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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Does PR Sculpting Work?

4 Comments

By Kosmo (WPN reader) - Wed, 02/25/2009 - 09:08

Why not?

Matt Cutts comment about nofollow is from 2006. Many things changed since then. I'm testing PR Sculpting for about 3 month but haven't seen any effect yet. Still waiting.

By Jerry (WPN reader) - Fri, 04/18/2008 - 21:38

I have tried both methods and tested them on a variety of websites. On a particular website about Used Buses I have used nofollow to reduce duplication, and initially went one step further by trying to sculpt pagerank. After months of testing I realized there really was no sizable effect. Furthermore, the risk of adding nofollow to any links in the site outweights any benefit imho of using this technique.

It is my belief that a natural looking website would be one that does not have 'tampered' links in the website. Understandibly external links may need to be nofollowed for a variety of reasons, but internally, to me, this makes no sense.

By nass (WPN reader) - Thu, 04/10/2008 - 06:21

My personal experience. I

My personal experience. I thought I'd try this out, so added some rel="nofollow" stuff to my forums. Within 12 hrs, Google had ceased to index any new pages from my forums at all, usually it indexes 50-100/day. I removed them, and bham, back to 50-100/day being indexed. So be careful with this. As Matt Coutts said at www.mattcutts.com/blog/quick-comment-on-nofollow/, "The rel="nofollow" attribute is an easy way for a website to tell search engines that the website can’t or doesn’t want to vouch for a link". In other words it's not seen as a ringing endorsement of quality, so when you mess with your site and your PR you're saying parts of your site are dodgy.

By earnest (WPN reader) - Sun, 04/06/2008 - 06:02

no follow for affiliate links

I think a lot of webmasters in the affiliate world use "no follow" on affiliate links so that they will not get penalize by Google for excess affiliate links