Comments on: Google Deprecates PageRank Sculpting, Paid JavaScript Links

By: I Guess We Are A Dofollow Blog Again (Sort Of…) | Hobo

I Guess We Are A Dofollow Blog Again (Sort Of…) | Hobo — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:45:37 +0000

[...] http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/06/google-deprecates-pagerank-scu lpting-paid-javascript-links…. Jordan McCollum with a good simple roundup [...]

By: The Busy SEOs Guide to Matt Cutts’ Explanation of PageRank Sculpting - Web 2.0 Promotions

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:02:04 +0000

[...] Unless you’re an SEO, you’re probably blissfully unaware of the bombshell Google’s Matt Cutts dropped at SMX Advanced recently. Jordan did a great job of summarizing the issue here. [...]

By: codesucker

codesucker — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:56:18 +0000

GoogleBomb ’09 shrinks the internet.

For the well-optimized its no more blogrolls, news feeds, aggregations of any kind. If that kind of stuff can’t be tagged nofollow to redistribute juice, Googleminded pages might as well not even have them. SEOs will now look at every single link as a Penalty – tags, comments, stop me if I’m wrong – I’m not. This is a sad day for the internet

This sudden flip-flop of the ‘rules’ changes everything.

codesucker’s last blog post..Bing SEO Part 2: Some answers. What is DEO?

By: Google’s Changes to Nofollow Management Undermine PageRank Sculpting | ineedhits

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:38:37 +0000

[...] Google’s revealed that the advanced SEO practice of PageRank sculpting will be far less effective as it’s changed the rules on nofollow. [...]

By: aansa

aansa — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:45:14 +0000

When google is going to stop changing rules? aansa's last blog post..Futuric Kitchens

By: Brennan

Brennan — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:25:39 +0000

I don’t think this will really have a huge affect on many websites because most of the time a website is just no-following things such as contact pages, privacy policy, etc where you do not want pagerank going to those either way.

By: simon

simon — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:49:51 +0000

just thinking out loud here… All the talk about brands being in favour some weeks back i recon was just a side effect of google following javascript (affiliate) links.

By: Jaan Kanellis

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:40:49 +0000

Glad to see this put rest finally. I have said that this was a waste of time for years. it makes sense to structure your navigation in manner that is conducive for crawling and passing juice, but to say you could "sculpt" and manipulate PR was retarded at best. Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..MSN New Search Engine Bing.com Released

By: Jordan McCollum

Jordan McCollum — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:15:08 +0000

Personally, I was never a big fan of PageRank sculpting, but I also don’t think most people who know enough about SEO to even type rel=”nofollow” were relying on PR sculpting instead of focusing on fundamental SEO principles.

I’m also not sure that having a technique one used (that some people claim was working) become devalued is setting one’s self up for a lot of heartache. I mean, my heart isn’t breaking over directory links or meta keywords, but I suppose I’ve had plenty of time to recover . It’s just the nature of the beast—try new things and if something works for a while, great. If it doesn’t work or stops working, move on. At least Google is finally putting an end to the blog posts about it (we can only hope).

By: Michael Martinez

Michael Martinez — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:59:13 +0000

There was never anything “advanced” about PageRank Sculpting. It was always a waste of time because no one outside of Google has ever had the ability to track and measure PageRank.

There may very well be something behind Google’s change on “rel=’nofollow’” that they haven’t disclosed (disclosure always seems to work only one way for Google), but this just goes to show that people who buy in to cheap SEO tricks like PageRank Sculpting instead of focusing on fundamental search engine optimization principles set themselves up for a lot of heartache.

I’ve said on occasion that PageRank Sculpting was really just PageRank hoarding in disguise — and now the emperor’s new clothes have been shown for what they really are: nothing.