Today I am going to look at my external and internal links to determine which ones should be “nofollow” links and which ones should open in a new window.
I am not a PageRank hog, but I do not see any reason to pass PageRank to any external websites except for comments and possibly other blog posts.
I also do not want to pass PageRank to certain internal pages, like my Privacy Policies.
As for whether or not to open a new window my rule is simple, all external links should open to a new window while internal links do not.
I do not know about you but I hate it when a website opens new windows for internal links. I end up with many browser windows opened for one site.
However I do want to open a new window when someone clicks an external link because I do not want them to forget about my site.
To make these changes depends on the theme and plugins used.
Some themes are “SEO” optimized which I hope means you have complete control over your internal and external links in the theme.
Some plugins will have options for “nofollow” and whether or not they open in a new window. Many do not.
No matter which theme you have you will still have to deal with plugins and may have to dig deep and make some code changes.
Below are some videos on how I modified my theme and plugins to achieve my linking goals.
Make sure you click the Full Screen icon in the bottom right of the video after you start to play, otherwise you are not going to be able to see what I am doing.
Video 1 – Overview
Video 2 – Modify “Find me on” Plugin
Video 3 – Top Commentators Plugin and Text Widget
Video 4 – Google Friend Connect and Networked Blogs
Video 5 – WP-Policies Plugin and my Theme Footer
Video 6 – A closer look at editing WordPress plugins
Video 7 – Theme Header
Video 8 – Comments
I know that is a lot of videos so here is a quickie summary.
1. Whether modifying a theme or plugin to find external links in the code search for “href=”
2. Once found you should see coding like “a href=http:” etc
3. I find the best place to add my code is between the “a” and the “href=”
4. To make a link “nofollow” add rel=’nofollow’ or rel=”nofollow” depending on how the code is using quotes
5. To force a link to open in a new window add target=’_blank’ or target=”_blank”
6. A little tip – use \” instead of just ” if the coding is confusing, ie target=\”_blank\” – by doing this you do not have to worry about how the coder is using quotes in their code
And that’s it 
You could always just tell your webmaster what your goals are for internal and external linking and they can take care of it for you.
Me, I like to fool around with code.
Peter Fuller MBA CA
905-566-1927
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#1 by Jupiter Jim on September 21, 2011 - 12:51 am
Peter,
OK, I just watched the 5-minute video on comments. CommentLuv let’s the commenter have a dofollow link back to their blog post that is specified. However, you have the nofollow for their blog URL home page or main web address. If I leave that one as a dofollow , what are the downsides? Will that have a negative effect on my Google Page Rank? I have a PageRank of three. If I follow (no pun intended) all of your advice on dofollow and nofollow links, I guess your saying that will also help my Google Page Rank, correct? Think it will be enough to bring me up to a Page Rank of 4 ? Just wondering. Thanks for all your Major effort here! Are you shooting those videos with Camtasia?
Thanks,
Jupiter Jim
#2 by Jupiter Jim on September 21, 2011 - 12:33 am
Peter,
What can I say? Tons of thought and lots of effort went into this post and these videos. I didn’t watch them all because I don’t use all the plugins and I do use Thesis Theme. The videos I watched were very clear on where to paste those rel=”nofollow” links.
If a comment has a link back to their blog, that’s a reward to the commenter for commenting on my blog. Are you saying that should be a dofollow or nofollow link? Someone else made a comment about this above and now I’m confused. I haven’t watch your whole series in order, yet, but I plan to do so soon cause it’s such good stuff.
Thanks, again!
Jupiter Jim
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#3 by Peter Fuller on September 24, 2011 - 10:11 am
I give a dofollow link to every comment using CommentLuv plugin. Here is my strategy – I make my blog a nofollow blog then I add strategic dofollow links. Commentors should always be rewarded with a dofollow link.
#4 by Pastor Sherry on August 4, 2011 - 11:19 am
Hi Peter,
This is sure a lot of information! I think I gained a broad overview of what you’re doing, but when it comes to details, I have to have someone hold my hand — especially when it comes to changing code, etc. Thanks for putting all this together!
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#5 by Martin on July 30, 2011 - 3:55 am
Hi Peter,
I have to admit i sometimes prefer internal links opening in new windows, when the website has a difficult structure and i’d have a hard time remembering where i started from. But these cases are only exception, off course.
