Pages that leak pagerank
If your homepage has a pagerank of 4 and it links out to only 1 outgoing page, then the outgoing page gets all the benefit of the pagerank of your homepage. However if the homepage is linking out to 10 pages then each page will get only 1/10 benefit of the original pagerank. The obvious step is to reduce the number of links on your homepage that are not adding to any ranking increase.
Check your homepage links to any of the following pages and nofollow all of them
- About Us page
- Contact us page
- Feed-subscription link
- Logo/Home/Header Keep maximum 1 link and nofollow everything else
- Archive page Unless you want to rank for January, february modifiers
- Privacy page Especially after the recent change in adsense TOS, you must have added a privacy page. Make it nofollow
- Outgoing Links inside your post body Make intelligent use of more tag
Ajith has detailed post about pagerank leak. Do check it for a detailed discussion of the topic
* I do not mean the toolbar pagerank. I am talking about actual Google pagerank
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