3 Easy Ways To Rock The Next PageRank Update
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Men can bear all things except crappy PageRank. - Dutch Proverb
The next PageRank update is near… I predict that it will happen in August, but it could be as soon as tomorrow! If you want to start making mad money with your website, you have to get ready in a hurry.
3 Easy Ways To Increase PageRank
1. Add ‘nofollows’ to as many out-bound links as possible. I did this today and added ‘nofollows’ to my RSS feed button, my ‘Add This Blog To My Technorati Favorites’ button, my SEOBOOK affiliate button, and to all of my social networking buttons. Since all of those buttons appear on every page of my site, I removed over 2,000 out-bound links that could have fatally wounded my PageRank. Why would I give link-love to Technorati, Feedburner, SEOBOOK, Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, and Furl, etc.? I would rather save it for my readers and for myself.
To add ‘nofollows’ to my social networking buttons, I switched from the Sociable plugin to the Anti-Social plugin, which is actually just a hacked version of the former.
How To Add NoFollows
Find the code for a link: <a href=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/courtneytuttle”>RSS Feed</a>
Add rel=”nofollow” like this: <a href=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/courtneytuttle” rel=”nofollow”>RSS Feed</a>
It’s that simple!
2. Submit articles you’ve already written to blog carnivals. It takes about 5 minutes to submit articles to a bunch of carnivals. Do you have 5 minutes each week to use a really easy method to boost your PageRank?
3. Be a blogging socialite. This method requires time, but it is pretty brainless. 
You can do it while watching tv. Here’s a post I wrote for eMom that tells how it works: My 8 Hours As A Blogging Socialite
Let this post be a reminder that a PageRank update is coming. Make sure you’re getting ready.
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June 7th, 2007 at 8:02 am
A new pagerank is coming? *flee*
June 7th, 2007 at 11:11 am
June 7th, 2007 at 8:06 am
Court, are you serious that those love links will damage our PR ? What about D-List ? Please advice.
As for NO.3- Be a socialite.I do agree that it consumes much time ! But, it’s a great way to attract traffic to our site…;D
June 7th, 2007 at 11:15 am
Outbound links definitely aren’t a good thing for PageRank. Giving links away by ‘dofollowing’ will lower PageRank slightly, but in my opinion the positives outweigh the negatives.
June 7th, 2007 at 8:16 am
The amount of out going links does have an effect as it’s got to pass your PR around more pages so leaving less chance of your inner pages getting an update. I think that’s rather extreme measure to take court. As long as you have not gone silly and got loads of links going out i really wouldn’t worry, just my 2 cents worth. It’s about 2 months off the next update, I think it’s to early to take these steps even if you do want to do it.
Martin
June 7th, 2007 at 11:30 am
Hi Martin,
Thanks for your opinion, which I value greatly. I guess my question would be how many links would be considered ‘loads’? I was able to keep the link juice from over 2,000 links with this method, I personally think that’s a considerable amount - worth doing something about.
I wish that we knew exactly when the next PageRank update really will be. It could very easily be this month, Google has updated it twice in one month before. The way I look at it, if there’s something I can do to get ready now, why wait? By the time the PageRank update starts, it’s already too late.
One dirty little secret that almost no one knows is that PageRank is actually updated daily - the PageRank that is used to calculate our rankings. The beast the we call a ‘PageRank update’ in reality is when Google takes a snapshot of what the new PageRanks of sites are and lets the world know. Your PageRank is likely different than what the Google toolbar shows - it could be higher or lower. You won’t find out what is it now until the next ‘update’.
What I consider to be extreme is linking out to Digg, StumbleUpon, Technorati, and others multiple times on all 200 pages of my site. I just don’t see any reason why I would do it! They’ll do just fine without links from me.
On the other hand, you’ll notice that I didn’t place nofollows on my comment links, and I didn’t place nofollows on my ‘Comment Champs’ links. You guys are the ones that can use link-love, and that’s why you get it.
June 7th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
Crikey a long but interesting reply. Besides page rank changing all the time in the background Google makes 6+7 major and minor tweeks to it’s algo every week! I see what you mean, by loads I was thinking thousands like you were indicating, maybe this is worth doing for bigger sites, I only have about 63 posts (only been going under 2 months) so won’t really matter for me. Certainly something to consider for the future. Cheers!
June 7th, 2007 at 10:27 am
Court,
What about semi-love links? Those links we post in our blog postings that are to other blogs that are not no-follow? Do you NoFollow links to something like TheNewsroom?
June 7th, 2007 at 11:36 am
Hi David,
It isn’t the links here and there that are going to get you! To answer your question, no I don’t ‘nofollow’ links to TheNewsRoom and other such sites.