Thank you for the summary, it helps a lot. But i promisse i’ll also finish the videos when i get some spare time.
Martin
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#6 by Dereck on July 14, 2011 - 4:04 pm
Hey Peter,
Great posting my friend! Every time I come here and watch your progression I learn something new!
I took the “Find me on” plugin as a possible addition to my site, so thank you!
Keep up the good work and I’ll see you again soon.
-Dereck
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#7 by Stevie Smith on July 11, 2011 - 10:43 am
Excellent advice and I agree with what you say about new windows opening up for outside websites, and not for internal pages. The no follow tag is one which has brought some controversies. As a rule, I try not to use it as I monitor closely what goes on in my blog and the links that I add to some of my articles. Since I am the only writer (for the moment) it is an easy task to stay on top of.
Keep the Smiles,
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#8 by tiffany on July 8, 2011 - 11:52 am
Hey Peter, What a wonderful series you’ve started here! I have NoDofollow add-on installed on my FF browser. And I can see all of your hyperlinks are dofollow except name field. Do you suggest us to follow that rule on our blog? Do you think this is gonna help us ranking in search engines. Thanks for your hard work.
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#9 by Peter Fuller on July 8, 2011 - 2:34 pm
Hello Tiffany – Managing your dofollow and nofollow links will help you with Page Rank, which is just one of the things Google looks at when ranking you.
#10 by John on July 6, 2011 - 3:50 pm
Hey Peter,
I totally agree with internal links opening in the same page and external links in a new tab. I find it very annoying when I click on a comment link for example and I get redirected to that site. And if I check its pages, then I have to click the back button a lot of times to get back to the site I was reading in the first place.
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#11 by Peter Fuller on July 8, 2011 - 2:38 pm
I find it annoying too
#12 by Jason Mitchev on July 6, 2011 - 1:50 pm
I am watching your video tutorials and have to admit, I’m a bit confused. However, at the same time, I understand it all better. Thanks for taking the time to cover all basis.
#13 by Peter Fuller on July 8, 2011 - 2:38 pm
Hey Jason, just take your time and experiment. Watching a video helps but actually doing it is where we really learn.
#14 by jim on July 5, 2011 - 11:00 am
Very impressive teaching.I havent got threw all the videos yet but I will by the end of the day.I see a lot I can start doing right now for my blog.
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#15 by Ben on July 5, 2011 - 7:55 am
Hi Peter.
Great amount of info – I usually just change my link to open in a new window in the wordpress edit panel.
But next time I play around in the code I will definitely keep a eye open for the follow/no follow code.
I will have to come back to your site for the first two and the last two parts and see what more I can learn
Ben
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#16 by Steve-Personal Success Factors on July 4, 2011 - 4:02 pm
Peter, thanks for the very comprehensive tutorials! I’m bookmarking this information so that I can take about two months to go through all your videos! Right now I’m in the process of writing content for an ebook I’m putting together, so I don’t have the time to work on the blog tweaking: but I will put it on my list of
“next actions” after I finish my e-book.
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#17 by Raena Lynn on July 1, 2011 - 12:19 pm
Hi Peter,
I am so glad to see that you are in my group again! I started studying your series, How to Attract your Niche to your Blog, Day 1 & 2. Now I have the opportunity to complete the series. I don’t know about you, but it takes a tremendous amount of time and effort to syndicate my group persistently and consistently with quality commentary, so whoever is my group gets first priority!
I really want to convert my blog to have a static landing page. Everything you said makes sense. I’ve already watched parts 1 and 2 and I now have the time to commit to 3, 4, and 5. I’m grateful that you broke up the process into 5 parts.
After watching all of your videos in part 3, I think I’m capable of replacing code to have the control that you have with your blog. My goal is to do a complete conversion and I am really glad that you prepared the videos so I can review as much as I need to and complete the task.
I really do not like when an external link does not open to a new tab and jumps out of my blog. My theme allows me to choose to have external links open in a new tab, so I’m not sure if I have to change code to do that part. I think your explanation is thorough enough to complete that task if I have to.
I don’t like working with code, but I am the webmaster so I need to learn how to do it. I really appreciate this post and I am looking forward to parts 4 & 5. Regards.
