Losing Page Rank through Twitter

@alexpratt 199101 wrote:

Really interesting article here on wasting page rank through Twitter http://www.seobook.com/how-much-your-pagerank-are-you-wasting-twitter#comments

wasting page rank … LOL
:roflmao:

Let me know if you EVER find any tangible benefit for PR ..
Other than in webmasters minds of course …
:sarcasm:

Selling links…? :wink-wink

O – maybe I should have put link juice – Either way PR/link juice is beiung wasted – A twitter account should not be in the top ten for superbowl!

• Sorry to be lazy and cut 7 paste this from my blog but that’s kinda what I use it for; to address the same question I get from multiple forums…oh, and I’m kind lazy when it comes to typing.
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• Page Rank is basically the level of trust and authority that Google has assigned to a website and each individual page within the site. PR is based off of historical information, sometimes months old, so check to see if the linking page has any links showing in Google for a better insight. There are many tools that have this functionality but I use Firefox browser with the SEO Quake plugin because it also shows Yahoo and MSN backlinks, social bookmarks, cache date and many other details that are important.
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• If you are linking from a page (whether internally or from an external website) PR becomes very important. This PR, from a rating of 0/10 up to 9/10, is the amount of available “link juice” that you have to play with within your website, or that is being divided up amongst the links on an external website that is linking back to you.
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• Trust and authority are determined by the number of backlinks from other websites, the relevancy of content on your page, who else they are linking to, who else you are linking to, and many other attributes. The little PageRank bar (see image below – if you have the Google toolbar installed) shows Page Rank and is somewhat of an indicator of a sites level of trust and authority as determined by Google, including your own website and pages within your website. Links from internal pages with page rank can be sculpted in a way that boosts the amount of PR, and therefore the rankings for the term or terms that the page is targeting within Google’s search results.
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• There are two factors Google looks at; the PR being passed from external sources; and the PR being passed internally through links.
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• What we are going to use it for now is sculpting your internal Link Juice to help boost your rankings for these pages.

• But this has created a useful tool for search engine optimisation. We can nofollow the links in our website to preserve the PR and pass it on to the pages that we want to rank well. The ‘About Us’, ‘Contact Us’ and ‘Login Here’ pages/links are obviously not pages that we care to rank for. So by adding nofollows to these internal links, we can funnel more PR to the important pages.
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• Another great way to use this tip is when you are creating new pages for niche phrases that you identified through your logfiles or Hittail. Build a doorway page off of your homepage. I use this as a ‘holding’ area for newly identified hotlist terms that I want to rank quickly. Put nofollows on all of the template/navigational links. Add relative content on the doorway page using your newly found keyword and anchor the keyword or keyword phrase (turn it into a link) to the new page that you created.

• This will funnel all of the available link juice to the new page, targeting the new term, and you will see your page rise through the rankings.

  I actually published a case study in the most recent CAP Magazine on Bingo.com using a new subdomain (or basically a new site) and funneling PR through a doorway page to the index.html page. It ranked top 10-15 in 3 weeks and holds many top 5 now (12 weeks later) for spanish terms and on google.es

  I’ve used this technique many times with success. I’ve also been testing the theory that its somehow damaging or red-flag material; in both cases I can assure you that its not. That’s basically one man’s opinion being propagated and creating a shitstorm of apprehension and rumors. I have at least 5 examples I could show you privately.
  

Good round up Gary,

Quick question, does SEO Quake burn your IPs in get you banned from searching Google?

No I only use it in bursts, but yes, it can if you keep it turned on. It won’t get you banned unless you consistently abuse it and I’ve had dozens of people using it before google put a temp double-captcha on the IP.

You can also use Tor/Vidalia to located open IP’s and mask your activities.

I appreciate the reminder on PR – and it is not being lazy, it is being smart.

Anyway. I don’t link TO twitter, my twitter links to me.
I assume that’s not wasting any PR is it???