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[The Brave Programmer] Blogging from the Brave Programmer - NoFollow or DoFollow, That is ...: Hello, I read your article about nofollows and was surprised to see you have nofollows in your comment sections you said "Now if everyone adopts the idea of nofollow, then there will be no link love going around, nor sharing of pagerank. This in itself is counterproductive, as eventually, pagerank will be meaningless, because there is none going around." I am just learning the art of seo and am thankful for the good read though.

[WebProNews - SEO] Does Google Penalize Paid Links in Javascript? | WebProNews: Matt reiterated that Google has gotten better at crawling javascript, and that URLs you put into javascript that you didn't think would be crawled, might now possibly be crawled and indexed. He says the vast majority of people who do javascript links are ad networks and that Google handles these very well.

[Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO] Digg adds nofollow to some links: For example, how often has the mantra about building quality links with other sites been repeated, taking an extreme case of everyone using nofollow links, sure it might reduce pointless links and spam but where would this leave link building or PR (or am I missing something). I can see why sites such as wikipedia or Digg and a few others would want to use it but in my view webmasters/designers will be reuctant to use it, or even attach much priority to it’s use.

[The Forums At Poker Affiliate Listings] Nofollow and external nofollow - The Forums At Poker Affiliate ...: The fact now that Google also does not seem to care anymore about nofollow tags as it found a way to combat link sculpting, maybe we should not put so much emphasis on it anyhow. It follows the nofollow link anyway it just did not work it into its PR formula, but so it could still see what the semantics were of your site.

[SEO Consult - Certified Search Engine Optimisation Agency] NoFollow Link changes | SEO Consult - Certified Search Engine ...: However NoFollow links are today treated a little differently by Google.  Link Sculpting by this means can do harm instead of good.  While a NoFollow link will still pass no PageRank it is now divided equally amongst the links regardless.  So whereas before if you linked to 10 pages each would receive a 10% share of Page Ranking, yet if you included a NoFollow on five pages the remaining would receive a 20% share.  This no longer applies; regardless of the fact that you have used NoFollow links on five pages you will be receiving only a 10% share of page ranking.

[Speak Without Interruption] Look who follows NoFollow links!: The site was indexed at Google.  (How, why and whether Google should index orphan sites that have not been released to the public is a topic for another post.) Google showed no backlinks, but the site did rank #8 at Google for one very important search, based primarily on the name of the domain. It did not show up in the top 100 for a few other key searches.

[[Re]Encoded.com] How To Preserve PageRank On A Wordpress Blog | [Re]Encoded.com: The no-follow link relation is the thing that tells the bot from google not to follow that link. This allows your visitors to visit the links but the search engines will ignore them.

[Ramblings of an Unknown] Enough 'do follow' - Back to 'nofollow': reason being, Matt cutts revealed a while ago that pagerank sculpting is no longer at work. So you wont actually save the PR by removing dofollow, you’ll let it evaporate!

[David Leonhardt's SEO and Social Media Marketing] David Leonhardt's SEO and Social Media Marketing » Look who ...: The site was indexed at Google.  (How, why and whether Google should index orphan sites that have not been released to the public is a topic for another post.) Google showed no backlinks, but the site did rank #8 at Google for one very important search, based primarily on the name of the domain. It did not show up in the top 100 for a few other key searches.

[The journey of DannySKom] The journey of DannySKom » Brief Explanation About the Positive ...: As the owner with “NoFollow” setting as default, they will get real visitors (Visitors who are always coming because the content of your site is considered as good or useful for them) and the visitors will always coming as long as you can keep the good job for content. Any other site that are referring your site will increase your inbound link and since you will not give lots of outbound link, your rank with Google will be increased for sure even tough it will need some time.

[SEO Blog] Google Attempt to Demystify Duplicate Content Issues: Whilst it has been widely accepted for some time that having individual URLs all leading to the same page may be harmful to your ranking, Google have now broken their silence and suggested quite the opposite. Although in true Google style they stopped short of saying anything too definitive.

[Affilorama : Affilorama Blog] The future of nofollow and pagerank sculpting - Rand Fishkin ...: Now the evaporation thing with Google saying that now you can't conserve pagerank by using nofollow, I think means that smart webmasters are going to use different systems right? They're going to use, whatever - I'll only show you this navigation if you're a cookied user, I'll only show you this navigation if you have javascript of flash available - well actually javascript's not going to help cos Google crawls that now.

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