I have some odd blogs at My content experiments website. Google has given them a pagerank of zero despite some good links coming in. They are the autoblogs I created with the Rss2Post plugin.
I guess the issue is that google figures out that they are extracts from the google alerts rss files. I need to randomize them a little, but one of the things I do now is cloak all the external links. They have a rel=”nofollow” on them and then go to the blog root where they are redirected to the original link.
I have written a WordPress Plugin Cloak-Links-Plugin to hide the links from search engine Robots. I submitted it to WordPress.org today, and I am wondering if it will pass muster. They have some rules about what plugins are good and bad, and I see this one as a gray area. I would not be surprised if it was rejected, though. I wrote it for a personal site and I don’t make any money off of any of these plugins so I will not argue with anyone about whether or not a plugin is appropriate or not.
Check back in January to see if the pagerank on Gthread.com has gone up.
Not all of the sub pages on Gthread.com have been converted to blogs. It is too much like work. I will do a few conversions each week, but I’d rather work on plugins and my literary efforts.