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Page Rank Sculpting

by Terrence Taitt
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Hi, I have a number of pages in my website's footer that I would like to place the "rel nofollow" tag attribute on, but I am not sure which ones I should add the nofollow tag on for Page Rank sculpting purposes. Here are the list of pages I am considering placing the link attribute on:

Contact Us

About Us

Privacy Policy

Terms of Use

Sitemap

Resources


Please share your thoughts on which pages I should and should not place the "rel nofollow" link attribute on for Page Rank sculpting purposes... :confused:
#page #rank #sculpting
  • Profile picture of the author racheljohn
    Stop the spiders index duplicate content effectively address different piles such as a database query based on the specific structure of return - but the basic content of these sites offer the same number of any other URL, the query is slightly different structure.
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    • Profile picture of the author bookbuyer
      Originally Posted by racheljohn View Post

      Stop the spiders index duplicate content effectively address different piles such as a database query based on the specific structure of return - but the basic content of these sites offer the same number of any other URL, the query is slightly different structure.
      Um, could you repeat that please? I like the OP's question, would like to see answer?
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      • Profile picture of the author terrapurus
        Originally Posted by bookbuyer View Post

        Um, could you repeat that please? I like the OP's question, would like to see answer?
        Don't speak spamese? Let me translate - "I am a spammer and I have nothing to contribute to this conversation. I am just here to fill this thread with useless junk to get my footer links splattered across here before I get my ass banned."
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        • Profile picture of the author esdavis
          Originally Posted by terrapurus View Post

          Don't speak spamese? Let me translate - "I am a spammer and I have nothing to contribute to this conversation. I am just here to fill this thread with useless junk to get my footer links splattered across here before I get my ass banned."
          LOL!

          Regarding nofollow, I've been following Leslie Rohde for a while now, and when he talks about PR sculpting, he firmly believes that the nofollow will be ignored for this kind of thing.

          If you don't want the links followed, there are other methods for hiding the links from the search engines (like Javascript) but still making them workable for humans.
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  • Profile picture of the author daguerfi
    I'll use the "rel nofollow" tag attribute to those page if they don't have any relativity to the main keyword:

    Contact Us, About Us, Privacy Policy,Terms of Use.
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  • Profile picture of the author dburk
    Originally Posted by Terrence Taitt View Post

    Please share your thoughts on which pages I should and should not place the "rel nofollow" link attribute on for Page Rank sculpting purposes... :confused:
    Hi Terrence,

    You shouldn't place the nofollow link attribute on any of those pages for the purpose of PageRank sculpting.

    Google changed their algorithm more than 3 years ago effectively disabling the ability to channel PR through the use of the nofollow attribute. All that you would be doing is bleeding off your link juice with no benefit. It is better to let the juice flow through your site. You can still sculpt PR just not through the use of the nofollow attribute.

    Matt Cutts posted about this very topic back in 2009: PageRank sculpting
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  • Profile picture of the author RevSEO
    Don't worry about it! As mentioned in this thread Google changed the way they handle PR sculpting on domains. You can get tricky as mentioned by esdavis, but in reality for 99% of us don't need to worry about "losing" PR to these pages. Google typically discounts them anyways.
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  • Profile picture of the author esdavis
    Yeah, serious page rank sculpting isn't much of a help until you've indexed a lot of pages and have some serious PR to push around.

    I wouldn't say that linking to the "other" pages is a good idea, if you're using a nav link in each and every page on your site to those pages. They don't exactly need the boost.

    One thing I do for my legal pages, to limit it without going nuts or getting "tricky" as RevSEO says, it to link to ONE legal page in the footer, but then have that one specific page on the site link out to the other legal pages. And that is the ONLY page that links to them. This contains things a little bit so if I do serious PR sculpting later, I don't have to play with those pages.

    I personally wouldn't say that Google ignores those pages, IMHO. They're just a little too anal retentive for that and when they crawl your site, a page is a page to index. I'd rather direct them to better pages to play with.
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