Your website could be losing valuable page rank with the major search engines and you don't even realize it. This problem is slowly seeping page rank to other web sites, moving your web site further down the list during web searches.
The issue with your web site that I am talking about are outbound links. Outbound links are the links within your pages, post, sidebar, footer, and comments that point to another web site on the internet.
What happens when a search engine spider finds your WordPress blog to index the content, it will copy all the text on the page. After the web robot copies the text on your WordPress blog, it will then follow all the hyperlinks on that web page. Once the web crawler follows a link it will continue the process, whether it is on your other web pages or another persons blog.
In order to optimize your WordPress blog, you will need to add the nofollow attribute to your outbound links. A common hyperlink on a web site will look like this. To add the nofollow tag to your outbound links it would look like this.
What I recommend that you do is go through all of your WordPress post and add the nofollow attribute to all the outbound links that you don't to want to give page rank to. I don't recommend adding the nofollow attribute to all the outbound links on your blog, since this isn't really friendly to fellow web site owners and you might want to help them out.
But if you happen to have outbound links on your web site that point to major search engines like yahoo, google, twitter, facebook, etc. I would recommend using the nofollow attribute in this instance , since why would these major web sites need any more page rank anyways?
Another great way to use the nofollow option to optimize your blog is by using it with your comments. The nofollow attribute works especially great for spam comments, as long the comment content relates to your web site. I don't recommend using the nofollow tag on all outbound links within the comments, since some comments are legit.
But if you are receiving alot spam to your web site, which you probably are. You mine as well make convert these useless spam comments, into great content for wordpress blog as long as the comments relate to the subject of your WordPress blog.
A great plugin that you can use to add the nofollow tag to your comments URLs is the NoFollow Case by Case plugin. The NoFollow Case by Case plugin will allow you to specify for each comment, whether you want the major the search engines to follow the link or not. If you don't want the seach engines to follow a comment link, simply open up the comment that you want to edit; then add "dontfollow" to the end of the link.
http://spamcommentlink.com/dontfollow
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