hi guys I have a 2 page rank blog and i used to link to other sites in my blog posts and i didn't know that this thing would affect my rank now iam adding the rel="nofollow" to all this exit links like: <a href="rapidshre link"rel="nofollow">rapidshare.com</a> Is that right way in adding nofollow tag and i now manually add this tag to about my 1000 post blog and that is too boring thing isnot there any way to activte nofollow to all my blog one time like putting a code in blog tags as example plz replay to me and i want to ask do all this links prevented me from higher page rank
You can link to whomever you want to without a rel="nofollow" as long as you trust the site you are linking to and are willing to vouch for them. The huge debate about rel="nofollow" and blogs has more to do with blog comments, and almost nothing to do with blog posts (unless the post is a 'paid' post where a company paid you money to give them a good word... an advertising post). Cutts found out Google Japan were paying for posts w/ an advertising campaign for a product launch recently recently, and they were penalized... Google penalizing Google. Ironic! But shows that the quality team is unbiased even towards their own company. It was a bit embarressing for them I'm sure, but I think they handled it well... as they would handle your site or my site if we were caught doing the same. Back to battling comment spamming... When blogs first came into existence, every link on a blog was followed... including comments. Spammers, as they always do, saw this as a prime opportuntity to create backlinks to themselves or their paying clients sites. So they started spamming blogs with comments. So this forced Google to combat the blog comment spamming by penalizing blogs that allowed it. Since a lot of blogs are not moderated (comments don't have to be approved by the blogger before they show up on the site), Google wants you to rel="nofollow" every comment link UNLESS it is a commentor whom you trust and again, are willing to vouch for their links. Should you NOT moderate your comment links AND NOT rel="nofollow" comment links AND one of your commentors happens to link to a site that Google considers a bad neighborhood then you CAN be penalized because of that commentor's link. Here's a VERY recent, good video by Matt Cutts at Google on the topic of nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4UJS-LFRTU. He talks about Wikipedia as an example, but the same goes for any site/blog. He even mentions blogs a couple minutes into the video.
Webmasters like you should be shot. If you link to a website in your blog post, they deserve the link juice. nofollow was introduced for blog comment spam. Trying to keep the PR within your site is just ridiculous.
plz i need quick answer my blog host is blogger and i know that there is a nofollow on comments but what about links inside posts is my way in notfollowing right ????????????
I heard somewhere that Google doesn't like it if you 'hoard' pr by using nofollow everywhere. Anyone know if it's true? Or if Google even has an automated way to differentiate between nofollow used to combat spam vs. no follow used to hoard pr?
There is no Google "Hoarding PR" penalty. No such thing. You can use rel="nofollow" all you want and how you want... Google doesn't care. However, the amount of PR you are saving by rel="nofollow"ing a link in your post to another site is likely miniscule. If your page has 100 outbound links to other pages on your site as well as external pages, then adding rel="nofollow" to a link to another site is saving 1/100 of the PR from going to that external site. That 1/100th of your page's PR that you save then gets divided over the 99 remaining followed links... So you just increased the PR passed to the remaining 99 by 1/99th of 1%... nothing. Unless you are doing large scale nofollowing like the NYPost does, this PR sculpting using rel="nofollow" is typically insignificant. Your time can be better spent fixing other more lucrative, productive SEO problems on your site like refining your <title>, <h1>, content... and link building. The question of when to nofollow a link in a post is very simple to answer: If you are writing about a site or referencing them because they are an authority on some topic then DO follow their link. If you are writing about the site because you think they are a scam and you want to make the public aware then NOFOLLOW their link.