Comments on: The PageRank sculpting techniques and the nofollow issue

By: Google Webmaster Videos: Do multiple links from one page to another page count? | Web SEO Analytics

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:31:57 +0000

[...] and what exactly are the effects of outgoing links to the total Energy. Similarly to what the PageRank sculpting technique is trying to achieve, the authors of the article describe the effect of those outgoing links on the [...]

By: David Mon

David Mon — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 23:25:47 +0000

Thanks for the info I really found this to be helpful.

Dave

By: Chris Countey

Chris Countey — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:33:22 +0000

Thanks for the article. Have you read or heard (from Matt maybe) if Google considers the ratio of nofollow to follow links? And if we use nofollow to sculpt interal pages (like using nofollow for a terms and conditions page), will that send a mixed message to Google about our site’s integrity?

Thanks!
Chris

By: Contempo

Contempo — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 19:41:41 +0000

I have for the longest tried to figure this out, and as one commenter posted if this works, it’s definitely going to be a killer. Sculpting has been nothing but a tedious task for me, of course we want to maintain a great neighborhood with valuable sites without diminished value…Great post

By: The robots.txt, META-robots & rel=nofollow and their impact on SEO | Web SEO Analytics

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:26:50 +0000

[...] In the past (before 2009), during PageRank calculations, the nofollowed links were just like they did not exist and they did not affect positively or negatively the PageRank distribution. Unfortunately after 2009, an update took place and the nofollowed links started to evaporate the amount of PageRank that they receive. In order to learn more about this update and in order to find out how to solve this issue read the article “The PageRank sculpting techniques and the nofollow issue“. [...]

By: roman

roman — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:36:57 +0000

Thanks for the usefull infos, we`ll see how long Google handles the nofollow attribute in this way…..

By: Paris Accommodation

Paris Accommodation — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:55:30 +0000

I thank you for sharing this information useful. interesting to me that the concept of SEO is one that experts think Google simply does not care, but I want to know more clearly whether there is any difference when making multiple methods, appropriate not?

By: bbriniotis

bbriniotis — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:38:05 +0000

@graywolf: Interesting thought Michael. Nevertheless I strongly believe that if this was the case there would be many references from PhDs in the literature (mainly in scientific journals). Google people tend to release parts of their research and if you read closely you can get few clues.

Of course this does not mean that the PageRank is calculated just by dividing the number page PR with the number of links (as stated in the article we use this example for simplicity). Certainly the editorial value of each link comes into the game and there is lots of research in the academic community on this issue.

By: graywolf

graywolf — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:14:15 +0000

let’s just imagine that hypothetically speaking pagerank isn’t divided between the number of links on a page … but that each link can only pass a maximum amount of pagerank irrespective of the number of links on a page.

ie: each link passes 0.5 pagerank, it doesn’t matter how many or how few links are on the page.

Then what really matters is the number of internal and external links your page has.

#justsayin’

By: bbriniotis

bbriniotis — Tue, 18 May 2010 07:41:00 +0000

@Wynne It certaintly works, just view the source of this site and see how we block most of the unuseful links

By: Wynne

Wynne — Mon, 17 May 2010 20:35:37 +0000

Great post on page rank sculpting. Great now I can decide which of my pages are important again – finally. Thanks!

By: Wynne

Wynne — Mon, 17 May 2010 20:33:00 +0000

Wow – LOL – I am laughing all the way to the bank. Finally a real alternative to that BS nofollow tag. How infuriating it is. It evaportates page rank and gives no one any benefit whatsoever. Good one google, way to stuff everything up.

Thanks for sharing this tip – if this works like you describe then it’s killer.

By: Green Energy

Green Energy — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:35:30 +0000

Wow – they just keep making this harder and harder. I’m just going to stick with good content and word of mouth.

By: Bodhost Hosting

Bodhost Hosting — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:23:57 +0000

What is your opinion about comment posting on dofollow blogs. How much its beneficial?

By: Posicionamiento Web

Posicionamiento Web — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:47:44 +0000

Very, very good article.

By: Nofollow and Dofollow

Nofollow and Dofollow — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:21:59 +0000

Great resource here. You can spend literally hours reading about nofollow and its interpretation. Leaps and bounds better than most. We set it up on a clients site and had great results with higher rankings and more pagerank (Toolbar) as of the 31st.

By: my cash now

my cash now — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:56:29 +0000

Those people at google just want to make all the geeks the only people that can sculpt. Thanks for the useful info on how to outmaneuver those jerks. Peace

By: bbriniotis

bbriniotis — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:40:36 +0000

@Derek pagerank sculpting has been around for many years. If you are not a beginner in SEO you should known it’s effect. Some people love it, some people are sceptical about it. Personally i find it very useful tool.

This script is used in this site, just check the html source..

By: Derek

Derek — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:52:32 +0000

This may be overengineering – I’d like to see some verifiable evidence that this has any substantial difference to traffic flow on my sites, otherwise it’s a whole bunc of effort that I could be putting to use elsewhere?

By: Rick McNeely

Rick McNeely — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:14:43 +0000

Great information… thanks!

By: bbriniotis

bbriniotis — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:33:34 +0000

Thank you for your comment. The answer is simple. First of all as a webmaster you can use as many javascript as you wish and secondly and most important this script has a legitimate usage: You can block all the extrenal nofollowed links with javascript in order to make sure that they do not lead to pagerank loss.

By: referenceur

referenceur — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:18:34 +0000

Hi, useful information. You explained fully the PR concept before and after google algorithm’s updating. Hope that all SEO writers behave that way and don’t consider that all the SEOs are experts. On the other hand I wanna ask a question, it maybe appear stupid but I’d like to ask it. What if google consider that this proposed solution technique is fraud?

By: bbriniotis

bbriniotis — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:17:21 +0000

@Cape Town, @SEOux Indianer, @Anders Online Marketing, @Laurie Manny Thank you very much for your comments.

By: Laurie Manny

Laurie Manny — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:09:35 +0000

Geez, I just love all this stuff………..keep it coming! I played with sculpting a bit, its good stuff.

By: Anders Online Marketing

Anders Online Marketing — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:42:12 +0000

I am working with marketing in Denmark and is searching for inspiration in the digital world. Thanks for inspiration

By: SEOux Indianer

SEOux Indianer — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:30:39 +0000

Nice gfx u made. Matt Cutts said, the changes were made a year ago, but nobody noticed that.

By: Cape Town Accommodation

Cape Town Accommodation — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:24:55 +0000

Great post, once again. Thanks.
It’s very useful for a starting-out SEOer like me.