TIPS

Written by admin on February 10th, 2008

1. Add NoFollow Relationship to WordPress Blogroll to Increase PageRank
Blogroll in WordPress displays a list of blogger’s favorite blogs in the sidebar of their blog. Blogroll provides links to external blogs in easily managed way. Some webmasters also use Blogroll to display backlinks to other external sites for link exchange or link buying. In reality, links added by WordPress blogroll is actually useless textlinks that are discouraged by Google and most other search engines, especially when the links are paid off or in exchange for a link back.

Thus, linking blindly to external sites MAY (if your blog or website has been caught and labeled by Google machine algorithm as participate in illegal link scheme to boost page rank, although you’re not) severaly negatively discount your own site PageRank (PR) value, or worst, affects your site ranking in search engine results positioning. To avoid any potential backlash from the external links in Blogroll, it’s best to add rel=”nofollow” attribute to the <a> tag in Blogroll as suggested by Google so that no PageRank value is passed through the links, and the links won’t penalize your site ranking.

To automatically add and attach rel=”nofollow” attribute to each and every outgoing links in Blogroll, we need to hack through WordPress core source code file. Go to wp-includes/ directory of your blog root folder, then edit the bookmark-template.php file with any text editor such as vi.

Locate the following line (it’s at line 48 for Wordpress version 2.3.1):

$output .= '<a href="' . $the_link . '"' . $rel . $title . $target. '>';

Append the rel=”nofollow” to the line by changing the line to the following:

$output .= '<a href="' . $the_link . '"' . $rel . $title . $target. ' rel="nofollow">';

Save the file when done.

All Blogroll links in blog sidebar will now have rel=”nofollow” attribute tagged with the link, which force search engine spiders and crawlers to stop following the links. Adding the nofollow attribute may not change the fortune of your site immediately, but will surely reduce the risks of been penalized by search engines for excessive linking.

2.Trick to Increase your Technorati Rank

Yesterday my Technorati rank was around 40,000, today it’s hovering at about 4,100. So how did I manage to increase 35,000 positions in just one day?

Simple really. Potentially you have way more links out there than technorati gives you credit for. This probably goes for a lot of the guys that are in the top 100 aswell.

I used Xenu to fully spider & grab all the URL’s from sites I knew had a Sitewide link to Earners Blog. I loaded all the URL’s into a text file & got rid of any externals. I then loaded the full list into the pinging tool that comes with Blogger Generator, fire the technorati ping server into it:

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

Then just let it run on the entire list.

This technique increased my link count from 888 to 3,100 within the space of around 60 minutes.

Why’s this important?

Well, whilst having a high technorati rank isn’t overly important, it can help increase your value in Textlinkads & Reviewme. But for people who are struggling to just hit the top 100 in technorati this technique has the ability to really give them the needed boost to get right up there & compete with the “top blogs” out there.

Another simple yet effective technique brought to you by Earner