Google PageRank Feed is Fully Turned Off

Google has reportedly decided to do away with the PageRank scores option in the Google Toolbar. That means, the next time you’re browsing the internet using a tool or your favorite browser that previously allowed you to track PageRank data from Google, you won’t be able to do that anymore. This is because Google has finally cut the link that allowed a browser to fetch data from Google.

Google Fully Turns Off Toolbar PageRank Flow

Google does use PageRank internally and it is still an important factor in their algorithm. But the external PageRank score shown in these tools and the Toolbar was between 0 and 10, whereas the score used by Google internally is way more complex.
Google has been killing off PageRank in the toolbar for years and years. In 2007, Google asked webmasters for feedback on removing PageRank and then in 2009, Google removed showing PageRank like data in Webmaster Tools (Search Console). But in 2013, Matt Cutts told us Google probably will never kill off PageRank in the toolbar. Well, Matt is no longer there and it was done.
Then in 2012, Google stopped updating external PageRank by accident updated PR in December 2013. 

Talking about PageRank score, it had been quite a while since Google updated the PageRank scores. This is because Google had been trying to downgrade the importance of PageRank score which also added up to your Google search ranking.

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The Complete Guide to Google Penalties

A Google penalty is a phrase that strikes fear into the heart of every SEO and digital marketing manager and it is the latest SEO update now online. Getting hit by an algorithmic or manual penalty can seriously affect your site traffic, and with it, the number of leads you have coming in. There are lots of ways you can find your site penalised, and for the most part, they are connected to spam and black hat SEO.


Sometimes though, a site gets hit that wasn’t expecting it. This could be due to any number of reasons, such as duplicate and thin content, suspicious ‘toxic’ backlinks, and more. If you’re hit by a manual penalty, then you will get a message in Webmaster Tools to inform you of this. However, if you’re hit by an algorithmic penalty, then it’s not so easy to tell. And worse still, algorithmic penalties mean that even when you’ve cleaned up your site, you remain penalised until the algorithm crawls your site again.

Why Have I Been Hit With a Google Penalty?

A manual action (penalty) is applied to a site when a Google employee manually checks the site and finds suspicious activity such as evidence of purchased links. Manual penalties can be costly and time-consuming to put right. It’s usually necessary to track down all links that could be considered toxic and ask for them to be taken down. Often, it’s not possible to get all of them taken down so some links will also have to be disavowed.

Once the site is cleaned up, you can then submit a reconsideration request to Google, who will look at the site again and determine if it’s OK to go back up. Reconsideration requests are not always granted though and you should keep detailed records of all the work that has been undertaken in order to clean up the site.

An algorithmic penalty occurs when a site scores poorly during an update. For example, last year eBay was hit by Panda 4.0 and it was thought at the time that this was due to thin content on the site’s product pages. The Panda algorithm update scores a site’s content. If it’s found that the content is poor quality, with bad spelling and grammar, or the site has duplicate or thin content, then the site will suffer a drop in rankings.

Know Your Algorithms

There are a few updates that can affect your site’s ranking. Panda was released in 2011 and was intended to penalise the above as well as excessive advertising. It’s thought that Panda updates occur about once a month, and they tend to vary in size. The initial rollout in 2011 was the largest though and it had a huge impact on many businesses.

Penguin was implemented in 2012 and is far more concerned with web spam than the content of a site. It looks for spam sites and content scrapers rather than legitimate sites and unless you’re engaged in black hat practices, it’s unlikely that you’ll be hit by this.

Black hat SEO practices include:

• Keyword stuffing – the practice of repeating keywords over and over in text in order to fool the search engines. In modern SEO, keywords remain important but you should use sparingly alongside contextual words and phrases.

• Cloaking – when a site returns different pages to the search engine than the ones that the user sees. It’s intended to fool search engines into thinking a page is about something different than it actually is.

• Link building – some link building tactics, such as when a site swaps links with a link farm or exchange, can be considered to be black hat.

• Gateway/doorway pages – these are often stuffed with keywords in order to achieve better rankings. They differ to straightforward landing pages as they are usually over-optimised and may contain little in the way of content.

Pirate was also born in 2012 and targeted sites that contain content that violates copyright on more than one occasion. Torrent sites have been popular targets of Pirate and for that reason, torrents have all but disappeared from search listings.

Secure Update came about last year and gives more weight to sites that have SSL security. You may have noted that more and more sites now have the padlock in the address bar and the URL starts with https: this is intended to give peace of mind to visitors.

