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Page rank sculpting limited to the page to optimize

by fabal79
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Hi guys,

I have a doubt about pagerank sculpting.

As far as I read this technique does not work anymore as it used to be some years ago.
Therefore, if I have a bunch of external links in a blogpost, putting rel="nofollow" won't pass them link juice but, on the other hand, it will not increase the link juice for dofollow links I have on the same post.

I assume that extra link juice (the one not passed to nofollow links) will just stay on the page.

Is this assumption correct? Will this extra link juice improve the ranking of the page it stays on?

If it is, my idea would be as it follows: sculpting only the page I am optimizing for a specific keyword.
Let's say I want to boost page A for keyword X.
I could place internal links on other pages (with anchor text X), all of them directing visitors to page A to improve page A visibility.
Then I could tag with rel="nofollow" all the external links on page A, so as to retain link juice on that page and improve even further the ranking.

Does it make sense?

Stupid idea or worth a try?
#limited #optimize #page #rank #sculpting
  • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
    Originally Posted by fabal79 View Post

    Therefore, if I have a bunch of external links in a blogpost, putting rel="nofollow" won't pass them link juice but, on the other hand, it will not increase the link juice for dofollow links I have on the same post.
    The nofollow attribute only prevents Google from passing link juice. Those links are still counted in your link total, so using nofollow only dilutes your good links. Some juice just vanishes.

    Indeed, sculpting doesn't work the way it used to. You may have to drop the nofollow links, or load them with iframes.
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    • Profile picture of the author fabal79
      Originally Posted by nettiapina View Post

      The nofollow attribute only prevents Google from passing link juice. Those links are still counted in your link total, so using nofollow only dilutes your good links. Some juice just vanishes.

      Indeed, sculpting doesn't work the way it used to. You may have to drop the nofollow links, or load them with iframes.
      So, if I well understood, using nofollows will not allow me to make any use of that extra link juice that is not passed to other links.

      I'm curious about what you said: Some juice just vanishes.

      Are you saying that the extra link juice does not stay on the page but, since it doesn't go to nofollow links, it just goes lost in the www?
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      • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
        Originally Posted by fabal79 View Post

        Are you saying that the extra link juice does not stay on the page but, since it doesn't go to nofollow links, it just goes lost in the www?
        That's my understanding on this topic. Obviously Google hasn't been entirely open about this, but this info comes from them as far as I know.

        Lets say that you've got 10 links on a page, and five of them are nofollow. Each link gets 1/10 of the link juice, but those five nofollow links do not pass it on. You've pretty much lost the link juice from half of the links.

        Yukon is right. I've not much of a silo guy myself, but the idea makes sense to me.
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    Sculpting still works though nofollow is/was never the end all solution. Silos are the easiest way to sculpt links/authority.
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    Well, there is a ratio to use nofollow and dofollow sites that is 20% and 80%.
    However it is very essential to use both dofollow and nofollow sites, even no-follow sites are also rank in SERP.
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    • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
      Originally Posted by SureshHiten View Post

      Well, there is a ratio to use nofollow and dofollow sites that is 20% and 80%.
      However it is very essential to use both dofollow and nofollow sites, even no-follow sites are also rank in SERP.
      You didn't even read the question, did you? These percentages are BS, but they have nothing to do with this topic.
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