Sculpting just ain't like it used to be.
Have you ever heard about the idea of page rank sculpting and the use of ‘no follow’ to funnel page rank into those pages that you want to have ranked? It’s pretty high level SEO stuff, so if you’re not too sure what the hell I’m talking about Google “page rank sculpting” to find out a little more.
The basic idea is that you can increase your rankings in Google by channeling the page rank of your pages to the pages you want ranked. This used be done with the use of the ‘no follow’ tag. That said, things have changed, and Google has come out and said that the way ‘no follow’ used to work has changed. In short, using ‘no follow’ to channel that page rank juice is no longer as effective as it once was.
These days I don’t really worry about ‘no follow’. The way I do page rank sculpting is to simply Read More>>
No Follow Attribute And PageRank – A Few Home Truths
If someone asked you right now to explain to them in detail exactly what the no follow attribute means and how it impacts your PageRank, could you give an answer to that question? Most people think they understand this, however more often than not, people simply just don’t get it. The most common answer relates to a form of “PageRank Sculpting”, involving hoarding all of that lovely link value on your site using a no follow attribute and diverting link juice to your own pages that need love. Well, I hate to break it to you, but it is not that simple.
Let me start by the definition of the no follow attribute, from the stand point of Google. The no follow attribute is a way of simply saying Read More>>
No Follow Tags And Their Impact On SEO
Proper use of the No Follow tag in your links can be more beneficial to you more than you may think. Ensuring that your website is indexed and crawled by the search engines properly should be a huge focus to anyone who wants to attract the right traffic to their site, however, there are still a large amount of webmasters who are still highly uncertain of what exactly the “no follow’ attribute does, and how it will benefit them. Let me clear some air for you… Read More>>
