Using Yahoo Answers and Blog Comments To Raise PageRank
Posted on Apr 13, 2010 in Blog | 14 comments
A lot of people are wondering if placing their link on Yahoo Answers is going to raise their pagerank. After all a lot of Yahoo Answer pages have a very decent pagerank. So in theory you should be able to get some PR juice flowing back to your site!
Well that is wrong, it will not work. Why you ask? Because all of the links that are placed on Yahoo Answers are nofollow links. What this means is that Yahoo has put a script on their site that automatically makes all the links not followable so Google will not pass the PR juice back to your site.
In order to get the PR juice the links have to be dofollow links.
As a madder of fact most of you don’t even realize this but when you are posting your comments on a blog in an effort to get a back link it does not even work.
Most blogs now have installed a nofollow script stopping all back link and PR juice from leaking into your link that you left in the comments. I see so many people still wasting so much of their time thinking that they are getting all of these great back links when in fact they are getting nothing from it at all.
Now thats not to say that other readers are not going to click on your link and check it out, so you may get some traffic from it, but probably not enough traffic to even waste your time with.
Let me know your thoughts below!
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This is a great post Jason, many people who are new to the SEO world do not realize there is even a difference in links. I do not waste my time with blog comments to try to get traffic or help in the SERPs. I only use blog comments to communicate with others…
-nick
Thanks Nick,
I don’t know how many times I have seen people getting so hyped up over leaving comments thinking they are getting PR juice! LOL
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