Nofollows are also used internally for PageRank sculpting and to indicate that a link is sponsored/paid. Some people nofollow them in order to prevent them from receiving any link juice. A link without a rel=nofollow is a followed link.
PageRank Sculpting and Link Juice That can still work as you'll see at times, but quick wins with links aren't as plentiful as they were pre-nofollow. In 2005, the nofollow link attribute came along and ruined all our fun.
When nofollow was introduced, some SEO enthusiasts wanted to use it for so called “PageRank sculpting” (the intentional steering of link value through a website). PageRank Distribution and nofollow A would indicate that you save PageRank by using...
Does anyone remember nofollow and PageRank sculpting? After announcing that it had the potential to help with SEO, Matt Cutts reversed his advice and now recommends a site almost never use nofollow on their links.
PageRank sculpting with the nofollow attribute used to be all the rage until Matt Cutts shut the door on it almost two years ago. Instead of an artificial construct, such as the nofollow attribute, you instead direct the sculpting through the way...
At SMX Advanced 2009, Matt Cutts made statements about how this had been changed, and which he then clarified in his June 15 "PageRank Sculpting" post. This touched off an era where many SEOs recommended PageRank sculpting, and lots of sites did it.
PageRank Sculpting: Welcome Back to High School Hell SEW EXPERTS: PROMOTION there is only what is right for your business at that time. Page Rank Sculpting? Jun 25, 2009 Hey guys Google has recently made changes in its algorithm which is 'No...
This has made PageRank sculpting more of an issue. You did this using the nofollow tag on links. We wouldn't have this problem if Google had never decided to enact this nofollow-link-juice-withholding policy in the first place.
This practice, known as PageRank sculpting, is applied by adding a nofollow attribute to links to pages that a site owner feels are less important to rank for, such as "about us" pages or privacy policies.
Google Further Clarifies Nofollow and PageRank Sculpting Posted by Kevin Newcomb Jun 16, 2009 Earlier this month, Matt Cutts shared with search marketers that Google had begun treating nofollow differently, especially in regards to "PageRank...
Earlier this month, Matt Cutts shared with search marketers that Google had begun treating nofollow differently, especially in regards to "PageRank sculpting," the advanced SEO tactic that aims to control where PageRank flows around a site.
By 2007, advanced SEOs realized that the nofollow attribute could be used internally in PageRank sculpting. Using that process, the nofollow attribute is added to links to certain pages to prevent PageRank from flowing to those pages.
An advanced form of the discipline is known as "PageRank siloing," or "PageRank sculpting. You can add a nofollow tag to the end of the link in your HTML code. Nofollow Tag A link using the nofollow tag looks like this: a no-followed link
There have been much discussion recently about using the “nofollow” attribute to sculpt a website's PageRank for ranking purposes, a practice commonly known as PR Sculpting. PR Sculpting has been the focus of much controversy in the SEO space; most...
PageRank "sculpting" and siloing are two methods that use the "nofollow" attribute to control which links are counted in search engine ranking algorithms. Search Engine Watch Experts Columns SageLewis
Reading that post triggered my memory about something called PageRank sculpting. Enter Siloing and PageRank Sculpting Joost's article explains PageRank sculpting in more detail if you find this topic fascinating.
In today's Link Building column, "Giving Links Away," Sage Lewis explains the concepts of PageRank "sculpting" and siloing: two methods that use the "nofollow" attribute to control which links are counted in search engine ranking algorithms.