Raena Lynn
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#18 by Perry A Davis Jr on July 1, 2011 - 11:31 am
Hello Peter
The information that you are sharing is really valuable. Even though the theme that I use (Thesis) does the coding, watching your video gives me knowledge as to how things are done. See how you developed your sites has helped me with my site. Thanks for sharing the valuable information.
Perry A Davis Jr
Music City
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#19 by Linnea on June 28, 2011 - 8:27 pm
Hi Peter,
Wow, this is a ton a very valuable information! In fact, I may just have to watch your videos all again just to get it all. I’m going to add this to my to-do list and review the status of links on my blogs as well. Thanks so much.
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#20 by Tony Tate on June 28, 2011 - 1:43 pm
Hi Peter-
Great post that was filled with a lot of information. I will definitely have look into the plugins. I am one of those people who makes all my links open in a new window! But from here on out I will be more aware of it. Thanks again
Tony
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#21 by Clare Kelway on June 21, 2011 - 5:33 pm
Hi Peter,
you sure packed the information into this post! thanks so much for your valuable insight and sharing of your knowledge that is way above most of us! I have applied some of these principles to my blog but I certainly have much more to learn as I go. it is a case of balancing practical business building and making a difference with the on-going learning curve.
thanks again.
Clare
#22 by Debbie Lattuga on June 21, 2011 - 2:46 pm
Great post, Peter. I never really understood about follow and no-follow links, except that if you have it set up incorrectly, you pass on link juice.
Thanks for the great primer. I’ve bookmarked to to come back later and do some code digging.
Debbie
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#23 by Bryan McHeyzer on June 20, 2011 - 7:45 am
Hey Peter,
Here from TSA…this is a very comperhensive set of videos.
The code has always escaped me…just can’t seem to understand it….the php looses me everytime.
Will be bookmarkeing your blog so I can come back and spend some time here.
Thanks for sharing these videos.
Cheers
Bryan
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#24 by Lian on June 15, 2011 - 9:29 am
I like your logic of internal and external links, whether to open in the same window or not. Thanks for the videos. Very helpful indeed.
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#25 by Kevin Martineau on June 14, 2011 - 10:56 pm
Hi Peter:
Wow! Very informative post. I have to do a bit more research into whether my links are no-follow or do-follow.
Blessings,
Kevin
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#26 by Linda G. Cox on June 13, 2011 - 6:30 pm
Peter,
I, like others, rely on my theme, Thesis theme to do all my coding for me. I’m impressed with the videos you created to educate us! I appreciate you getting the information out there in a way we can learn and dublicate!
Linda
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#27 by KarenSaulmy@hemorrhoids on June 13, 2011 - 1:39 am
I have thought that by making your links no follow you are in fact not helping your blog at all because they go nowhere , must be a very newbie comment.
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#28 by Steve Dooley on June 10, 2011 - 12:53 pm
This is great information Peter. I had used some of the “nofollow” code in my links, but I was never sure how and why to do it. You really simplified the linking strategy for me. Internal = no follow and same window and external = new window.
Thank you.
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#29 by Shanae Branham on June 8, 2011 - 12:10 pm
Hi Peter,
I just jumping for this third post of five and was blown away. I am new to blogging and the internet. Code used to be so mysterious, but you are taking the mystery out of it. I was so impressed with your post, that I am going to mark it so I can return and read the first ones in the series. This is great information.
Cheers,
Shanae
#30 by Mandy on June 7, 2011 - 3:31 pm
Hi Peter, you weren’t kidding when you said you liked to fool around a bit with the code!
Very comprehensive video series.
I have to admit, I hadn’t really thought about opening internal links in new tabs or not. I tend to always open everything in a new window because very often I haven’t finished reading the page I was on & want to be able to go back easily. But I have to admit, sometimes when I go to close my browser, it is annoying to have one website open in about 6 different windows
As for ‘do-follow’ or ‘no-follow’, I say ‘c’est la vie’! I try not to get too hooked about about it. Will be interesting to come back and read the results of your research. Thanks for the post
#31 by Cartoon Coach on June 7, 2011 - 4:05 am
Hey Peter,
This is a great series you have here. I am glad I came across your blog.
J
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#32 by John Gaydon on May 28, 2011 - 8:52 pm
Hi Peter,
To follow or not to follow is an interesting subject.
I find, in general, that allowing follow on links encourages more of them and more comments.
