PageRank Sculpting article updated August 2014… PageRank (PR) confuses a lot of webmasters and SEO Consultants. Many years ago another SEO expert asked me why the site statcounter.com is PR10** despite having a lot of external links on the home page, basically why isn’t the leaked PR (via external links) damaging the sites PR10 home page: the SEO consultant didn’t believe PR leaks and that domain supported his SEO argument regarding PR sculpting. ** As I update this article in 2014 the PR of the domain has dropped to PR8, this doesn’t necessarily mean the site’s lost significantly more than half it’s backlinks. PageRank is based on the entire WWW, well at least the part Google spiders and since I […]
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Google WebMaster Guidelines 50 Links
Hi
I could not but leave the site without a coment –sorry about that.
But as per as Google’s guidelines to webmasters go –it says if you have more than 50 external links—the PR value decreases. I am more to go with those guidelines than any self-proclaimed SEO experts!.
Though I enjoyed your article.
External Links SEO?
Still no sure about where external links should point to.
Should they only point to the home page or can they point to other important pages, too?
God bless,
Sandy
SEO Link Benefit
I agree that including links to relevant sites on pages does have a beneficial effect.
Just don’t go mad and keep it useful to the visitor.
Is PageRank Passed via Javascript Links?
Hi!
I have a blogger blog. As you must know pages work with only one template. So…
I want to link other sites through all internal pages but not in the main page. My “solution”, temporarily, is to document.write (JavaScript) these links depending on the URL that shows the Address Bar of the browser when a page is requested.
Am I transferring PR to these sites with a JS generated link?
Thanks,
Luis Aveiga
Thanks :)
Is PageRank Passed via Javascript Links?
Javascript Links Do Not Pass PR/Link Benefit
Using javascript links will normally not pass PR/link benefit.
BTW you can link from all pages except the main page by surrounding your links with some blogger code.
Been a while since I used Blogger, but recall to only link (or any content) from the home page use
<MainPage>What you want only on main</MainPage>
I think to only have on archive pages was something like
<ArchivePage>Only on archive pages</ArchivePage>
I’m sure if you do a few Google searches you can find the exact code.
David
Javascript Links Do Not Pass PR/Link Benefit
Javascript Links
Thanks a lot David 4 your help & time!!!
You’re absolutely right! It’s a good idea :)
Beto
Do Redirect Links Pass PR?
Hi again!
Answer me one more question please :)
Could this kind of links transfer some PR to my site?
## https://stallion-theme.co.uk/go/go.php?id=1
I mean links like this one…
Thanks in advanced David,
Beto
301 Redirects Pass PagRank
Yes they can if the script behind them uses a 301 redirect.
Google treats a 301 redirect which many redirect scripts for linking to affiliate products use. Google treats the 301 redirect just like a standard text link with the 0.85 dampening factor like you see with PageRank formula. So nothing to be gained PageRank wise using 301 redirects to link to webpages you don’t want to pass link benefit to.
Because you are linking to a page and that page 301 redirects you are in effect adding the dampening factor twice.
What you are doing is
Linking to Page 1 (0.85 PR cost) which 301 redirects to Page 2 (0.85 PR cost).
Most PHP redirect scripts are not the answer to PR sculpting, the Stallion SEO package includes a redirect feature that cuts out the linking to Page 1 part, so no PR is passed.
Sometimes PHP scripts use 302 redirects (temporary redirect) which used to cause SERPs hi-jacking problems!
David
301 Redirects Pass PagRank
PR Leaks?
hello,
If the php file loose the pr to the external links?
Many thanks
PR Leaks to High PR Pages?
Does PR leak if obl are to higher pr sites?
but can anyone tell me if PR leaks to pages of higher PR than it ?