I actually don’t ‘nofollow’ any sites that I link to in my posts. Those aren’t the links that are going to hurt you.
The ones that will dilute your PageRank are the site-wide links in your navigation and sidebar. Think about it - my RSS feed button is a link to Feedburner and is on every page of my site. I have 550+ pages in the Google index so I was giving Feedburner 550+ links. That’s just way too many in my opinion.
June 7th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Hey Court,
I can definitely see the point of the Anti-Social plugin change since technically the link from those buttons is different on every single page. As for the ones with the affiliate links, I would think that those ones would be fine since they are static, kind of falling under the concept of duplicate content. Not that I know for sure (a lot of this SEO stuff is speculation), but that’s my two cents anyway!
June 8th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
I think they would be fine too, but still can’t think of a reason to leave them as real links!
June 7th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Gregarious uses the share this plug in, which does not show up on my link reports. I am not sure if it is truly invisible, but the firefox plugins for checking links cannot find them.
June 8th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
You could look in the HTML for the page. If the code is in there for a link, it would count!
June 7th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
great tips, ill be sure to do that =)
June 8th, 2007 at 9:11 am
Court, I have had another thought about this and think it’s a really bad idea, here’s why:
I think that doing your tactic will work for increasing your PR, but I think it will damage your rankings in the engines! It’s telling Google you not part of any community as your only taking and not giving. Also it’s saying that everyone you are linking to you don’t trust and could be seen more as paid links??
So if you just want a increase in PR fair play you can make a lot from selling links, but I will always take traffic over PR anyday.
Martin
June 8th, 2007 at 9:55 am
That wouldn’t necessarily be true: think about Wikipedia. Last I heard Wikipedia uses all nofollow links for everything, but they come up on the top of tons of results.
June 8th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Wikipedia is the perfect example of how in-bound links are a lot more important than out-bounds.
June 8th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
I don’t think it will damage my rankings at all! I am still linked to tons of sites, I’m just doing it within my posts.
It doesn’t matter if you have paid links on your site, as long as you have nofollows on them.
I would be willing to bet that my traffic will go up, we’ll see how it plays out in the next few weeks!
June 8th, 2007 at 10:05 am
Yes your quite right Wikipedia does use no follow on all external links however it’s Wikipedia. I know that sounds stupid but Google does have rules for some sites and different ones for others. Wikipedia is a massive authority and ranks in the top 10 for just about everything in the SERPS, the content in there is a gold mine for Google and is highly relevent for each topic thats why it ranks well so they won’t punish them as they are so relevent plus it is open source which Google favours. Google also turns a blind eye to other big authority sites (a certain newspaper in america uses cloaked pages) it’s well known on the internet that they do this but Google does nothing because of it’s authority. If you don’t have a massive authority I think your site will be punished using Courts methods.
Martin
June 8th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
Hi again! I don’t think we’re on opposite ends of this argument. Do you think that it’s bad to use any nofollows?
I never said that people should nofollow every single link. I just think they should nofollow the obvious ones.
I actually have thousands of links in this site pointing to all kinds of references that are a lot more relevant to my site than Digg, Technorati, and others. I’ll keep the more relevant ones and nofollow these that aren’t as relevant.
June 8th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
Hi Court, how come you are linking to sites that aren’t relevant? Is that from paid reviews?
June 8th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
I guess I would need to know which links you mean!
June 8th, 2007 at 10:42 am
Some good information and very useful tips. I wasn’t too imformed of how PR works, but after reading this and through the comments, i’m getting a better idea.
June 8th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
I’m glad that I have been of some help to you Steve! I’m hoping that I can continue to do so.
June 8th, 2007 at 11:15 am
Court, how reliable are those Predict Google PageRank tool ? I have tried a few times these few weeks.
Last week, I saw 4.8 and then this week I saw 4.2.
Anyone out there who has used this tool a few months before the next update ? Did it predict correctly ? I am curious to hear from you guys…;D
June 8th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
They’re not super reliable! The one I like the most is this one:
http://www.iwebtool.com/pagerank_prediction
I still don’t think you can count on it. You can get an idea of whether you’re moving in a positive direction though.
Don’t worry about it returning a lower score, these tools do that based on a lot of factors, including how many outbound links they find on your homepage. They’re fickle and I wouldn’t put too much stock in them. Fun though!
June 8th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
That site requires a 100 backlinks before they will give you a prediction. Is there any estimate of the ratio between backlinks and pagerank?
June 8th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
I wish it was that simple! A lot depends on the PageRank of the pages that link to you, so there isn’t any kind of ratio.
For example, it might take only one PR6 link to get to PR3, and it might take 500 PR0 links to get to a PR3.
