Losing Pagerank and The order of Backlinks

Are you concerned with losing Pagerank?

Is the order of the links on your pages hurting your page rank?

There are so many myths and story about what Google does and does not do we all wonder about this at some point.

What is true and what is not?

To answer your question about losing page rank from links that you have received in the past from other webmasters watch this video.

Does Google remove the PageRank coming from links on pages that no longer exist?

Robert Enriquez from Charlotte asks: “Websites lose back links due to other websites going out of business or closing (Geocities, AOL, member pages). Does Google remove the back link juice that once came from these pages?”

Now, Does it really matter what order you put links in your post or page?

Will a link you want to rank for in the middle of your page, have less authority then the backlink you gave to someone else that is at the top of your page.

Is the order of links on a page important for SEO?

Matt from Lexington, KY asks: “Is first link priority an on-page SEO factor? If so, should we modify CSS or JavaScript to show the correct link first?

In summary:  Make sure you continue to write fresh content to get backlinks to your site. Keep the flow of your content consistent( don’t change wording just to make the phrase you want the link for).You can put your links in any order and google will find them and they will have the same authority no matter what order they are in.

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