Make money blogging in South Africa

You may not even know it, but you are spilling your very own pagerank to all the links in your blogroll! Your blogroll appears on every page on your blog which makes those half intelligent Google spiders think that you highly recommend those sites since you link to them on every single page! So off the spiders go and along with it, some of your pagerank. (This is not an exact science, but there are a couple of case studies that have been done on this.)

Internal Linking your way to a better pagerank

If you are going to have a blogroll, make sure that you have at least 5 times the number of links on your blogroll pointing internally. Another tip is to add the nofollow attribute to all the links in your blogroll, which will stop Search Engine spiders from moving on to those sites. Obviously if any of these sites are reciprocating the favour, then by all means keep them in your blog roll with the nofollow attribute off.

Andy Beard posted on his blog regarding leaking pagerank through a blogroll. He has some tips on how to increase the number of internal links on your blog which I will definitely have a look into. I have already started implementing some of these strategies, and the first was to remove my blogroll. I’ve moved it over to a links page, which also has link exchanges and a couple of links to my favourite articles on the web.

In conclusion

So to those of you trying to increase your page rank, try to stop spilling your pagerank to other sites by using a blogroll. Also try and increase those internal links and maybe your pagerank will increase too!