Comments on: How a Blogroll Can Still Kill Your PageRank

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:43:14 +0000

Possibly – if the blogs are all on the same IP address, all poor quality thin content and heavily interlinked that could also be a problm, but just because things might have some negative, doesn’t mean there would be a penalty.

By: Barb

Barb — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:14:48 +0000

I have 10 blogs and include links in the blogroll to each one.
Is this hurting each site? I have ‘recent posts’ ‘categories’ ‘archives’ on each one.

By: SEOgist

SEOgist — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:08:38 +0000

Well, agree.

Placing links from every page not make sense. better to have link from relevant pages.

By: SEOgist

SEOgist — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:06:17 +0000

Nice article, it is clear that Google now actually passing link juice to all the links present on the page and no matter if you are followed or no followed the proportion link juice pass to the link or lost if no followed.

Better to stick with less and quality reference link that can be good for users.

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By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:31:24 +0000

Nofollow doesn’t necessarily help these days

By: Vojtech Krs

Vojtech Krs — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:37:49 +0000

You can choose to have nofollow links in Top Commentator widget. Atleast in the latest version (1.3).

Andy is right, it mostly encourages spammy comments – or rather “forced” comments without much value.

By: Kanyakumari Hotels

Kanyakumari Hotels — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 06:48:36 +0000

Great post Andy. And one which I feel is greatly beneficial. I’ve had Michael Campbell’s Revenge of the Mininet for a while now, but never once got started with it. You just change my mind with this post.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:05:51 +0000

Giving away links isn’t necessarily a problem if you do something with internal linking to compensate, though I am not a fan of top commentator plugins as they tend to encourage spammy comments rather than comments that contribute something to the conversation.

By: Dean Saliba

Dean Saliba — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:54:21 +0000

Well worth updating and republishing this post. I removed my blogroll and replaced it with a Top Commentator widget but have been told that there is no difference as they both give away links. I don’t agree but I’m no expert.