Mobile Friendly (aka Mobigeddon) update was implemented earlier this year and gives preference to those sites that are mobile ready. This includes performance, an important part of mobile browsing.

There was also a Payday update which looked at removing spammy sites and queries from search results. This update targeted sites that use terms such as ‘payday loans’, ‘casinos’, ‘viagra’ and so on.

Why Do I Need to Know All This?

If you notice a sudden drop in your ranking, then you will need to understand why it’s happened and what you need to do about it. For example, it could be that the site has taken content from other sources and used it on its own site, without asking for permission. Or it could be that the cheap SEO that the site commissioned (which promised to get the site to ‘the top of Google’ for just $99) went and bought up a lot of links.

Whatever the reason, in order to recover from any type of penalty, it’s necessary to know what caused it and what you can do to put it right. From rewriting content, to cleaning up a dodgy link profile, once you’ve cleaned up the site, you should then see your rankings come back to life.

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Importance of Nofollow Links in Link Building

You might be familiar with the terms nofollow and dofollow in regards to backlinks. Nofollow links DO matter in the world of SEO and link building.

What Are Nofollow & Dofollow Links?

    Dofollow: These links tell search engines to “follow” them and pass link juice to help improve a sites ranking.

    Nofollow: These links tell search engines the exact opposite of dofollow and that is to not “follow” them and that the hyperlink should not influence the ranking of the link’s target URL. Google says “In general, we don’t follow them. This means that Google does not transfer PageRank or anchor text across these links. Essentially, using nofollow causes us to drop the target links from our overall graph of the web”

The Benefits of Nofollow Links in Link Building

As I mentioned above, nofollow links do have value in many of their own ways and should not be shied away from. We all know how hard good, white-hat link building has become over the last 5-10 years, and rightfully so. So passing up a good, quality, RELEVANT link just because its nofollowed doesn’t make much sense and here are some of the reasons why:

    Referral traffic: 

A well placed nofollow link, or any link for that matter, has GREAT potential for referral traffic, which leads to...

    Leads: 

If you get a link that drives tons of traffic to your site then your leads will subsequently increase too, which leads to...

    Revenue: 

Depending on if your Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) is up to snuff, all the extra traffic and increased leads should then convert into more paying customers

    Organic Growth: 

This one could be up for debate, but that all depends what side of the argument you’re on. I firmly believe that Google does follow nofollow links, at least somewhat. This would make them one of their MANY ranking factors for organic growth. There isn’t ONE golden ranking factor that will shoot you to the top of page 1, but when you put all of them together is when you really start seeing some great improvements. If you were wondering about any of these ranking factors that Google looks at, here’s an amazing list of all 200 of them that Brian Dean @ Backlinko put together, kudos on all of that work Brian!

    Diversify Your Backlink Portfolio: 

Adding a little diversification is only going to help you in the long run. You don’t want to have a backlink profile with all of the same kind of dofollow links from only a few domains. If you do, chances are Google will notice and might think it’s a bit unnatural, and you don’t want to get on their bad side. Just like your financial portfolio, diversification is key.

If you are getting increases in traffic, leads, and hopefully customers, as well as seeing organic growth in rankings and traffic all from some nofollow links, then it is absolutely important in SEO link building.

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Blog Commenting Sites List 5

Howdy! It’s the fifth month of the year, and we’re releasing the fifth part of our list of blogs for blog commenting. To continuously increase the number of sites pointing to your website – build more links. For you SEO, we advice you to do it naturally, slowly but regularly. Visit the blogs listed below and feel free to leave a comment on each blog sites. If this is your first time viewing this list, you may view the other parts of our blog commenting sites list.

DoFollow Blog Commenting Sites List

	Blog URL	Alexa Rank	PageRank
1.	http://www.thelucrativeinvestor.com	2,200,309	3
2.	http://timwindsor.com	2,769,077	4
3.	http://www.netchunks.com	52,106	0
4.	http://www.blogstash.com	58,620	2
5.	http://rumahabi.com	370,041	N/A
6.	http://blog.winesworld.com	107,324	3
7.	http://www.blueverse.com	169,860	3
8.	http://www.mastersofseo.com	60,684	3
9.	http://www.devduff.com	1,067,445	1
10.	http://www.seo-traffic-guide.de/	626,165	3
11.	http://blog.waxmarketing.com	314,867	3
12.	http://www.newhomessection.com/blog/	278,907	3
13.	http://tycoonblogger.com	222,120	2
14.	http://ineeddiscipline.com	226,101	3
15.	http://pixelheadonline.com/blog/	147,191	3
16.	http://www.bloodhoundrealty.com	501,708	3
17.	http://www.thespinningdonut.com	491,154	1
18.	http://emoneymarketing.com	156,299	3
19.	http://www.teamaguilar.com/blogs/	546,150	2
20.	http://www.icttrends.com	543,989	2

Disclaimer: The above blog commenting sites list were manually checked by the author. Their rankings, Google PageRank and Alexa Rank are accurate at the time of this writing. Feel free to share and post the list above, but please add an attribution or link to our site.

