Apparently Google has changed the way the PR flows. PR sculpting has been less effective as a result. This movie does a great job, but it's 20 minutes long so get some refreshments: http://vimeo.com/5238869 Theoretically you could use an iFrame to make a new page for links, but I think that is taking it too far. Google claims the change happened a year ago, but I doubt that since no one is seeing PR drops until now. I'm still using nofollow tags, because Google isn't the only one that used them. In the future things may change as well. Bye, PR sculpting
Do I understand the issue correctly? Google basically set the nofollow effect on PageRank back to 2005 (before the attribute was accepted)? Any signs that other methods are being affected?
I do not have 20 minutes to watch it. Does anyone know an official URL with text about this? I would like to read it from a Google official source.
xc06 - Unfortunately you are correct. At the same time, the more links on a given page the less effect that is given to each link. A page that is spammed into oblivion will not give spammers much return on their time spent. I've always kept links out of my comments, even for the name field. Just good practice I've felt.
Just read Matts post, so nofollow does not pass pagerank. I feel like I have just taken a maths lesson too much learning detract from creating content.
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/#comment-347549 Just found this. Matt's reply to Erick claims that an external link with NoFollow will still work, it's just internal links that won't. I suppose all Google is targeting is internal PR sculpting.
Not realy,nofolow still work,but problem is you cant use it anymore to give link juice to links which you want to give.For example let say you have 10 links on 5 sites.You put 5 links on nofollow,so the other 5 links get better value.But now with this new rules this doesnt work anymore.Even nofollow links wont get any juice,links without it wont get same value as they before,they will get value like there is no nofollow tag applied anywhere.This could be very problematic for bloggers,who uses massively nofollow tag on ads and similar links. Only solution to resolve this is to use either frame or flash/java generated links.
I think that nofollow is and will be of very much use. The basic use of this tag is to not give PR juice to a site: or to add this tag to links that you do not trust: or to use this tag to fight spam. PR sculpting is a different thing.
simple fact: 1: nofollow does work and not pass PR juice 2: every link gets same PR juice, but only follow link pass it to linked site. it means: you get a very little PR juice on a mass nofollow link page, even when your link is the only follow one. I think, it's NOT common sense.
Zac, nofollow make sense not for PR/notPR only. PR sculpting died far ago for everybody who first of all worry SERP about.