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Posted By: patrickaltoft 682 days ago
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Category: SEO

Stephan Spencer has an interesting post over at Search Engine Land today entitled Twelve SEO Mistakes Most Bloggers Make. Most of the article is great advice but there are two tips that I really don't agree with.

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from planetc1 681 days ago #

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"Worrying about leaking PageRank isn't good for your site and certainly isn't going to help your rankings."

So, what is the consensus on this? I'm getting mixed info.

from matt608 681 days ago #

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It's true worrying alone won't increase PR, but at least it shows an awareness of it's importance making it more likely you will try to activly increase it.

As for having multiple RSS feeds, I havn't come across any blogs with that feature.

from Sem-Advance 680 days ago #

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PageRank is not going to help your rankings either lol.....

from Halfdeck 679 days ago #

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PageRank helps me sell more links at a higher price - that's why my comments are nofollowed.

from Halfdeck 679 days ago #

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After reading the short post, a couple of thoughts:

First, where are the list of 10 mistakes? A baity title that doesn't deliver isn't cool.

Second, nofollow on internal link is not a negative quality signal. Nofollow is technically nearly identical to META noindex and robots.txt disallow. That's why one solution Matt Cutt suggests when linking out non-editorially is to use redirect through a robots.txt disallowed directory. That's identical to nofollowing them on the page, except it's simpler to implement.

People associate all sorts of mambo jumbo with nofollow, but from a crawler's POV, they're nothing but a granular META noindex,nofollow on a per-link level.

If your blog is having supplemental issues, you certainly should control PageRank flow - not doing that puts you in the "build it and they will come, build for users not for search engines" category which not only disqualifies you as a competent SEO but also opens your site up to all sorts of potential problems.