Comments on: PageRank sculpting

By: Efffetti

Efffetti — Sun, 12 May 2013 09:02:05 +0000

mmmhhhh
I see my nofollow links in other sites when I check for SEO. I mean, I comment here, my link is a nofollow but so far it is recognized as a link from here to my site…
I would like to make sure I understand. is the nofollow just to avoid rank leakage but google still crawls this?
thanks

By: Anand Saini

Anand Saini — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 14:21:36 +0000

http://www.seocertification.org.in
my site page rank flow is 89% is good or bad?

By: Colin Bryant

Colin Bryant — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:44:30 +0000

Should have added in my previous comment that our site has been established since 2000 and all our links have always been followable – including comment links (but all are manually edited to weed out spambots). We have never artificially cultivated backlinks but I have noticed that longstanding backlinks from established sites like government and trade organisations are changing to ‘nofollow’ (and our homepage PR has declined from 7 to 4 over the past 5 years). If webmasters of the established sites are converting to systems which automatically change links to ‘nofollow’ then soon the only followable links will be those that are paid for – and the blackhats win again.

By: Colin Bryant

Colin Bryant — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:28:39 +0000

I note that the links in comments here are ‘nofollow’???

By: james Brew

james Brew — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:57:55 +0000

Thanks Matt. thats the first time I have seen page rank explained in any kind of details.

By: JAWAD

JAWAD — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:09:39 +0000

Your position about nofollow link have been changed since this post ?

By: Sreejesh

Sreejesh — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:40:22 +0000

Hi Matt, I have a question about PR: N/A. With the recent update I found many sites including mine went from PR: 3 to PR: N/A. I Googled for Site:mydomain.com to find it its banned, but I found its not banned, I posted this question on Google Webmaster forum and couple of other places but I didn’t get any help to fix it. I don’t know whom to ask, or how to figure this out. Could you please help me out please?

By: kevin blumer

kevin blumer — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:48:10 +0000

What i have learnt with comments only allow them if they give value to your blog i have used this for one of my main blogs bpd and me and it worked i have let comments threw witch were spamee and it just got a google page rank of 2 after a year learning by mistakes google page rank is always going to be a mystery and people will try to beat it they might for a short period after that they get caught out but the people who write good quality content will be the winners and keep writing quality content a question might be does google count how many no follows there are i wounder

By: Tnorth

Tnorth — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:53:47 +0000

There are soooo many opinions on “follow” and “nofollow” and how the various engines use this information. I recommend going to the source (aka Matt) for an answer right out of the horse’s mouth! Thanks for the info!

By: Lowell

Lowell — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 06:07:06 +0000

Re: Cameron’s Comment. Google transparent? Maybe. Great products for users – yes… but they operate from lofty towers. Can’t get a hold of them. Can’t contact them. They are the ONLY company in the world with zero customer support for their millions of users. Who really knows what they are doing from one month to the month in regards to ranking sites… etc.

As for no-follow links, it is my understanding that even a no follow link will ad link juice to a sites page rank. But I agree with Edward that adding to the discussion can also bring traffic from interested partakers.

This is a great site you have here Matt. Lots of traffic. No Google ads? I am curious…