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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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