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17 commentsThursday, June 4, 2009

Google PageRank: Sullivan & Cutts discuss nofollow

Bad news for PageRank Sculpters

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Why Am I even surprised?

OK where to begin.....

I didn't realized that nofollow was created to be used for pagerank sculpting your own site. Silly me I thought it was for....
"nofollow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct some search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target's ranking in the search engine's index. It is intended to reduce the effectiveness of certain types of search engine spam, thereby improving the quality of search engine results and preventing spamdexing from occurring."

I'm glad to see that G changed their mind and endorsed it for use as a sculpting tactic....So people would redesign their websites that way....To only change that a year or so later and cheat people out of their hard earned 'juice'.

Just another example of G creating a system making everyone conform to it and then changing the rules.

Guess that's one of the perks when you are a monopoly.

Google pagerank and Google search engine

Good article and very well written.
Its known fact that, behind Google search result, google pagerank designs the algorithm and to improve pagerank, it needs clear understanding and organised and consistent approach.
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i learn something new

Thanks. Very interessting Article. Good work.

Sculpting

Keep up the good work. I learn something new every time I check out your posts.

Great article on SEO

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Keep it up i liked this very much.
Regards,
Vaishali

Great article

Hi friend
This is a best SEO article i ever read ,
keep it up

I wouldn't worry about it

I was never a huge fan of sculpting anyway. Cutts always said never to put too much effort into it, but of course, people did because it's something that they can do and it's easier than link building or writing decent content!

This changes lots of things

This changes lots of things in the world of SEO. If some SEO persons missed on this change they could be hurting their clients right now and not knowing it.

helpful to webmasters

Thanks for collecting the points together that Matt Cutts have regarding pagerank sculping, this is quite helpful for the webmasters.

Good tips, thanks for the

Good tips, thanks for the info

Footer Links

Hmm, so those navigation footers with 15-30 links aren't a good idea anymore...

Many webmasters will surely

Many webmasters will surely be interested in checking this out. Gives more efficient for high ranking websites.

Interesting....

"Now, instead of having a certain amount juice to distribute as a webmaster likes, Google allows only that select pages be deprived of juice. And where does that all that excess PageRank juice go? “You can almost think of it as just evaporating,” said Cutts, and one imagines the number of stomachs turning over at that moment."

There must be a "good" reason why they are doing it. Hope you follow up and get more info to us about why Google makes these decisions. Maybe it's to be more fair to everyone who uses and pays Google to use their site for advertising.

Why?

I wonder why they Google is doing it?

i did not know this

i knew this only today.I thought nofollowing certain links will allow other pages get higher PR.

Excellent

Great break down. Many webmasters and website owners need to look at this. Understanding the flow of link juice and quality of links will save tons of time and make us more efficient in ranking our websites and creating a focus on important areas of your website.

No Sculpting!?

*Gulp* Time to revisit the information architecture...

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