What are your thoughts on this? please read the article before replying... http://www.webpronews.com/expertarti...sculpting-work
Your link doesn't work and Matt Cutts has recently said PageRank sculpting doesn't either http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/
Page rank sculpting no longer works according to Matt Cutts. He said recently that about a year ago Google secretly changed how they handle NOFOLLOW in regards to the flow of PR. Matt's blog post explains the concept of PR very well in laymen's terms that almost anyone should be able to understnad and ALSO how rel="nofollow" used to work and currently works:
It's ironic and extremely annoying for a lot of people since Matt Cutts earlier statement was that PR sculpting does work.
I think it works as far as just making a good link structure for your site (ie use Wordpress + SEO Plugin, or setup something similar with good internal linking and good page titles). Otherwise, I wouldn't worry much about it as far as 'nofollow' goes now that they count any link as an outlink no matter if it is nofollow or not.
The simplest answer is yes. It definitely does work - the devil is in the details of how well and to what extent it brings value. However, anyone can set up a simple test to watch PageRank sculpting with nofollow in action. Just follow these simple steps: 1. Create a new page in a test environment (either on a new domain or in a new section of an existing site). 2. Point enough links to this new page to get it indexed in the three major search engines. There are a variety of methods to do this, but for testing sites, I like Jane's clever tactic of leveraging the social media link sources to get the engines visiting regularly and keeping it in the index. 3. Create 10-20 links on the new page pointing to completely unique pages, targeting make-believe terms and phrases for which no search engine shows results (like yootermimitank). 4. Wait for the engines to visit and see these new pages. Chances are, they won't index all of those new, nonsense word pages (particularly if you've pointed very small amounts of link juice to your test page). If they do index all of them, just keep adding links to new nonsense pages until they stop getting all of them. 5. Start nofollowing those links a few at a time, until all the pages that remain with links pointing to them are in the engines' index. Remarkably, the engines all behave fairly similarly, and seem to have fairly similar thresholds for keeping a page in the index (though Yahoo! appeared to be the most lenient when I performed this test several months back). 6. You've now used nofollow to "sculpt" where PageRank/link juice is pointing and through it, influenced which pages the engines keep in their index vs. discard. You're also directly observing the phenomenon of how a page splits its PageRank through the links it points to - fewer links means more juice per page, leading to a higher probability of being crawled and indexed.
Agreed. Don't worry about using nofollow, except maybe for pages that you wouldn't need to to be indexed (login pages etc) ... just focus on a good internal linking structure and let the PageRank flow.
i think you might need to catch up with the news somewhat.. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...&cd=1&q=matt+cutts+pagerank+sculpting&spell=1
let say this is quite effective but sooner or later google will eliminate this technique so its useless to focus your time on this, so its better to use your time on long time natural techniques which supported by google.
Hmm, i didnt know all of this, didnt even have a clue what was sculpting. Thanks for sharing this useful information, it clears the air a bit.