Due to the fact that Dragonblogger.com was still rated a PR of 0 and my personal and poetry blogs were recently related PR1 and PR2 respectively, I concluded I have too many outbound links on my primary technology and entertainment blog.  I have decided to more strictly enforce a NoFollow policy to try and keep some of my PR Juice from flowing out of my site and into other web sites in order to retain a better page rank, since traffic and user visits were not enough apparently.

So I have downloaded and installed the WordPress NoFollow Links in Posts Plug-IN from the WordPress archive, and it does work somewhat.  You can set posts in specific categories and they will automatically add “rel=nofollow” to the link’s after the specified # of days you enter.  There is a bug in the plug-in however, if you try to use the “all” instead of the categories individually, then every single link will have a rel=nofollow added even ones that are before the date.

The default is to not add no follow to anything, you must individually select your categories and then specify the # of days before automatically appending “nofollow”.  I have generally kept to a 30 day policy on all of my categories that link out, I will leave all links intact for 30 days with follow.  This way some blogging friends gain the benefit for a while, as well as paid posts which require follow tags will be satisfied and met for the duration of the paid post.

The -1 for “all” is misleading, and really means it will not add nofollow to all your posts, if you put 30, 60 or any number besides -1, then every link will have “nofollow” added and you won’t be able to get some paid posts approved (PayU2Blog and PayPerPost require DoFollow on links).

I was hoping to just set all posts to expire Follow after 30 days, and am hoping this feature gets fixed eventually.

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-Dragon Blogger

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Man, I just don’t understand Google PageRank, it makes no sense.

My Rock Along Productions blog turns out has a PR of 4:
http://www.rockalongproductions.com has Google PageRank 4 out of 10

Yet my This Blog, my Poetry Blog Wanderer Thoughts and my personal blog Justin Germino have PR of 0.

What doesn’t make sense is Dragon Blogger has over 300 unique visits per day, over 8500+ external links on Google WebMasterTools, yet Rock Along Productions has barely 200 external links, less than 50 unique visits per day.

This only confirms that Google Penalizes you for doing paid posts (Rock Along Productions is a company blog and I don’t do paid advertising on it).  But I don’t do paid advertising on the poetry blog either, so not sure why that is so low (maybe too new of a blog).

Also linking to other blogs hurts your blog PR, as the “SEO Juice” from a previous post, you leak your PR to other blogs reducing your own by creating too many links out.  Again, I am trying to figure out how to get around the vicious double edged sword.

Does anyone actually qualify for the like $60.00 or $100.00 paid opps on PayPerPost and do the post and still retain a PR of 5 or higher for most of these post requirements?

Just some stuff I am thinking about.

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First off, I have only been blogging for about 40 days now and I have heard other people rant about the Google Pagerank instability and having been “hit” by Google Pagerank.  I don’t believe how yesterday and for the last two weeks my blogs was a PR2 and then today bam I am now slammed with a PR0.  I didn’t convert my site from http://dragonblogger.com to http://www.dragonblogger.com, my backlinks, and all external links are growing and not shrinking.

My IZEARank is <400, my Alexa rank is 300,000 3 month average and <150,000 1 week average.  So what gives, how does something like this happen?

The bad thing is now my blog won’t qualify for many of the opps that require PR2 or above, so my blog goals just got a lot harder to achieve.

So, go ahead my fellow bloggers, rant here about your Google Pagerank story.  Who else has been burned?

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