Thread: help:What is Google PR leaking?
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Old 01-05-2009, 11:35 AM
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Default Re: help:What is Google PR leaking?
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Originally Posted by kgun View Post
So the conclusion is:

If you do not put the rel="nofollow" attribute on external links, you leak PageRank to the external page.

Related thread:
Internal and external links and the rel="nofollow" attribute
Correct kgun.

However, the end result of external links can be positive, negative, or neutral because PR is a function of links that point to a page in the aggregate.

Dave
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