Well, this one’s pretty simple but a lot of people forget to put nofollow on links that are going out.

I don’t mean you should put nofollow on blogroll links but links like feedburner, flickr, and other free services you link to.

Don’t simply copy and paste as you are giving away valuable Pagerank to those free sites.

Well, that’s if you want to keep your PageRank as high as possible.  It’s pretty much pointless to put a nofollow on those links anyways.

I know, I know, you want to thank those sites that give you the free service but realize that every link is valuable and if you are serious about gaining traction in the internet world, you should really pay attention here. Besides, those free services probably already got millions of free links from other bloggers who don’t give a shi*.  I am just telling you if you do give a shi*.

Why do people forget about this simple fact?

Well, because most of the time, you end up copying and pasting the code from those free service sites.  Now remember they don’t have a ToS that says you need to put a do-follow link in order to use their services.  It’s only fair for you as a blogger to protect your Pagerank from going out to links like that.  It’s actually very important that you watch out where your outlinks are going to as it will determine the number of search engine traffic you receive over the long term.

Now, don’t tell me you are on the do-follow campaign, that’s just something I won’t get into but it’s only hurting your blog.  I think it’s smarter to play the safe side and make sure your do-follow links are only to those sites that you want it to go out and keep everything else, as I said before, a no-follow folks.

I maybe right or wrong but you might as well be safe than sorry.

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Well, I did a post on how to protect yourself from Pagerank before, now I will tell you how to protect yourself losing Pagerank through “Link Smarts”.

What are “Link Smarts”?

Basically, Google algorithm has been built to award sites with lots of links coming in and less going out.

You need to be very careful about giving out links on your blogroll especially if your blog is established.

Why?

Well let’s say you trade 10 blog links to 10 blogs with PR3 and your blog has PR4.  That’s not going to help you get a higher PR.

FYI, you need to trade blog links with other blogs that have at least the same Pagerank as you do.  Otherwise, you are really shooting yourself in the foot and your Pagerank will decrease over time.

Sounds simple but do you actually do it?

Well, I have to admit that I did trade blogrolls in the past very freely.  This is actually good if your blog is new.  But once you get to a certain point, you need to re-organize your blogrolls and make sure everyone in your blogroll is linking back to you.  Don’t link to someone just because they are famous, you are not helping yourself.

Another Tip

Try to trade blogrolls with other blogs with the same ‘niche’ topic as you are in.  The more related, the merrier.

Now, if you follow the above tips, you should start rising slowly with your Pagerank and don’t forget to subscribe to this blog!

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Remember my last post about Quality vs. Quantity?

Well, after doing some testing with most of my blogs, it’s clear now that content isn’t everything.  Quantity can bring you stability of a blog’s growth while Quality can bring you a high number of niche readers.

Why do you ask?

Because content is great, only if you can couple that with great internet marketing.

You can compare to real life business.

For example, you have the greatest product in the world but no one knows about you and you end up selling very few.

It’s the same thing in the blogging world. I know many great bloggers with the highest quality content, yet their traffic, PageRank, and readership never grows over time because they don’t market themselves.

The best way for someone who is not already famous is to blog a LOT. I don’t mean to create splogs but do create original content but you must blog a LOT.

How much is blogging a lot?

Well, if you want to be serious about making money blogging or getting ahead of competition, you have to at least blog as much as your competition. You look at the Top 100 blogs in the world, they all blog no less than 24 posts per day, 1 per hour. I personally do find 1 per hour is most optimal.

If you are not John Chow and you do not already have 20K RSS readership nor 6K unique visitors per day, there is no way you will ever grow in traffic and SEO unless you start blogging like crazy.

Of course, there are always exceptions.  If you are already famous, you are a total expert on your topic, or you simply know “internet marketing”.  If that’s the case, that’s fine but if not, I highly suggest you start blogging at least 3 to 5 posts per day minimum.

Those big bloggers will beat you down and no one will hear your voice unless you can keep up with their blogging pace.

Now, if you ignore my advice and you do 1 or 2 posts per day, you will probably be okay too. (It might take you longer to reach the same goals)

24 posts per day is definitely recommended for all you bloggers serious about going “pro”.  If your topic is hard to write so many posts per day, then do focus on “fun” content.  No one likes to read a Master’s Thesis, but everyone likes a joke, humor, or something to take their mind off the long day.

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