PageRank Sculpting: Don’t Send PageRank to wp-login.php
31 Mar, 2009 | Written by Glenn Crocker | under SEO
Looking today at a client’s blog SEO, I noticed that they’ve got PageRank heading to their wp-login.php:
There was a stray sidebar link that didn’t have a rel=”nofollow” on it, so I made the change (using the WordPress in-browser theme editor):
A second link to the login page was at the bottom of each post. The code change was in comments.php for the theme I was using:
Then I re-scanned using A1 Site Analyzer and PageRank is no longer flowing to that login page.
A simpler way to do this (but wasn’t an option on this particular site) is the Meta Robots plugin from Yoast. Good stuff.
