I read this tip on using the nofollow attribute in links to boost page rank: 1. Create a sitemap and link to it on your home page. A Sitemap is simply a webpage that lists all the pages on your site. 2. Change ALL your home page links to NO FOLLOW links except for the one that says "Sitemap." Leave the Sitemap link on your home page as a regular link, using the link html outlined above. 3. On your Sitemap page, link to all interior pages on your website with a regular link. Your Sitemap shouldn't link to any other pages except the interior pages on your website. 4. Make all links on the interior pages NO FOLLOW links except one. One regular link on each of your sites interior pages should link back to your home page. That's it! Now let's take a look at what we're directing the Googlebot to do. It is going to visit your home page. It will see only one link to follow and that will take it to your Sitemap. From there Google will see 30 regular webpage links to follow. It will follow those 30 links to your interior pages. Each one of those pages will have only one to follow link on them. This takes Google back to your home page. See what we've done? We've just created 30 votes for your home page. So here's my question: wouldn't it have the same effect to have a menu on the homepage that links to all the other pages (with follow on for each menu link), and then to have that same menu on the other pages have nofollow on all the links except the one back to the home page? Am I missing something here? I like the principle but find html sitemap pages ugly (as opposed to the invisible xml sitemap), and so I'd like to accomplish the above aesthetically if possible.
Create good content and then do it manually. Or you can do it automatically like this: http://statimo.com/example.com Change example.com with your domain name...
lol, I should say youre missing something here- if you have 30 links from your homepage, and you nofollow 29 of them you have just evaporated off 29/30ths of your pagerank Matt Cutts says pagerank sculpting doesnt work any more good effort
using nofollow? yes. unless youre saying Matt Cutts is lying to us? did you read his post? watch the video? http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/
Using the rel=nofollow tag simply tells the Google not to count the link as a vote, the link still subtracts from your page rank, and there is no quick, cheap, way to jump PR. White hat SEO, which usually takes time is the way to go. This is just another of the many myths that put webmasters in trouble. Do yourself and website a favor by not doing that.
You are aware who Matt Cutts is, right? I'm asking because I know I didn't the first time I heard the name. He works for Google specializing in search engine optimization. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_cutts
sorry but this is pretty unnatural. I wouldn´t like to start a math prowl here but ... why rather not to link from your home page directly to your 30 pages (leaving out the sitemap, or just link to it as a standard page), then - from those 30 pages - link to the other 30 pages plus the homepage? I don´t get your model unless you´re building a site to sell PR backlinks to newbie link buyers...
Okay, well that's news to me, and according to the post linked to it was "massive news and is effectively the end of Pagerank Sculpting as we know it". So it apparently worked that way until Google changed their search algorithm making that practice moot. Would I still want to use nofollow on external links (as oppsed to the internal link PR strategy above)? Would that still help my page "vote juice"? Currently i have nofollow on pages like php contact forms that I don't really want indexed. Is that okay? Just trying to learn.
This way it may happen that your sitemap will be considered like 2nd most important site (after the home page) of your web. Then the sitemap may be found in SERPs instead of the page with the content which the people are looking for.
I don´t think so unless your sitemap is well seoptimezed. don´t get me wrong, you´re right about what the SEs will think about the sitemap. it will (IMO) really be considered a 2nd (or so) most important page of your site but it won´t get any visits as it would be the most general page of yopur site...
While I'm at it, could someone take a look at my metatags? Is there anything wrong I am doing here: <meta name="distribution" content="global" /> <meta name="robots" content="follow, all" /> <meta name="language" content="en, sv" /> <meta name="robots" content="index,follow,noodp,noydir" /> (I ofcourse have title and keyword tags too, but have not included them)
IMO, a serious business would try to have as much of its site pages indexed as possible. no nofollows, dofollows or whatever... why the heck not get indexed the "contact" page? it shows a lot of information about you to the prospective customer. it localizes you!!! what if someone would search for "best plumbers" (your company´s name, BestPlumbers, LLc.) in "spring creek nevada"? would you rather like your competitors from texas or nebraska be in front of you, just because they did not nofollowed their "contacts" and google decided that the BestPlumber from texas is more relevant result than BestPlumber from nowhere (as you had hidden your contact info)? I guass, you wouldn´t!!! sorry if this sounds offensive, I really don´t want to touch you anyhow. but... stop reading and start thinking (and doing). PR sculpting is a nice theory for theory. nothing else. PR is just one of many factors that the SEs consider when ordering results.
Definitely not. Forget the no/dofollow. Just link out naturally. Based upon the nature of your site this either makes your site an "authority hub" (good) or a "link farm" (bad), depends on your approach to out likning.
well yes, back in June it was, but the seo world has gotten used to the idea now. again yes, but they say they did it more than a year ago and nobody noticed. no not really. linking out (as long as the sites you link to are good- trusted and on-topic) may actually actually be rewarded in the algo for all we know, they've implied it at least at times. if its a good site, link live. you'd be better removing nofollow on the links and using the meta noindex,follow tab on pages you dont want indexed.
Yes I understand that, that why I have the company address and phone on the footer of every page on the site, which accomplishes the same "localization", but for every page. The reason behind using nofollow on contact forms is - as it was explained to me - that one wants to hide the email address from spambots. I'm simplifying this a bit, but that was the gist. As I understand it tho (and keep in mind I am no expert, just someone coming from the outside trying to learn by asking lots of questions) it would be better to accomplish this through a robot.txt file instead.
Thanks to all for the education. For those of us on the outside it is a lot to take in! I'm glad I asked about all of this here before implementing this outdated info.
Hello, in my opinion, spambots do not obey robots.txt rules that´s how they´re coded. BTW I´ve got infractions for this post from the moderator. That´s why I love digitalpoint...