Monday, March 12, 2007

How to Prevent Page Rank From Going to Unwanted Pages

Here's a quick way to prevent page rank from going to unwanted pages.

Below is used with permission from this money making program.

If you want to find the Page Rank of a site you can go to http://www.prsearch.net or you can get the PR extension for Firefox. Firefox is the online marketer’s best friend. Page Ranks change on a daily basis.

Your main web page is going to generally have a higher Page Rank then other pages on your site. You don’t want to pass your PR to your “disclaimer/terms of service” page, or “sitemap” page. This would be a waste of your PR.

The way to prevent PR from spreading to these unwanted pages is quite simple, yet very few know about it. I’m sure you are probably familiar with the html code to displace a clickable link. If not, it looks like this:


Now if you add a simple extra tag to this code it will prevent Google from spreading PR to it from your site. That tag is: rel="nofollow". It will be inserted into your code like this:


Note: I had to use a picture to explain this otherwise blogger will recognize it as a legitimate html tag.

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