Comments on: Link Sculpting http://jeremyturner.net/link-sculpting/ JOIN ME IN MY QUEST FOR (RELEVANT) GREATNESS Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:59:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Jeremy Turnerhttp://jeremyturner.net/link-sculpting/comment-page-1/#comment-274 Jeremy Turner Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:44:25 +0000 http://jeremyturner.net/?p=26#comment-274 Thanks for the clarification Michael. Yeah, going back and re-reading this post is rather cringe worthy. Re-reading my post now is a bit cringe-inducing for me. I definitely should have spent some more time on this one, or at least explained who Matt Cutts even is. Just to clarify, nobody should ever take my advice on any of this stuff. I'm currently trying to figure out what I did wrong to have jeremyturner.net completely wiped out from the Google index, so please take any "advice" with extreme caution. I still think using "nofollow" is an interesting concept though, the example being an e-commerce site with multiple links to the same product throughout their site who wants to control what link shows up in Google search results. Making sure a single link garners all of the relevancy seems like a proper strategy. Is there a better way of achieving this goal? Thanks for the clarification Michael. Yeah, going back and re-reading this post is rather cringe worthy. Re-reading my post now is a bit cringe-inducing for me. I definitely should have spent some more time on this one, or at least explained who Matt Cutts even is. Just to clarify, nobody should ever take my advice on any of this stuff. I’m currently trying to figure out what I did wrong to have jeremyturner.net completely wiped out from the Google index, so please take any “advice” with extreme caution. I still think using “nofollow” is an interesting concept though, the example being an e-commerce site with multiple links to the same product throughout their site who wants to control what link shows up in Google search results. Making sure a single link garners all of the relevancy seems like a proper strategy. Is there a better way of achieving this goal?

]]> By: Michael Martinezhttp://jeremyturner.net/link-sculpting/comment-page-1/#comment-273 Michael Martinez Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:23:09 +0000 http://jeremyturner.net/?p=26#comment-273 Matt Cutts does NOT endorse the practice. Rand put those words into his mouth and he posted a comment on that post where he corrected Rand's misattribution:"I think saying people 'should be' using nofollow is a bit strong. More like people can use it for internal links if they're power-user-y enough to want to sculpt PageRank flow within their site at the link level. But I'd say that most regular webmasters don't need to worry about link-level PageRank flow within their site. I think saying 'power users and webmasters should be employing on their sites' overstates it a little. It's available if you want to get into that much fine-grained control." Source: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/questions-answers-with-googles-spam-guru#jtc33536In fact, several Googlers came out and advised people NOT to attempt to sculpt links after that post.It's a bad idea and a complete waste of time because no one outside of Google has any way of measuring PageRank or seeing where it flows through a Web site. Matt Cutts does NOT endorse the practice. Rand put those words into his mouth and he posted a comment on that post where he corrected Rand’s misattribution:

“I think saying people ‘should be’ using nofollow is a bit strong. More like people can use it for internal links if they’re power-user-y enough to want to sculpt PageRank flow within their site at the link level. But I’d say that most regular webmasters don’t need to worry about link-level PageRank flow within their site. I think saying ‘power users and webmasters should be employing on their sites’ overstates it a little. It’s available if you want to get into that much fine-grained control.”
Source: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/questions-answers-with-googles-spam-guru#jtc33536

In fact, several Googlers came out and advised people NOT to attempt to sculpt links after that post.

It’s a bad idea and a complete waste of time because no one outside of Google has any way of measuring PageRank or seeing where it flows through a Web site.

]]> By: Leohttp://jeremyturner.net/link-sculpting/comment-page-1/#comment-242 Leo Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:57:40 +0000 http://jeremyturner.net/?p=26#comment-242 That may be the case, but sites that use this practice actually create black hole sites...where nothing really leaves and they basically hoard all of their link juice. I imagine eventually the google team will figure out that "nofollow" is really just a bad idea. It does very little good for the community on the whole. That may be the case, but sites that use this practice actually create black hole sites…where nothing really leaves and they basically hoard all of their link juice. I imagine eventually the google team will figure out that “nofollow” is really just a bad idea. It does very little good for the community on the whole.

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