PR leakage

[Sambit]

Hi,

I have few doubts regarding PR leakage/PR Drainage. I have already posted a thread relative to this but today I have come up with some new points that I recently heard.

1. Whether there is anything like PR leakage/PR Drainage?

2. If we use the code target='_blank' for the links, then we can avoid PR leakage.

I want to know whether above two points are logical or not!

[Blue]

Why, oh, why, would you, of all things in a forum that you absolutely know cares not one whit about PR, and where you have a history of receiving virtually the same answer to all your PR questions, bring up yet another in a loooooong redundant line of PR questions??? Why?

[ihelpyou]

Agreed. Please turn off your green bar Sambit. It truly does not help you in any way.

[g1smd]

I am not bothered about chasing millions of links for PR but I have implemented various canonicalisation methods. These reduce duplicate content and they also boost the internal flow of PR. Matt Cutts has hinted that can be helpful on several occasions. Supplemental Results were/are linked to Pagerank too.

For a forum, links to "new thread", "new reply", "send PM", "report post", and so on, would only be available to logged-in users. In that way, those pages would never be spidered, never be indexed, and would never gain any PR. That would preserve "more" Pagerank to go round the real content pages, and not waste any on junk.

As you know, I take great care with the HTTP responses that all the different URL formats on a site could return. It helps protect a site against people linking to non-canonical URLs and it heavily controls exactly which URLs can be spidered and indexed.

[ihelpyou]

Very true.

I think Sambit is concerned about his toolbar PR however. Many people don't realize it is the Google internal PR that matters.

The answer to your question 2 is definitely false Sambit.

[Sambit]

I know that the toolbar PR has nothing to do with ranking and the internal PR really matters.

But these 2 questions I have many times heard from other SEOs (my friends n colleagues).

By the way, thanks for your replies.

[Connie]

There is no such think as RR leakage IMO.

[g1smd]

What little PR I have within a site I would prefer to send on to useful content pages and not waste on pages that should not be indexed in the first place. The fact that solving duplicate content issues also helps with boosting the internal flow of pagerank is a bonus. Two issues solved with one simple site design method.

[Irony]

When people talk about "PR leakage", they usually mean that if they link to other sites, PR will be lost for them and go elsewhere, so they "hoard" it using JavaScript or nofollow attribute.

What you say about correct flow of PR within the same site, G1, is absolutely correct, but I think Sambit was asking about a completely different thing.

[g1smd]

I am never all that sure what he is asking... but I do know that the subject of Pagerank or Links always seems to be involved.

[Connie]

I am never all that sure what he is asking... but I do know that the subject of Pagerank or Links always seems to be involved.
I relate to that. But I think what Sambit is asking is "does a page loose PR when linking to another page". I guess another way to phrase this is "does outgoing links on a page hurt the PR of that page"?

IMO a page does not loose PR because of outgoing links. The amount of PR any page can pass will be split among the outgoing links on the page. So if a page has 10 outgoing links it will pass more PR to the pages linked to, than it will with 20 outgoing links.

The originating page does not loose any PR due to the outgoing links.

Controlling the flow of PR IMO is a completly different matter.

[g1smd]

Yeah, and I'll send the PR to the dozen or so URLs where it is needed, and deny it from being sent to the dozen or more where it is not.

[Sambit]

Thanks Connie.

Controlling the flow of PR

What does it mean?

[Australianfranchises]

yes sambit,
My question is also related to this one so i am not placing a new thread,
But actually there may be something hidden to use target=_blank...