Targeting Spam > NoFollow and PageRank Sculpting is it Worth the Effort

Michael Gray - Graywolf SEO Bloghttp://www.wolf-howl.com/seo/nofollow-pagerank-sculpting-worth-effort/ [Michael Gray - Graywolf SEO Blog] I have always thought that some folks take PR sculpting way to seriously. Although, I kinda wonder if we as consultants should be thinking about these issues for smaller sites we work with, to prepare them for high volume, or do we just revisit them in a year and make changes then?

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MT-Soft Website Developmenthttp://www.mt-soft.com.ar/2008/10/16/pagerank-sculpting-parsing-the-value-and-potential-benefits-of-sculpting-pr-with-nofollow/ [MT-Soft Website Development] PageRank Sculpting: Parsing the Value and Potential Benefits of ...: Looking at the diagram above (which is overly simplistic, but illustrates the basic concept), if Google, for example, had a threshold of 1.4 link juice units to keep a page indexed or re-crawl every X days, this use of nofollow could be exceptionally valuable. It’s also the exact behavior you can observe in the test above - at a certain level of link juice, the engines no longer keep the pages in their index and by using nofollow, we can flow more juice to the pages we care about.

SEOmoz Daily SEO Bloghttp://www.seomoz.org/blog/pagerank-sculpting-parsing-the-value-and-potential-benefits-of-sculpting-pr-with-nofollow [SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog] SEOmoz | PageRank Sculpting: Parsing the Value and Potential ...: Looking at the diagram above (which is overly simplistic, but illustrates the basic concept), if Google, for example, had a threshold of 1.4 link juice units to keep a page indexed or re-crawl every X days, this use of nofollow could be exceptionally valuable. It's also the exact behavior you can observe in the test above - at a certain level of link juice, the engines no longer keep the pages in their index and by using nofollow, we can flow more juice to the pages we care about.

ahadproject dot com[ahadproject dot com] Page Sculpting SEO Wordpress | ahadproject dot com: One other way of page rank sculpting is having important links on most of your pages. That is why I write my most important content as WordPress pages, as this way they get automatically listed on the sidebar, insuring presence on all of my blog pages.

Website Magazinehttp://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/2008/08/15/google-pagerank-sculpting-for-seo-profit-part-2.aspx [Website Magazine] Google PageRank Sculpting For SEO Profit (Part 2) - Website ...: Although most PR Sculpting starts with your index page because typically your index page has the most incoming links and thus the highest Google Page Rank, don’t limit yourself to your index page. For example let’s say you have created a great new magic widget that’s become a great new linkbaiting vehicle for your website.

AudetteMedia[AudetteMedia] 8 Arguments Against Sculpting PageRankâ™ with Nofollow | AudetteMedia: Sculpting with nofollow is simply a Band-Aidâ™ placed on a site to fix a symptom: the cause of the symptom is poor site architecture. When you treat the symptom, you don’t address the underlying cause.

SEOmoz Blog Commentshttp://www.seomoz.org/blog/6-lessons-from-the-search-engineers-at-smx-east [SEOmoz Blog Comments] SEOmoz | 6 Lessons from the Search Engineers at SMX East: I just want to make sure that everyone understands what Aaron, Nate, and Sean were saying when they suggested that affiliate links are juice passing and are OK. I don't think this goes against the spirit of the argument Matt Cutts makes.

SEO Book.com -http://www.seobook.com/robots-txt-vs-rel-nofollow-vs-meta-robots-nofollow [SEO Book.com -] Robots.txt vs Rel=Nofollow vs Meta Robots Nofollow : SEO Book.com: But there are differences between a newbie blogger nofollowing outbound links to horde PageRank, Wordpress auto-nofollowing comments to discourage link spam, a big CMS site nofollowing links to a Privacy Policy page, and a seasoned SEO using nofollow specifically to channel PageRank. How would Google tell the difference?

SEOmoz Daily SEO Bloghttp://www.seomoz.org/blog/why-new-content-briefly-flickers-out-of-google [SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog] SEOmoz | Why New Content Briefly Flickers Out Of Google: Kind of agree with Paul Pedersen above - I think it was originally Google conspiracy to get rid of SEOs by provoking heart attacks (when discovering your new website, briefly ranking no 3, has dissapeared without trace.)

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