Metaphysically, if you share the love and allow others to use your PR, you can get a lot more links which google likes!
Just got to keep those spammers at bay though. You don’t want them stealing your link juice!
You share too much valuable information here!!
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#33 by Trudy on June 5, 2011 - 3:01 pm
Stealing link juice is becoming less important these days and communities like commentluv are prevailing. Just because google is the biggest kid in school, doesn’t mean that the some of the smaller kids will be pushed around into their way of thinking.
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#34 by Andrew Walker on May 25, 2011 - 8:40 pm
Hi Peter. I really love to read your articles. And i’ve been reading these…series(?), and I’m waiting for you to post the part 4 and 5. Keep it up mate! Thanks for your sharing!
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#35 by Donna Merrill on May 19, 2011 - 10:53 pm
Hi Peter, I like the tutorials. They were easy to follow – even for the non-techie person like me. I can understand part of it, but need to bookmark it to see it over and over again to apply the things I have to do.
Oh Boy…This was so valuable
Thanks,
Donna Merrill
#36 by mabu on May 19, 2011 - 4:07 pm
Both internal and external links have their search optimizing purpose it all depend on what you want from opening such links but i do think opening only links that can boost page ranking is more beneficiary.
#37 by Joyce Penner on May 17, 2011 - 8:48 pm
Excellent post and I loved the multiple videos that fed into each other. Picked up some super tips.
Thanks !
Joyce
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#38 by Angela Arnold on May 13, 2011 - 2:05 pm
Awesome post, Peter, but I don’t want to have another thing to remember. I guess I am in the majority here. I don’t pay too much attention to do-follow and no-follow links.
Google keeps changing the algorithms so I don’t know how much difference it makes. I guess I’d just rather focus on creating great content, linking, etc. I just think I might feel more than a bit overwhelmed by focusing on all of this SEO stuff.
I’ll try to implement as much as I can though. Thanks for sharing.
So much to do and so little time…
Angela
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#39 by Dr. Erica Goodstone on May 11, 2011 - 9:02 pm
Peter,
I know this is really valuable information. But lately, I am seeing many private clients, writing a lot, working on a teleseminar series project – not enough hours in the day to focus on making these SEO type changes. I am more like Beverly and will probably hire someone to do the major html code changes to fix any problems. Thank you for information.
Erica
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#40 by TK Goforth on May 10, 2011 - 10:04 pm
yay! So good to find this information, Peter — just what I have been looking for! Looking forward to more vids!
TK
#41 by Beverly Monical on May 6, 2011 - 1:33 pm
So much information here.I know it is great to know these things but it really overwhelms me.I would rather pay someone to do all this because I have messed something up before.If it is easy,I will do it…I appreciate the trainings.I will keep this in a safe place so when I am ready I will see if I can do it with your help.Thanks for taking the time to teach us.
#42 by Emma on May 4, 2011 - 1:55 am
Hi Peter,
Oh my goodness, there is so much information here and so clearly put! I’m a non techie and usually try to ignore all the behind the scenes stuff!
I do love playing with the theme code to make little changes so I’m grateful for all the new knowledge I gained here!
Thank you.
Emma
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#43 by waterpearls on May 3, 2011 - 8:20 am
Hi Peter,
It is a very nice and helpful post with videos.Thanks for sharing your lots of knowledge here.You give great ideas of how to attract our niche to our blog.It is very informative and helpful post.
takecare
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#44 by Andy Nathan on May 2, 2011 - 9:39 pm
The quickie list at the end is great way to make sure that your links are crisp.
#45 by Adrian Campbell on April 30, 2011 - 12:55 pm
Wow peter,
There is a ton of great information here. I have watched the first two videos and I am getting some good points myself, even though I have been doing this for a while myself. Thanks for the great info!
#46 by Samantha Dermot on April 22, 2011 - 9:53 pm
It is really nice to know that you can totally customize your own page in order to get a benefit from it. Much better to see a good result in a much detailed manner as you have expected. Same here, I’m used to have a new window whenever I do the browsing so yes, I would choose it than just simply staying in one window. It won’t help me track my browsing activities.
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#47 by Adrian Campbell on April 15, 2011 - 1:23 am
Thanks for the video on the top commentator plugin. I have been looking for something like that for my blog. The tutorial was helpful. Also you your information was extremely through and helpful, thanks again!!!!
