How Bloggers Can Avoid Google's PageRank Penalites

Blogger Lisa Buben of Inspire to Thrive woke up one morning recently and found that she’d been penalized by Google and, as a result, her PageRank went from 3 to 0 overnight. “I did not have any links for sale or link schemes. So what else would cause a Google Penalty like this to happen and why did Google changed my pagerank overnight?”

Before submitting a reconsideration request to Google, Buben has installed a new plugin called WP External Links to add the “nofollow” attribute (she’d read about how sites like Wikipedia changed all their links to nofollow).

Buben’s experience is a good reminder to be sure sponsored post links and guest posts with outbound links are set to “nofollow” (she wondered if a contributor post may have been the cause of the penalty).