Atniz post a good article about passing page rank from her sidewide using Top Commentators and Top Droppers widget. If your blog have 1000 links and you have Top 10 Commentators widget showed sidewide. You are giving away 10,000 links at one time. She also said, you should minimize outgoing dofollow links and get more incoming dofollow backlinks.
In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves “important” weight more heavily and help to make other pages “important”.
PR is decided by how many links is linking to you. The quality of the PR it pass is determine by the number of outgoing links from that page. Your non home pages are linking to home page, that means they are giving your homepage PR too. If you have many links linking outside from that page, you only pass little PR.
Any outgoing links to other website should be placed in your home page to maximize the PR passed from your non home page, including links to your twitter, affiliate links, and facebook account. To only show content for the home page only, you can use:
<?php if (!is_home()) : ?>
Code to show here.
<?php endif; ?>
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I haven’t know that many links linking outside from the page create little PR.I know that it is logical but…
Thanks for this information.
Till
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The Google PR calculation:
PR(A) = (1 – d) + d * SUM ((PR(I->A)/C(I))
Where:
* PR(A) is the PageRank of your page A.
* d is the damping factor, usually set to 0,85.
* PR(I->A) is the PageRank of page I containing a link to page A.
* C(I) is the number of links off page I.
* PR(I->A)/C(I) is a PR-value page A receives from page I.
You can see that if the PR is multiplied by SUM of ((PR(I->A)/C(I)). So if C(I) is high, it will be multiplied by small number.
I think having the top commentator links on your pages should increase comments on your site, but I’m not sure how it would effect your page rank.
@option strategy, I didn’t know about that. Thanks. I will try to memorize whole equations.
Nina
Top commentator encourages people to comment on your blog, a good way to promote a blog. People visit your blog frequently and leave quality comments, you return a favor to them by displaying their names and links at your sidebar, though this may dillute the web page link juices…
Biodun, The "this may dillute the web page link juices" is certainly one major drawback. However, in return to have top commentator on all pages: The search engines logically do value a blog post with more comments more than those that have no or little amount of comments - More comments = more content = more popular your blog post.
I appreciated the way you described how to pass page rank from one page of the site to another and about external links as well. I also have heard that if you place external links to authority sites on Page 1 in Google in your category under the Blogroll link section that too will help your site in rankings.
Claude, To clarify, the sites must be authority AND relevant. Nevertheless, that is correct, but not necessarily under the blogroll link - You can actually do just that in an article you write for your blog. The key is not over-stuffing your blogs/sites with over-SEOed materials - Being natural, link to sites that are worth linking, exercising nofollow on irrelevant links, etc. are better.
I’m still finding my way when it comes to getting good rankings from Google, but have found the ratio of comments that are useful to be painfully thin. 90% or more are spam or from new sites with no juice. I use this tactic to round out my strategy, but rely on other methods for anchor links from authority sites or at the least a popular aged site. I admit for me none of it is fun, but if I need to do it, I want solid results for my time.
This can be very confusing. So if you do top commentators should you set it to only appear on your front page?
Tonie, Yes - moreover, having outbound links site-wide can get your site penalised...
I think that having keywordluv and commenterluv are very beneficial to both parties involved. The site owner gets more views and quality comments, while the commenter gets a free link
Thanks.
Any feedback from you?