no it was an interview with him published. and lets be honest he never said it did work, or how so anyway, but now saying that it doesnt any more is kind of an admission that it did.. of course, but that's designing a website right from the start, not trying to make it work better by using nofollow.
Search Engine Land's post on it http://searchengineland.com/google-...n-paid-link-blocking-pagerank-sculpting-20408
Very interesting news... Will get rid of most of the (nofollowed) inner links in my site, while it will still pass juice Thank you so much for sharing, REP on the way
Yeah, it might be working for now.. but how about the next update ?? Maybe my main category pages starts to drop in the SERP's because of other inner links within my homepage to downloadable materials like PDF files or so !! What do you really think ?
Page Rank itself has absolutely no merit or weight any longer either. There are a larger number of factors to focus on. PR ranks at the very bottom of that list.
by the way, regarding PR - here is something interesting - matt cutts says google crawls to sites in order of pagerank - higher pr = crawls first (or more...).
Odd, I've got a site that has NO PR, (since google hates certain sites) which gets indexed as much if not more than a PR 6 site I have...
I believe them in this part for sure they'd most likely be looking to devalue the gains gotten by sculpting and put you back to where you were before. this is what they do with paid links, spammy links etc, just discount. they cant advise the web world its fine to do this, then slam them all a year later for doing so.
I think Google has stirred up a hornets nest with all this pagerank sculpting and nofollow Tags. For a search engine that relies on backlinks as a major factor on determining "authority", how could they accurately factor that in with all of the nofollow tags out there? I practice pagerank sculpting, and it's seems to work. However, I've always been kind of paranoid about using them. I believe that throws up a red flag to tell Google "Watch this guy carefully, he's savvy" Does that make sense?
He most certainly did not say that. I use internal nofollow sculpting and if it is a big site with a lot of pages I usually see about a 20% increase in traffic - which is why I do it, not for PageRank purposes, but for the extra visitors.
Page Rank is only one factor, other ares domain age, backlinks to this domains (edu, mil, org, etc etc)...
Pagerank will always be their even if they take away the little green bar to measure it. Its like saying electricity wont exist if you take away the volt meter.
Often times for content on one of my sites I would write several months worth of content at one time and then slowly release it over that several months. Do you think perhaps Google has all of this pre-planned and makes specific changes live when the market hits a certain threshold? Sort of like software companies that will have 3 upgrades created for a new software already developed but the upgrades come out yearly after the release of the original.