Comments on: PageRank sculpting http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/ neat fun stuff Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:33:38 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Dan in Canada http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/#comment-414659 Dan in Canada Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:42:36 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=2631#comment-414659 If I understand correctly, no incremental link juice will flow to the "followed" links, but on the other hand, using nofollow will still stop link juice from bleeding through links that are followed. If I understand correctly, no incremental link juice will flow to the “followed” links, but on the other hand, using nofollow will still stop link juice from bleeding through links that are followed.

]]> By: Bob in Sunny QLD http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/#comment-407148 Bob in Sunny QLD Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:54:29 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=2631#comment-407148 I've been trying to tell directory owners not to use "Nofollow" on their links. They aren't doing the right thing by themselves, the submitters or Google I’ve been trying to tell directory owners not to use “Nofollow” on their links. They aren’t doing the right thing by themselves, the submitters or Google

]]> By: sam http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/#comment-404854 sam Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:03:42 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=2631#comment-404854 I might look at iframes as that PR should flow to the source and nofollow might make no sense as because why would you iframe it in your site if it has no content to follow? and that spam is usually not a case here because, for example, it is not common to give visitors who place comments the ability to use iframes. On the other hand, one might say that he is placing an iframe for an external source to show something, but not recommending the content and might actually be contradicting with his. And so, nofollow. But what I am really asking about, is what is technically going on in terms of Google PR algorithm? PR Flows with iframes? nofollow works with iframes? I might look at iframes as that PR should flow to the source and nofollow might make no sense as because why would you iframe it in your site if it has no content to follow? and that spam is usually not a case here because, for example, it is not common to give visitors who place comments the ability to use iframes.

On the other hand, one might say that he is placing an iframe for an external source to show something, but not recommending the content and might actually be contradicting with his. And so, nofollow.

But what I am really asking about, is what is technically going on in terms of Google PR algorithm? PR Flows with iframes? nofollow works with iframes?

]]> By: sam http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/#comment-404844 sam Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:33:17 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=2631#comment-404844 Does PR flow to iframes, in particular, external ones? if yes, does rel=nofollow work for iframes, to prevent PR flow to it? Does PR flow to iframes, in particular, external ones?

if yes, does rel=nofollow work for iframes, to prevent PR flow to it?

]]> By: cornea503 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/#comment-404576 cornea503 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:26:56 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=2631#comment-404576 "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." This is so funny. Google stifled the notion of linking to "great content" the minute they let on to how important linking was to passing pagerank. In effect, the importance of links has indeed led to pagerank hoarding and link commoditization which in turn leads to all of the things google doesn't like such as spammy links, link farms, link selling, link buying, etc. What you end up with is a system, much like our economic system, where the rich get richer and poor get poorer. Nobody has a problem linking to CNN, as if they really needed the links. On the flip side who wants make a dofollow link to a site that's 2 days old, great content or not when you can provide your visitors a nofollow link which is just as valuable to them. The whole notion of benefiting from a quality outbound link is a joke, the outbound linker receives 0 benefit when you factor the outflow of pagerank. “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.”

This is so funny. Google stifled the notion of linking to “great content” the minute they let on to how important linking was to passing pagerank. In effect, the importance of links has indeed led to pagerank hoarding and link commoditization which in turn leads to all of the things google doesn’t like such as spammy links, link farms, link selling, link buying, etc. What you end up with is a system, much like our economic system, where the rich get richer and poor get poorer. Nobody has a problem linking to CNN, as if they really needed the links. On the flip side who wants make a dofollow link to a site that’s 2 days old, great content or not when you can provide your visitors a nofollow link which is just as valuable to them. The whole notion of benefiting from a quality outbound link is a joke, the outbound linker receives 0 benefit when you factor the outflow of pagerank.

]]> By: webtechnepal http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/#comment-404227 webtechnepal Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:21:02 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=2631#comment-404227 Hello Matt, I read your post carefully. I've always been concerned on making high page rank. This posts help me. Thank you so much Matt. http://www.nepalihotels.com Hello Matt,

I read your post carefully. I’ve always been concerned on making high page rank. This posts help me. Thank you so much Matt.

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]]> By: Pulkit http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/#comment-403562 Pulkit Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:18:34 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=2631#comment-403562 The web was created with the intent of sharing information, not hoarding it ... While nofollow attribute is a great way to not vouch for information on certain sites, it's definitely not a useful tool to increase your site's pagerank ... A second reading of the post reveals that the post is more about pagerank flowing out of your site than being contained within. The only ones who need to worry about who they are linking to are the ones who are linked to very often. So unless your site has a high pagerank, you may or may not use nofollow and it will not make much difference. Having great posts is a great way to have links flow towards your site and have a high pagerank. As the engine techies say "There's no replacement for displacement". The web was created with the intent of sharing information, not hoarding it … While nofollow attribute is a great way to not vouch for information on certain sites, it’s definitely not a useful tool to increase your site’s pagerank …
A second reading of the post reveals that the post is more about pagerank flowing out of your site than being contained within. The only ones who need to worry about who they are linking to are the ones who are linked to very often. So unless your site has a high pagerank, you may or may not use nofollow and it will not make much difference.
Having great posts is a great way to have links flow towards your site and have a high pagerank.
As the engine techies say “There’s no replacement for displacement”.

]]> By: mike http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/#comment-401314 mike Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:03:47 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=2631#comment-401314 Everyday you see evidence as this might just be the wrong use of tags considering no follow. Look at the tagging they set up for google place pages. Everyday you see evidence as this might just be the wrong use of tags considering no follow. Look at the tagging they set up for google place pages.

]]> By: Trabajo Freelance http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/#comment-400883 Trabajo Freelance Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:05:27 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=2631#comment-400883 I've been concerned about nofollow attributes for quite a while. It was hard to convince my boss about what was being said about this, but thanks to your post now realizes how it really works. Thanks Matt. I’ve been concerned about nofollow attributes for quite a while. It was hard to convince my boss about what was being said about this, but thanks to your post now realizes how it really works. Thanks Matt.

]]> By: Jesus Sordo http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/#comment-400813 Jesus Sordo Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:55:32 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=2631#comment-400813 Hi Matt (and everyone), Two weeks ago I changed a few internal anchor text links for a HTML SELECT Label in order to save some space in the menu bar. Today, when I saw in Google the Cache (text-version) page of my site I realized that all the links in the HTML SELECT Label cannot be followed. So I understand that Googlebot doesn't follow this links and obviously there's no inbound 'link juice'. Is that so? Thank you and excuse my english, it's no my mother tongue. Hi Matt (and everyone),

Two weeks ago I changed a few internal anchor text links for a HTML SELECT Label in order to save some space in the menu bar. Today, when I saw in Google the Cache (text-version) page of my site I realized that all the links in the HTML SELECT Label cannot be followed. So I understand that Googlebot doesn’t follow this links and obviously there’s no inbound ‘link juice’. Is that so?

Thank you and excuse my english, it’s no my mother tongue.

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