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[Daily Blog Tips] I am clueless in SEO, never paid much attention to link practices and openly against nofollow. My blog has PR 4 in the end.

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[Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO] PageRank sculpting: If I’m writing a page about the use of the vCard microformat on a page, it absolutely makes sense for me to link out to the definition where it was originally published, and improves user experience as well as lending authority to my arguments. Often as SEOs we get obsessed with the little things, claiming that its hard to get links on particular subjects, and that is pretty true, but its mainly our own selfishness in linking out to authority content that prevents other people giving us the same courtesy.

[ovblogger : SEO News - WordPress - Marketing Blog» OVBlogger: SEO News - WordPress - Marketing Blog] ovblogger : SEO News - WordPress - Marketing Blog » Blog Archive ...: What Matt Cutts is telling everyone now is that “no follow” no longer transfers page rank to the bare links. So, basically, by using no follow, you're merely wasting PR.

[Hobo] Matt Cutts Kills Internal Pagerank Sculpting With Nofollow? | Hobo: Google's Matt Cutts is attempting to clarify PR Sculpting using Nofollow for the rest of us after the recent hulabaloo surrounding his comments at a SEO conference a short time ago. It can be a useful tool in a site redevelopment, but from here on in, I'll be keeping nofollow for bad neighbourhoods and, pending further testing, on top level blog pages, using Andy Beard's Nofollow Dupes (ED - actualy that's back for now for externals) although this site is still a .

[SEO blog - SEO Tips, Social Media Marketing for the learner.] Page Rank Sculpting using Nofollow - Clarifications from Google ...: Matt Cutts has shocked the SEO world with his recent revelation about the use of nofollow tag in Page Rank sculpting- at least some part of the SEO world, those who believed in page rank sculpting with nofollow tags. For the others, its more of a confusion.

[Search Marketing Blog from Cincinnati, Ohio] PR Sculpting”¦Told Ya So | Search Marketing Blog from Cincinnati, Ohio: Matt Cutts published an interesting post about the technique SEO's understood as PR Sculpting today: Matt Cutts Blog: PageRank sculpting · SEOmoz has a nice follow up post as well. OK so what do we take from this?

[WebProNews - Google] Google's No-Follow Changes Explained | WebProNews: The debate that arose during SMX Advanced as to whether or not Google was changing how they handled no-follow in terms of PR sculpting has now been answered. The big surprise in all of this is that they apparently changed it all a while back, but at the end of the day it was pretty much the change we were anticipating anyway. 

[vBulletin SEO Forums] [Blog] Matt Cutts: PageRank flows and nofollow - vBulletin SEO Forums: Originally, the five links without nofollow would have flowed two points of PageRank each (in essence, the nofollowed links didn’t count toward the denominator when dividing PageRank by the outdegree of the page). More than a year ago, Google changed how the PageRank flows so that the five links without nofollow would flow one point of PageRank each.

[Search Engine Watch Blog] Google Further Clarifies Nofollow and PageRank Sculpting - Search ...: The notion of "PageRank sculpting" has always been a second- or third-order recommendation for us. I would recommend the first-order things to pay attention to are 1) making great content that will attract links in the first place, and 2) choosing a site architecture that makes your site usable/crawlable for humans and search engines alike.

[TechPavan.com] Analysis of SEO Impact due to Updated Google's Nofollow Policy: Related posts:How To Convert Video to FLV - Flash Format Video Conversion Videos of different formats can be converted into flash format and converting to flash format...How to Convert Windows Movie Maker Project to AVI, MPG, MP4 or Other Video Formats Procedure to convert mswmm format to avi format or any other video format to use...Free Video Audio Extractor Tools to Extract FLV/Online Videos to MP3 List of free video audio extractor tools available as web 2.0 services. Use these web...">Free Video Format Converter to Convert Video Files-Freeware Tool

[mariohost.com] What Are The Benefits Of Blog Commenting In Terms Of Seo ...: Bog commenting is one of the easy way to improve your PR and SERP. However, you need to check whether the blog is dofolow or not, nofollow will not give you PR juice, only dofollow will provide you PR juice

[BlogStorm] PageRank Sculpting & Blog Comments: If every comment is going to reduce the PageRank flowing to my other links then surely I need to start being a lot harsher in my comment moderation. Also Matt seems to be implying that Google actually looks at your nofollowed external links and uses the results in calculating your rankings, does this also mean that nofollow links can pass trust to other sites?

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