#48 by William Earl Amis, Jr. III on April 9, 2011 - 9:48 pm
Peter,
You have presented this information, to a complex subject…WordPress Blog establishment, wonderfully.
I love the videos, which makes following all the procedures, a breezed…
The step by step demonstrations, play a key role in putting a twist on the activity, required to complete, when building a blog. This is the key platform, where all our projects, will be launched.
You have shown great leadership, in stepping up to complete this amazing, teaching platform.
I thank you and please, continue at the level of greatness, achieved! Peter, very well done….
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#49 by Ali Mujtaba on April 4, 2011 - 5:58 pm
Hi, Peter.
You have a great post here. I hate ‘too much New windows’ too, it is annoying. it is hard to find the post before because there is no “back” button on the new page post. sometimes I need to know the connection between post #1 and post #2
Regards
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#50 by Aloys@Yeast infection in men on March 27, 2011 - 2:40 pm
Great hands-on info. Super helpful tutorials and tips, even for more seasoned WordPress users. I have to look into making outgoing links no-follow
Thanks Peter!
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#51 by Louise Steiner on March 26, 2011 - 3:20 pm
Hi Pete
Wow….that’s incredible information….thank you so much. I’m not very techie, but I am learning and I do love playing around with code….especially when I can make something work
Your tutorials are so detailed, even I can follow them and I have just learnt a ton of new tricks.
I’ll have to come back to your site to fully absorb all the information though.Thanks again.
Louise
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#52 by Maggie Lancy on March 14, 2011 - 4:25 pm
Wow! You put alot of work into this post and information!
You explained everything and then you put together all of the videos.
Thank you so much for sharing.
#53 by DailyAppNews on March 12, 2011 - 5:34 pm
You give video, and then you add the tutorials. It’s amazing..Video and tutorial will make your information is easy to be understood
#54 by Lesly Federici on March 11, 2011 - 9:41 am
Being a novice, lots to understand especially the follow, no follow. I have seen those options and never knew what to do with them… this is soooooo helpful Peter …
#55 by George on March 10, 2011 - 9:45 am
Hi Peter,
This is like a whole marketing bootcamp, awesome stuff! I love the way you setup this website and thanks for sharing everything with us.
What I love about WordPress is that it seems to come up with a plugin for just about everything you can think of.
A lot of people don’t know much about coding so your tutorials are great.
Can’t wait to hear some more from you!
Take care,
George
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#56 by Dr. Erica Goodstone on March 10, 2011 - 12:20 am
Hi Peter,
A lot to digest at one time. Even though you explained NO-Follow, I do not understand how not following someone else’s page can affect YOUR page ranking. It may increase their PR.
Second question is, I know this is elementary but I still don’t quite get it, “all external links should open to a new window while internal links do not.”
What do you mean by a “new window.”
I have learned so much of the tech stuff and coding and yet there is so much I don’t quite grasp.
Thanks.
Erica
#57 by Patel Urvisha on March 9, 2011 - 6:26 pm
I see more and more video tutorials on all the blogs i read and that left me no choice – i will make video tutorials when i will make changes on my blogs. I like what you do with your internal and external link and probably i will do on my own blog. I never thing about this thing before.
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#58 by Coaching with John Komatsoulis on March 9, 2011 - 4:59 pm
Fooling around with code?
Your so brave Peter, that’s all Greek to me
My first time here and I very impressed with you blog content.
Your video’s are clear and informative, I look forward to Day 4.
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#59 by Parekh on March 8, 2011 - 12:20 am
Plugins are very useful in blogs. It can almost help a blog owner in managing his/her site. All of these functions upon activation so no big deal at all.
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#60 by Steve Shoemaker on March 4, 2011 - 8:46 pm
Wow Peter are you starting a membership site here. Some great content will have to check this out. Thanks for all your hardwork man.
Steve
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#61 by Peter Fuller on March 6, 2011 - 11:33 am
Thanks Steve!
And thanks for all of your great tutorials and tips, I always enjoy them.
