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Does Page Rank Sculpting Still Help You Get Higher Google Rankings?
Originally Published: July 21, 2009
Google has changed the way it processes the nofollow attribute. These changes have an impact on how you can use the nofollow attribute for PageRank sculpting on your website.
What is PageRank sculpting?
PageRank sculpting is the attempt to control the link power of one website page to another page of the same website. For example, when Google finds a website with three links then the link power is evenly passed to all three links:
Some webmasters thought that if a web page has a high PageRank of 8 then it shouldn't pass that PageRank power to "Terms of Service" or "Privacy Policy" pages.
For that reason, some webmasters started to use the rel=nofollow attribute for these links:
<a href="example.htm" rel="nofollow">Example</a>
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Editor's Note:
See also:
Does Google Count rel=nofollow links?
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Links that are marked with the nofollow attribute shouldn't be followed by Google. That meant that the other links on the web page benefited more from the high PageRank of the page. It worked like that:
In this example, link 1 passes no link power while link 2 and 3 each pass half of the available link power to the target page. The result is that the linked pages have a higher chance of getting listed in the search results.
What has changed?
Google's Matt Cutts recently made a statement about the way Google now treats nofollow links:
Link 1 still doesn't pass any link power but the link power of that link is simply discarded.
What does this mean for your website?
The change means that PageRank sculpting with the nofollow attribute does not work anymore and that it now makes sense to remove any nofollow links that go to your own website. You're just wasting link power by using the attribute for links to your own pages.
Do not waste your time by trying to manipulate the links on your web pages. Better concentrate on a good user experience with good web page content and an easy to understand website navigation. Websites with a good user experience usually get more links from other websites.
If you want to find out if your website has all the elements that are necessary to get a listing on Google's first result page for your keyword,
check your website with IBP's Top 10 Optimizer.
The optimizer will tell you whether the links and the content of your web pages are good enough for Google and it will also tell you what exactly you have to change so that web surfers will find your site on Google's first result page.
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