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Blog Commenting Sites List 4

We’re on part four of this series of blog commenting sites list. Coincidentally, our part four list has a lot of blogs with PageRank of four. Check the table below for a lot of PR4 blog sites. If this is your first time viewing this list, you may view other parts of our blog commenting sites list. Leaving sensible comments on these high PageRank blogs will help your SEO and elevate your web site’s ranking.

Dofollow Blog Commenting Sites List

	Blog URL	Alexa Rank	PageRank
1.	http://www.memwg.com	167,711	4
2.	http://www.bestrealincome.com	712,335	4
3.	http://dmiracle.com	192,749	4
4.	http://lillieammann.com/blog/	272,099	4
5.	http://www.gilsmethod.com	281,957	4
6.	http://www.tinafountain.com/blog/	186,081	3
7.	http://bloggingwithoutablog.com	158,169	3
8.	http://www.marketing-results.com.au/blog	334,258	4
9.	http://www.barrywise.com	328,831	3
10.	http://table4five.net	178,079	4
11.	http://www.howtowakeupearly.com	217,755	3
12.	http://blog.dmbcllc.com	390,561	2
13.	http://nthambazale.com	471,459	4
14.	http://www.steverenner.com	237,228	4
15.	http://www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com	322,172	4
16.	http://www.pqinternet.com	370,085	3
17.	http://designlenta.com	777,265	4
18.	http://www.simplekindoflife.com	1,364,171	3
19.	http://www.buzzmarketingwithblogs.com	578,038	4
20.	http://www.randomhacks.net	665,544	4

The list above mostly have PageRank of 4 which is more than enough to leave comments and inbound links to your site.

Disclaimer: The blog commenting sites list above were manually checked by the author. Their rankings, Google PageRank and Alexa Rank are accurate at the time of this writing. Feel free to share and post the list above, but please add an attribution or link to our site.

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What is Blog Commenting

Blog commenting is an essential procedure for interaction between blogs, bloggers and blog readers. It is an action wherein visitors or blog readers leave a comment to a blog post or article, reply to readers’ comments, or the author himself answers or replies to visitors questions and comments. Blog commenting is a good way to exchange thoughts and opinions about certain topic written as a blog post.

Why Do Blog Commenting

You probably realized why blog commenting is essential to blogs. The communication and exchange of thoughts and ideas between the blog post, bloggers and visitors is already an effective way of knowledge sharing. There are other benefits to both blog owners and blog readers.

Bloggers, blog site owners and the blog post itself benefits from blog commenting.

• Blog comments will keep the blog post updated – search engine loves updated contents. Regularly updated contents have a better chance of getting higher rank on search engine results – thus it is good for SEO.
• The blog post increases its value and importance because of user-contributed contents (their comments), considering that your visitors left sensible and relevant comments which will add to your existing contents.

Blog commenting people benefits in leaving comments on blog posts.

Obviously, both bloggers and web site owners may also become commenting on other blogs.

Web site owners and bloggers can increase the inbound links to their site through blog commenting. As you might have noticed, the blog commenting systems of blogging platform such as WordPress (which we also use to power this blog) have the Name, Email and URL fields. By including your website’s URL on the URL field, you’re leaving a link back to your website. Blog commenting is actually a very effective way to get backlinks and an essential ingredient for search engine optimization. For SEO purposes, we made lists of blog commenting sites together with dofollow blogs list.

Blog commenting ones can ask questions and answers through comments and replies from the author, or from other readers who may share related information.

Blog Commenting System

Since the web is an information gateway, blog commenting is a good channel for exchanging information across the web. In SEO perspective, it is one of the most effective ways to increase backlinks and traffic to your website.

Modern website and blogging platforms that are used as the backbone in building blogs and web sites such as WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, and similar content management system has blog commenting system that allows visitors to leave a comment on a blog. Blog commenting became an essential feature of Web 2.0 web sites which involved web site visitors to interact with other visitors, the author, or the web site itself. Without any doubt, we can say that this is a good piece of link building method.

Do you often comment on blogs? Let us know your thoughts by leaving us your comments below.

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