#62 by Beth Allen on March 4, 2011 - 3:35 pm
What a thorough and impressive post Peter! I have to be honest, I am not a techie at all, and really don’t like spending time on this sort of thing. I was intrigued by your suggestion to keep internal links from opening in a new window ~ I’ve always made ALL my links open in a new window ~ because I personally hate when I click a link as I’m reading and it DOESN’T open in a new window and I’ve now lost the post I was reading. And when people don’t open an external link in a new window (and sadly SO many don’t), I get really frustrated and don’t feel like going back to their post bc they certainly aren’t making it easy to!
I’ll have to think this over regarding internal links….as for the rest of it, well, perhaps someday…:)
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#63 by Peter Fuller on March 6, 2011 - 11:32 am
Interesting point Beth
But here is the thing, if the content was compelling why did they click the link
Sometimes we may make a reference to another post with the idea of interlinking our blog posts. So why not save those links for the end of the post rather than the beginning or the middle.
#64 by Jayne Kopp on March 3, 2011 - 3:44 pm
Gosh Peter! What a lot of work you put into this post. This is jam-packed with value and lessons.
I will definitely have to come back and re-listen to may of these videos.
I am not technical. I have a few skills, but I’m certainly not as gutsy as I’d like to be.
I found it interesting you don’t like new windows to open within your site.
I always do open new windows because I felt that my readers (all million of them) might like to have the post open to finish reading my gripping content after I momentarily distracted them with one of my other awesome posts!
(that was in jest, by the way).
Thanks so much and I look forward to implementing some of your advice.
It is obvious you know a thing or two about a thing or two!
Jayne
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#65 by Peter Fuller on March 6, 2011 - 11:29 am
Thanks for such a nice comment Jayne.
Opening a new window when someone clicks an internal link is a decision to be made based on the type of link it is.
However I was at one site recently that before I knew it I had ten windows open for just their site.
I see no reason to do that
#66 by Allegra Sinclair on March 2, 2011 - 12:00 pm
Hi Peter,
Wow! This was a lot of easy-to-apply information. And thanks for including the text summary for those of us who just had to know the conclusion at the beginning. I didn’t know about several of the plugins you mentioned so I will check them out. I will second the earlier request for you to tell us a little more about the reasons for dofollow or nofollow. Have a powerful week! Allegra
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#67 by Peter Fuller on March 6, 2011 - 11:26 am
Hey Allegra
Thanks for the comment and I did answer the question below.
#68 by Cheryl James on March 1, 2011 - 4:06 pm
I like these videos. it gives me a chance to formulate some ideas on how I am going to makeover my blog.
I have to guess from the comments here that you are still doing keyword research? I am looking forward to seeing that part of it as well. Keep up the great work and I hope it achieves the results you are looking for!
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#69 by Peter Fuller on March 6, 2011 - 11:25 am
Hey Cheryl
Yes I am still doing keyword research but I have falling behind in the redesign due to my main source of income talking up my time during the last few weeks.
I will be back on track this week.
#70 by Daniel on February 25, 2011 - 5:33 pm
I Peter,
I am not a Pagerank fan either. I think what matters most is the value we give to our readers. In my case, I only put the nofollow tag to untrusted external links. I do not mind placing a link to peterfuller.org because I know is a trusted source. In my opinion, this pagerank sculpting issue is overrated. According to Matt Cuts this not longer works in internal pages using the nofollow tag. However, this can be achieved using elaborated javascript links.
In the case of which links must have the “target=_blank” attribute, I think only external links must have this attribute, I do not want take away my readers from my blog.
Thanks for sharing those videos Peter, I had some trouble watching them but I did. Despite I do not use wordpress plugins but my own CMS, I often take a look at the code of them for adding new features to mine.
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#71 by Peter Fuller on March 6, 2011 - 11:23 am
You raise some good points Daniel.
I also do not believe in going overboard on pagerank sculpting.
However even Cutts makes a reference to adding nofollow to his own RSS feed.
So for internal pages I use it sparingly, like for my RSS feed and the necessary :Terms of Conditions” type pages.
#72 by Sue Collier on February 21, 2011 - 9:03 am
Hi Peter,
Must admit when I started reading and saw all your videos, heart dropped at the thought of all that code and difficulties…..Luckily, as everyone seems to agree you are a great teacher and have a really good way of explaining things, so it was all much easier than I expected.
