rel="nofollow" attribute in every less important link.
- Add a rel="nofollow" attribute in every unnecessary link, like for example a social bookmarklet link or img, feedback form page etc.
Very Important Online Examples and results:
- Delicious.com , it is one of the leading bookmarking sites. You will notice that not even a single link on its homepage doesnt haev a nofollow attribute. All have it even to the inner pages, because the bookmarks, contents on teh homepage changes every minute. Thus as a result its domain have a page rank 8!!
- Mixx.com , Same case as Delicious.com's
- Digg.com, Same case
- Facebook.com , Each and every link you put on facebook, no matter where u put it, in notes, profiles, groups, pages all have a nofollow link.
Dont Hesitate to ask any question or critic anything!!
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well yes ur right. but to some extent controling the nofollow in teh internal site's link structure can improve your page rank
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No follow tags are a bummer for search engine optimization gurus. But there are some ways to get around them... For example, if you insert a link on your facebook page (which has no follow tags,) you can link to a 3rd party site that then links to your target site. This will increase your web presence through a inadvertent method. If you want to get really tricky, you can even insert a redirect on this 3rd party site that automatically sends visitors straight to your site.
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hmm. thts a good idea but still that 3rd party site wont be recieving any link link juice or any thing from facebook right? so not much of a help i guess
Thank you for this great information, it helped me this time.
Cheers and keep up the good work!
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Interesting article. You make some good points. Thank you again.
your welcome
nofollow-dofollow stuff
it's just made me crazy. :(
"This means that this website takes a share of your page's Page rank on which it is present."
What a pile of horse shit. If an outbound link gave away some PR then everyone would be nofollowing links. What actually happens is that the 'link juice' passed from P1 is split between P2-5 and O, so the pages losing out on PR are P2-5.
It doesn't dilute P1's PR at all, or steal any.
Have a look at http://pr.efactory.de/e-pagerank-algorithm.shtml
At no point in the algorithm does the outbound links on PR(A) become a factor in its pagerank calculation.
I suggest you go back to SEO school and stop spreading rubbish info, and sort your English out too while you're at it.
well yes ur right. but to some extent controling the nofollow in teh internal site's link structure can improve your page rank
This was a very informative, and helpful. I didn't understand about "nofollow" and regular links in the past, and how they work. Thanks to this I have a better understanding of the BIG picture. I won't be using or assisting a "no follow" website anymore now that I've learned what I know now. Our vote should be just as important, and should be relevant too.
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Hi, this nofollow, dofollow makes me confused. Which is better, nofollow or dofollow. Some say this, and some say that. There's even club or campaign for dofollow actions. My GOD!
Anyway, i believe what's more important is content. That is the main reason people coming to the site. Not only because of PR. I've seen crazy s*it site but with high PR, low page visitors, ONLY just because its linked to high PR sites. And there is it, people coming to the site because of content, not PR.
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The nofollow tag is really an important SEO tool because you get to focus some of your link juice on pages you want, which can be very helpful on your internal linking strategy.
I like the diagram above, so easy to understand...
there is a grain of truth in that
Thank you for this great information, it helped me this time.
Cheers and keep up the good work!
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I think this feature has created a lot of confusion. But if the whole idea of no follow is conceptually clear then it will definitely boost your site's ranking
Your article is really great ..Thanks for sharing the useful information.
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It's all about the dofollow i'm afraid!
I have to agree, you can't beat the do follow links!
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It's important to check if a site has a "no follow tag" if we are linking to untrusted content and also to control the link juice.
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