Gravatars2 Plugin Drains Pagerank

While installing Gravatars2 plugin for Wordpress on another site, I noticed the plugin drains tons of pagerank to the Gravatar site. Gravatars are cool and almost mandatory for a Web 2.0 community driven site. I’m not sure if this intentional or not but anyone using the plugin should be aware of the fact.

To stop the pagerank leak, open the gravatars2.php file and find line 1603 - it should read something like this:

$imagetaglink = "<a href='$url'";

Change line 1603 to:

$imagetaglink = "<a href='$url' rel='external nofollow'";

Adding “rel=’external nofollow’” to the link will save your pagerank.