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It really means that all the people who THOUGHT they were successfully sculpting PageRank were NOT.

Rand’s article is offering absolutely terrible advice. No one should be trying to save the concept of PageRank sculpting these days. The SEO community needs to stop passing bad advice like PageRank sculpting around.

You cannot measure it; therefore you cannot sculpt it.

“So what happens when you have a page with “ten PageRank points” and ten outgoing links, and five of those links are nofollowed? Let’s leave aside the decay factor to focus on the core part of the question. Originally, the five links without nofollow would have flowed two points of PageRank each (in essence, the nofollowed links didn’t count toward the denominator when dividing PageRank by the outdegree of the page). More than a year ago, Google changed how the PageRank flows so that the five links without nofollow would flow one point of PageRank each.”

With that statement about it makes it sound like links with nofollow do flow (or leak, but not pass?) PageRank, LOL

Can we make this any more confusing than it has to be?

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Barry Welford’s last blog post..Making Complex Purchases