Thanks for this – now I have to go back and check out number 1 and 2 of this series:-)
Sue
#73 by Peter Fuller on March 6, 2011 - 11:19 am
Thanks Sue, for me it is easy but I do know that for many it looks like greek
#74 by Golda Smith@Network Marketing Success for Mompreneurs on February 19, 2011 - 4:34 pm
Peter your videos were so simple to get through. You gave a ton of value. I have never really given much thought to the no follow or do follow internal vs. external links. It’s just one of those things that I’d rather outsource to someone as I may totally mess it up. I do see the value in it and thank you for sharing.
Golda
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#75 by Peter Fuller on March 6, 2011 - 11:18 am
Hey Golda
For many outsourcing to your web-designer is the solution.
Just do not leave the decisions to them
#76 by Nicole Rushin on February 19, 2011 - 3:57 pm
I think you should back up a step and explain what ‘no follow – do follow’ means. Afraid I was a little lost here, but it is interesting to know that we don’t have to have our internal links open in new windows. That is something I can quickly change and fix.
#77 by Peter Fuller on March 6, 2011 - 11:11 am
Hey Nicole
“Nofollow Dofollow” are just directions to the search engine on whether or not you want to pass page rank to a link. From Google’s point of view it is about whether or not you trust the website you are linking to.
I do not believe in going too crazy about creating “nofollow” links. I just do not think there is any reason to pass page rank to the big sites, like facebook etc especially if my facebook profile is already linking back to this blog.
I prefer to give all of my great commenter’s dofollow links
It is certainly a controversial subject, especially with the latest google slap.
#78 by Julieanne van Zyl on February 16, 2011 - 6:51 am
Hi Peter, wow, you’ve done a lot of work in this post. I use the Thesis theme so thank goodness a lot of this work is done for me. Although, thesis is supposed to be “easier”, I found it more difficult at first, because I’d become used to “hacking” away at the word press php files.
I don’t like “new windows” on the same site either, I was a member of a training site, where a New window opened up for everything I clicked on. It was really annoying and takes up too much memory on the computer.
Have fun with your coding! regards from Julieanne
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#79 by Peter Fuller on March 6, 2011 - 11:16 am
Hey fellow coder Julieanne
Some have questioned whether or not it is a good idea to open new windows if someone follows an internal link.
I would say 99% of the time it is not necessary, especially with the reasons you give, thanks.
#80 by Maria Pavel on February 16, 2011 - 4:23 am
Hi Peter,
This is one of the greatest courses I ever followed, congratulations on it! It’s really great and easy for us to read your courses, we have everything we need within this courses. I totally agree with everything said in this course, and I got to admit it – I love your courses. I am going to follow your blog daily, bookmarked! Thank you very much for sharing these great courses. Keep up the good work!
Best regards,
Maria
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#81 by Peter Fuller on March 6, 2011 - 11:14 am
Thanks for your nice comment Maria
#82 by Gary Young- china Sourcing on February 13, 2011 - 9:54 am
Peter,
Wow, this is a serious course. I honestly do not have time now to watch all the videos, but I am scheduling time on my calendar to view all your videos. This is pretty awesome
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#83 by Peter Fuller on March 6, 2011 - 11:13 am
Thanks Gary
#84 by Guy Santeramo on February 13, 2011 - 9:52 am
Hey Peter,
Thanks for the post and the videos – no doubt we want to attract visitors to our blog but getting your target market is key.
You put a lot of work in giving us this information – and I much appreciate it.
Thanks
Guy
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#85 by Peter Fuller on March 6, 2011 - 11:13 am
You are very welcome Guy
#86 by Kevin Martineau on February 12, 2011 - 9:54 pm
Hi Peter:
Great info. on WordPress! I just switched to WordPress two weeks ago and it has been a steep learning curve. You have given me a lot of good tips.
Thanks!
Kevin
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#87 by Peter Fuller on March 6, 2011 - 11:05 am
Good stuff Keven, WordPress is not the only choice for a blog, but it is certainly the best
#88 by Ilka Flood on February 11, 2011 - 4:22 pm
Hi Peter,
Somehow I missed this one. But I’m ready to go to work and make some changes.
Thanks for these great step-by-step video tutorials!
Ilka
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#89 by Peter Fuller on March 6, 2011 - 11:04 am
You are very welcome Ilka
#90 by Yasser Khan on February 10, 2011 - 12:38 pm
Hi Peter!
Actually this is very similar to the changes I was making to my blog’s external and internal linking recently.