June 8th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Those predict pagerank tools are a waste of time.
June 8th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Court, I just do not get it! I do not get #1. I know you said it was simple, but I am a little slow, lol. What links are you talking about exactly? Would you mind explaining it to me a little better if you have time. Sorry to be the stupid commentor, lol. Have a great day.
June 8th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
No stupid question.
He is talking about links that go to other sites. On my blog, I got the Sociable plugin. So for each post, I’m giving a free link to all social site(reedit, digg…) that could be added to those site.(I will have to fix that).
When commenting on my site, I also give a free link to commentator because I have a dofollow plugin. Be default, “nofollow” is active thus not giving “credit” to the commentator. That’s why many PR6-7 ask for reviews to give the free link.
Hope it helps you? Court may add to that.
Court: Any tool to see how many outbounds i got on my blog? I want to do a before and after.
Thanks
June 8th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Steve,
I use a firefox plug in that shows me the count all links on a page, count of external, internal, nofollow external and followexternal.
You can find it at http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/
June 8th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
Sounds like a useful tool, I’ll check it out. I usually use yahoo site explorer to find out all sites linking in, and a few other tools to see the PR of links coming in.
June 8th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
I got it already :p
I will check it.
I was thinking of a site to do a site wide search.
June 8th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Hi Court, Finally managed to do the mod to my plug-in! This is a top tip, one of these things you never realise is robbing you of PR love until someone points it out! I’m going to keep an eye on all of my commercial “out going” links from now on!
all the best
Andy
June 8th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
Nice! Well done. I didn’t really realize how much I was draining my PR until I sat down and figured it out!
June 9th, 2007 at 12:02 am
Honestly, does that mean I should put back “nofollow” again ?
June 9th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
*wow*
I am thrilled you wrote this little article. I’ve got my work cut out for me and I see now that I am maybe giving away more than I am receiving. PR can be hard work.
June 9th, 2007 at 4:53 pm
You are right, why should I leak my Google PR juice to sites like Clickbank, Feedburner and Technorati.
This is a great piece of info, thanks Courtney
June 10th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
What about our ad networks like Text Link Ads? Should I be nofollowing their link on my sidebar as well?
June 10th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
You can’t do it with Text-Link-Ads - it’s against their terms of service. Leave those!
June 10th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Oh, and can you explain external links? If the SearchStatus toolbar tells me I have 6100 external domain links, then that is how many sites link back to me, correct? And if I have 834 indexed pages, then that is how many pages get crawled by search engines? Are those good numbers? I still don’t see how I figure out how many outbound links I have.
June 10th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
In this case, yes that is what external means. You should think of them as outbound and inbound though, external can mean more than one thing.
June 11th, 2007 at 11:31 pm
Is there a minimum # of backlinks one needs to get certain pageranks?
July 11th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
Great advice (I hope)! I immediately added the nofollow attribute to 15 or so external links in my blog sidebars and footer.
July 13th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
thanks for the post. The way you wrote it made it clear enough for a new blogger like me to understand. I only have a simple question, Court, that is, many people had said that paid reviews can affect your PR due to those outgoing links. How true is this?
July 13th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Hi Doris! It’s not very true because it isn’t very many outgoing links.
I would worry more about all of the links going out from your sidebar. I would probably nofollow some of the buttons if I were you!
July 14th, 2007 at 1:57 am
Hey Court, thanks for the valuable advice - I’ll be working on that this weekend! Learnt something new this week!
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Wow. That’s awesome about the nofollow. It works? I am totally gonna do that. Thanks.
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I will also try nofollow.
Regards
Raj
August 30th, 2007 at 6:42 am
Will more outbound links matters to SITE PR
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This is a good article. Outbound links will not effect PR.
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June 10th, 2008 at 6:50 am
Thanks so much! I never even considered that all the outbound links to social networking would damage me! Here’s to a brilliant PR update!
June 18th, 2008 at 5:30 am
Good points.I had also not considered no-following the feed url and the social bookmarking urls.
Let’s get ready for the update!
July 20th, 2008 at 10:22 am
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September 6th, 2008 at 6:12 am
Ok, now I don’t understand. Why would a outbound links hurt your pagerank? The SEO guides I’ve been reading encouraged outbound links… Sure linking to social sites are useless, but will they hurt you?
September 6th, 2008 at 6:19 am
Because it dilute the overall value of the juice you send when you have too many outbound links.
For example, I have a site that is doing link exchange(script) with other similar sites. But when I check the link page, the webmaster had my link with 100 other links while I was giving him less than 10-15 links.
September 6th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Ah, I see what you mean there Steve.