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Jay Gaulard Blog » Blog Archive » The Rules Of Blogging — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:16:31 +0000

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By: Rod

Rod — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:28:32 +0000

Agreed, the whole blogging culture can be hard to get to grips with when starting out. But somehow we all get there in the end. Like you say, it comes down to courtesy in the end; a good rule of thumb I heard awhile back is “don’t say anything online you wouldn’t be prepared to say to someone’s face”.

The one point I differ on is that of opening links in the same window. When I surf I tend to open links in new tabs, so I do the same on my blog. That way visitors can choose if they want to continue reading my site after following a link, or not.

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By: Monika Mundell

Monika Mundell — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:51:04 +0000

@ Rodney: Thanks for explaining this to Will. You got the gist of what I meant. I suppose I should have explained this in more detail upfront.

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By: Monika Mundell

Monika Mundell — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:49:42 +0000

@ Will: It is leaking PR from your site. Every link you give out counts. As default, WordPress is setup to use dofollow links in posts. By linking to the sites mentioned using dofollow all the time you will leak or weaken your own PR. If the links are related to your post title and keywords however, then it is beneficial to use as is. But if they are unrelated to your topic and you still need to link it is better to use a nofollow.

Hope this makes sense. Plus, for bloggers who really don’t worry about PR and climbing Gogogle, this info isn’t relevant.

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By: Will

Will — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:00:18 +0000

Rodney,
Thanks a bunch; that’s an aspect of PR I never quite understood. I’ll consider it… but I probably won’t start using nofollow for anything.

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By: RodneyB@RSB Info

RodneyB@RSB Info — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:55:45 +0000

Will, I believe he is referring to “PR Leakage”. Basically a web page has a certain value (based somewhat on the pages PR). It passes on a percentage of this value to all the websites the page links to, including internal pages. However, the value of the page is equally distributed to all the different pages linked to, so adding external links effectively decreases the value that is passed on to the internal pages…where once say 1/6 of the value was distributed to each of 6 pages linked to, adding another link would decrease it to 1/7 of the value.

Note this does not affect the pages PR at all… links out do not take away from links in . But it can have an affect on other pages for the same website that were also linked to by that page.

Hope I didn’t muddy the water even further

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By: Will

Will — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:58:44 +0000

Nice post, but I’m a little confused by one point. You said:

“However, having said this, I think when we consistently link to big networks like Google, Wikipedia, Yahoo or others we can sometimes attribute a rel nofollow to the link in order not to diffuse our PR.”

Could you explain how that hurts PR?

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By: MJ@Search Engine Optimization

MJ@Search Engine Optimization — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:46:29 +0000

I made my own blogging network by giving out some links and luring bloggers into my site. I knew they would read the post so I spoke directly to them using the post–a little creepy but hey, it worked!

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