I play around with my plugins to seamlessly integrate them into my blog’s look and feel, as some default features are too different.
Is there a particular reason you happen to use your image and details right at the bottom of your blog, rather than as the header beside your name?
Yasser
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#91 by Peter Fuller on March 6, 2011 - 11:04 am
Hey Yasser
I wanted people to see my ugly mug when they left a comment
I will have a picture on my home page when it is completed.
Good question, thanks!
#92 by Oliver Tausend on February 9, 2011 - 4:06 am
Hi Peter,
thanks for these amazing videos. I made some changes right away and made a whole bunch of external links “no follow”. Awesome. Have I already mentioned that you are a great teacher ?
Take care
Oliver
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#93 by Peter Fuller on February 9, 2011 - 10:16 am
He Oliver
Thanks, I was worried the videos would be too technical.
One very important thing to remember, if you make changes to your theme or plugins then you need to keep track of them.
I save them in a spreadsheet.
The reason, if the theme or plugin has an update you will lose your changes.
#94 by Devesh @ Technshare on February 8, 2011 - 9:58 pm
Awesome resourceful post Peter. Great work.
Video 1 is fantastic and very helpful for new bloggers.
Thanks for sharing this great post.
~Dev
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#95 by Peter Fuller on February 9, 2011 - 10:17 am
Thanks Devesh!
#96 by Vivek Parmar on February 8, 2011 - 9:06 pm
recently come across your blog through facebook and found lots useful information here. thanks a lot going to check out other posts also.
Having a dofollow and nofollow links on your blog is always a topic of discussioon because most of them says its not good to give away your link juice to others while others think that by making a dofollow you will get more comments on your blog and increase readership on your blog
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#97 by Peter Fuller on February 9, 2011 - 10:18 am
Hey Vivek, the solution, make all external links nofollow except comments
#98 by Heather C Stephens on February 8, 2011 - 8:25 pm
You are a genius, Peter!
I walked through your video perfectly and updated the links in my footer as well as adding the WP-Policies plugin. Thank you for all the great training!
Heather
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#99 by Peter Fuller on February 9, 2011 - 10:19 am
You are very welcome Heather and I have enjoyed your “All in One SEO” series
#100 by Mavis Nong @ Attraction Marketing on February 8, 2011 - 4:52 pm
Hi Peter,
You have been busy eh?! You’re sharing a ton of information here. I love your video tutorials – easy to follow and very helpful.
Well done!
Mavis
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#101 by Peter Fuller on February 9, 2011 - 10:20 am
Hey Mavis, busy yes, but also under the weather, dragged my feet around all last week and spent most of my time sleeping.
But now I am 100%
#102 by Liz on February 8, 2011 - 9:25 am
Peter, I like how you’ve added your videos here, it makes for a nice logical step through.
How’s the static home page going? Are you noticing a difference is visitor time on your blog yet or is it too early to tell?
Liz
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#103 by Peter Fuller on February 9, 2011 - 10:22 am
Hello Liz
No results yet on the static page because I have not yet seo optimized.
I am still dong keyword research.
#104 by Marcus Baker on February 7, 2011 - 7:42 am
Hi Pete,
Wow there is a lot of great information to be had here and I love all the easy to follow video tutorials.
I have to admit I am guilty of making all links open in new windows. It will be interesting to read what others think about this as a kind of market research exercise.
~Marcus
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#105 by Peter Fuller on February 9, 2011 - 10:24 am
Hey Marcus
Okay, stop doing that, opening internal link sin new windows that is
I am still doing my market research and it is quite fascintating seeing the various results.
#106 by sem media on February 7, 2011 - 6:06 am
thanks for sharing the video
keep posting
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#107 by Peter Fuller on February 9, 2011 - 10:25 am
You are very welcome Sem
#108 by Left Or Right Brained on February 6, 2011 - 11:43 am
I usually put the nofollow tag when I have links in my post. I haven’t really thought about looking at the plugins and add the nofollow tag too. Maybe that’s why my Page Rank hasn’t increased in years! Thank you for this valuable information, Peter!
Cherrie Bautista
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#109 by Peter Fuller on February 9, 2011 - 10:26 am
Hey Cherrie
You are very welcome and if you are inclined take a look at the plugin code, it is easier than it looks