could this be used to add a rel="nofollow" to links??

You are laboring under a widespread but nonetheless false understanding of how a page passes PageRank. A link pointing to another page is a "vote" for the destination page and may add PageRank to that destination page. The originating page loses nothing.

The equation for this is:

PR passed = .85 * {PR of originating page} / {total # outgoing links on the originating page, incl. internal navigation links}

Note that using nofollow still counts as an outgoing link in this equation.

Thank you djbaxter for your kind reply. I appreciate your taking the time to do so.



That is not what I learned. I?d appreciate it if you could sustain your argument with any solid proof from the horse?s mouth (google in this case)

Dj, such formula, if correct, would not be something that google published. So where does this come from Sir?
I?d appreciate it if you could provide any solid argument on this.

In fact, if that were true, my site should not be at all having any issues with PR because we have literally thousands of back links in facebook group discussions. Facebook as you surely know is a PR9.

My site used to be a PR4 for many years. It recently, in an enigma lost more than half a million of pages in google?s index (as estimated by site:mysite) and dropped to PR2. Despite thousands of back-links on Facebook groups, we are still PR2 and not moving any inch forward. The same can be said about the number of pages in Google index: stable at 150-200K.

Kindly check this where I explain this issue
http://forums.seochat.com/link-popul...rs-457075.html

Sir, if the nofollow has no effect on your PR, why do big sites such as Facebook add target="_blank" rel="nofollow nofollow" to every single external link?

Sure. Look up the original patent for PageRank. It's in there.

See the original patent.

As you yourself point out below, Facebook links are nofollow so they do not pass PR to you. Besides, there are other factors that may discount whether or how much PR is passed to your page by a link from another site. If you have kept up with Google updates over the years, you would know this.

1. Panda updates.
2. Recent additional updates targeting the value of certain types of links and content.
3. As I said, you yourself point out that those Facebook links are nofollow.

This is not rocket science.

Largely as a spam deterrent. And the target=_"blank" part opens the link target in a new browser tab or window. Nothing to do with PR.

Hi guys, I just installed this mod, and its great! Well done to the creator of it.

Just one question, and I apologise in advance if this has been covered somewhere in the 123 pages of this thread so far, but I figured it'd be faster to just ask here than look through every page for an answer. Is there some code I can add to give me more margin space between my banner and everything around it? I've used it in ad_navbar_below but my banner is really close to some of the page link text above it, where its easy to accidentally click on the ad banner instead of the page link text. Eg, the ad banner sits really close to where I have: "Forum>my website name>General Discussion, and I'd like to move it down the page slightly.

You may insert into your text banner the click tracker and refer to the banner id itself. We have talked about it several times here in this thread, last time not too long ago.

This is a pure HTML question. You may put a div tag around the placeholder with the necessary margins.

No matter how hard you try to keep your PR up, it doesn't work any more for already quite some time as it had before, because as far as I know, Google has not renewed their rights on a relative patent held by somebody else.

Also, the "ranking" (i.e. at which position your pages show in searches) is undergoing a lot of changes lately, all of which are favouring real information and penalizing "page rank thiefs".

Under these aspects, follow or nofollow have not a lot of meaning towards ranking, at most it does mean now the real thing: follow or leave that link ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank

It is something which in fact was published world-wide by its inventor :)

The formula is far more complex but essentially the incoming page rank was somewhat (0.85 + adjustment) * (1/(# links on a page)). Thus it was a good idea to have very few links on the originating page.

Talking about most forums and sites, they have so many links on a page that looking for a good ranking was simply impossible.

For this reason, I believe Google has abbandoned the "old" ranking formula and now looks for better ways, giving a lot of SEO masters headache. Fortunately, genuine information is the winner, and always was. Thus, if you want to index your site well, produce real information :)

The outgoing link is just voting that link.

The page from where you advertise from (originator) will loose a little of ranking, but you would loose it with any kind of link, internal or external. However, since ranking has changed, you should concern more about information. Now, good information adds way more rank, than a number or less of links to another site subtracts from.