Wordpress Pagerank flow considerations

robwatts — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:31:08 +0000

Andrew – that is the current accepted pearl of wisdom. That said, search engineers like to mix things up and obfuscate. Noindex, follow says don’t index these pages but follow the links. We could always test, but it mightn’t be worth the aggravation!

Wordpress Pagerank flow considerations

Andrew — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:11:53 +0000

Thanks, I’ve always wondered about this. Namely I wanted to noindex my archive pages but I do not want to stop the pagerank flow since they are the only way to reach my posts (homepage > archives > posts) – Blogger sucks in a way that they don’t have categories, and labels are forbidden in robots.txt.

So I was wondering if NOINDEX,FOLLOW wouldn’t show pages in Google SERPs but still follow links and more importantly, pass PageRank from homepage to posts via noindex,follow archives.

Wordpress Pagerank flow considerations

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Wordpress Pagerank flow considerations

kulak estetigi — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:02:01 +0000

I think a plugin in that is highly underrated is Andy Beard’s NoFollow Those Dupes Plugin. May be the reason is, not as widely used as it should be because of the lack of understanding of how it works. It gets rid of outbound dublicated links. http://andybeard.eu/wordpress-plugins/nofollow-those-dupes

Wordpress Pagerank flow considerations

robwatts — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:04:55 +0000

Daron – some search engines say that you shouldn’t link to bad neighbourhoods. I guess we should take that on board; besides, why would anyone want to link to crap anyways?

Wordpress Pagerank flow considerations

Daron — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:59:13 +0000

That’s news to me. Thanks. I’m sure I’ll see big improvements using your ideas. If I allow a link to a crappy site, though, will mine get worse, too?

Wordpress Pagerank flow considerations

robwatts — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:18:36 +0000

You are welcome, all imho of course

In terms of this question. In essence, link out for your users and in context. The short answer is that it helps you both.

The longer answer is a little bit more fuzzy.

It is a theoretcial fact that a link out to another site will drain away a factor of pagerank to the linked to site.

It doesnt hurt to associate your site or page with a relevant on topic page.

If you have a page about cars and you link out to an authority on cars then you are not doing yourself or your readers a disservice. If you have the same page about cars and link out to something completely unrelated then you may not be helping your site or your readers.

There is a lot of theory and debate around various algorithms that may be at play when this is calculated, Hilltop, HITS to name but two. Search engines publish a lot of stuff around algorithms, patents etc. It all helps muddy the waters.

Of course, the only true way is to determine the answer is to test and compare across a multitude of pages; something which in isolation is not very easy to do.

Wordpress Pagerank flow considerations

estetik — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:15:04 +0000

Thank you so much Robwatts. Very informative for me. May I ask another question. If I give a link to a site with higher google pagerank from my page (without nofollow – noindex tags) does it add points to my page?