diff --git a/GraphNode.js b/GraphNode.js
index a9e9157..85caaf8 100644
--- a/GraphNode.js
+++ b/GraphNode.js
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ class GraphNode {
     }
   }
 
+  // TODO: move affinity to LayoutNode
   setAffinity(nodes) {
     const INF = 999999;
 
@@ -63,6 +64,11 @@ class GraphNode {
       if (node.label == this.label) {
         this.addAffinity(node, (d, v) => v[0] == 0 ? 200 : 500);
       }
+
+      // Try to preserve pagerank left-to-right flow from initial positions
+      let rankSign = Math.sign(node.pageRank - this.pageRank);
+      this.addAffinity(node, (d, v) =>
+                       [Math.sign(v[0]) == rankSign ? 0 : -500, 0]);
     }
 
     for (let to of this.links) {
diff --git a/LayoutNode.js b/LayoutNode.js
index 0ecaf35..bdc349b 100644
--- a/LayoutNode.js
+++ b/LayoutNode.js
@@ -36,10 +36,17 @@ class LayoutNode {
       // Avoid calling sqrt(), since the results are used relatively
       let distanceSquared = vec[0] * vec[0] + vec[1] * vec[1];
       let weight = aff.distanceToWeight(distanceSquared, vec);
-      for (let i of [0, 1]) {
-        this.vec[i] += (weight * vec[i]) / vecsum;
+      if (weight instanceof Array) {
+        for (let i of [0, 1]) {
+          this.vec[i] += weight[i];
+          this.tension += Math.abs(weight[i]);
+        }
+      } else {
+        for (let i of [0, 1]) {
+          this.vec[i] += (weight * vec[i]) / vecsum;
+        }
+        this.tension += Math.abs(weight);
       }
-      this.tension += Math.abs(weight);
     }
   }