Back in November I made a post Titled, Page Rank Twitter Profile. This was a tutorial I created showing how to increase the page rank of your twitter profile page. I got a lot of mixed reviews about this strategy. Finally I can say I was right on the money... Matt Cutts clearly says that the page rank on your profile will effect how your twitter profile page ranks in the search engine in the video called: Does PageRank of Twitter Profiles Matter?

So the question... is getting your Twitter Profile page ranked in the search engines important or even necessary? ...A BIG YES!!

I don't care how you are or what your sell or promote... the more listings you get indexed the more traffic and the bigger your distribution online is.

Now... as for the "nofollow" tag on the link in your profile bio. Google says... and even Matt Cutt's says that a nofollow tag does not help your search rankings. ...Ok

Than why do I get nofollow links show up in my Webmaster Tools? Google is not going to tell us everything. I'm not saying they lie... but I believe there not telling the whole story when they answer a question.

I'll let you in on a little secret I'm working on testing... and I'm going to use the a scene from the movie, The Gladiator to give the analogy. Maximus was told, Win the crowd and you win your freedom.  I look at nofollow tags this way. I believe that if a link that has a nofollow tag gets a lot of quality links to it, then Google rewards that link with freedom... and that's all I'll say about that for now.

I wanted to talk today about a way to increase not only traffic to your YouTube channel, but how to increase its authority. I call it the YouTube Secret Authority Loophole. Why call it a loophole? Because I believe one day Google will wise up to this secret trick and turn it off. Kinda like the link in your Twitter profile at first was a dofollow link, and is now a nofollow link. So, take what I am about to describe to you and use it while you can...

First let me explain what Page Rank is...

Google's algorithms use a rating system called page rank in order to help them determine the authority of a web page. This rating system is on a scale from 1 - 10. Ten being the highest and best rank in the scale, and only Google really knows what the factors are for raking a web page. What we do know is that if a web page with say, a page rank 6 links to your web page with a dofollow link, your web page will gain some PR 6 rank juice which will help increase your page rank. The higher page rank your web site or page gets, the more authority it has (in most cases) the more traffic Google will send to it. Page Rank will also help a webpage rank higher in the search results.

What does Page Rank have to do with YouTube?

Well I believe it plays a very important factor in getting your channel and videos not only more views, but video thumbnail images in the SERP's. This can also be backed up by what Matt Cutt said in the Google Webmaster Central video, "What factors influence video results in Universal Search?". You can also see the effect page rank has on YouTube. Below is a screen shot of the Nigahiga Channel who has the most subscribers on YouTube at the moment. A wopping 1,955,990 subscribers. If you notice you will see his channel has a page rank of 8, and note all of his videos have well over 1 million views each! Now that's authority... Baby!!

YouTube Secret Authority Loophole In a Nutshell

If we take a look at my YouTube channel. (You can see this by using the Firefox browser and downloading the Firebug plugin.) If your look at the screen shot below you will notice WHATTHEBUCKSHOW commented on my channel 4 months ago. If you look at the html code below then you will see there is "no" nofollow tag in the code. Which means any page rank juice I have on my channel is flowing over to the WHATTHEBUCKSHOW channel.

YouTube is rewarding you for being part of the community! I started commenting on other peoples channel with high page rank  about 6 months ago and already my channel has a page rank of 4! Notice I only have a few videos. Now I am sure no matter how many channels I comment on... my channel will not get to a PR 8 any time soon. Mostly because I don't have any videos that have gone viral with over a million views.

So the loophole is leaving comments on other channels that already have high page rank.  This will in turn let their page rank juice flow to your channel and increase your page rank.

Take advantage of this loophole while you can and start benefiting from it. Take 5 minutes next time you are on Youtube and leave a few channel comments. Do not spam!! Leave real comments and maximize your online marketing efforts. Have you seen an advantage of using this loophole? Please leave me a comment and tell me your thoughts...

I am thinking of making a post on YouTube Optimization. Is that something you would like to know more about? Let me know in your comment... Thanks! )