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[ReveNews] Then, at a recent Search Marketing Expo, Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s Webspam Team, announced that nofollow tags can no longer be used to sculpt Page Rank (PR) anymore. Although this change has been in effect for over a year, this announcement was the first clear indication that the nofollow tag could no longer be used this way.

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