Comments on: rel NoFollow, Google, PageRank Sculpting & SEO

By: Deb

Deb — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:56:56 +0000

As a small website owner, I like the sound of this.
Thanks for the good information.

By: Derek Dorian

Derek Dorian — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:56:42 +0000

I am really happy with Google’s decision.
I hope this nofollow and anti nofollow movements will end

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:51:45 +0000

Thanks for the nofollow info, it seems that the Google guys are just going to keep tweaking things in the desire to be presenting the best search results. We just have to keep adapting I guess.

By: Cal

Cal — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:01:56 +0000

This is particularly interesting. I’m going to do the opposite that Bill is doing. I’m going to remove the nofollows I used on internal pages. The page sculpting effect I was going for using a nofollow was to preserve the link juice on the source pages PR. For Bill’s purpose Matt Cutts says “nofollow’ed links are dropped out of our link graph; we don’t even use such links for discovery.” So it may protect interior pages he does not want follorwd. (I would also block it in the robots.txt) But for my purpose, I was just using it to save link juice on my source pages. Now the dofollow and nofollow will both subtract the same link juice from my source pages so it matters not.

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:25:53 +0000

I personally believe nofollow must pass some PR. If not, then it most certainly will in the near future. Nofollow is being abused to the point where its effectiveness has been lost on many sites. Unfortunately I had to add nofollow to my forum, which was being beaten up by link spammers. Still, they continue their onslaught of spam.

Nofollowing internal links is still good. I don’t really do it to preserve PR, but to make every attempt to keep my submit pages out of the SE’s index. This is where spam bots harvest URLs and assemble their list of victims. Good, bad, or otherwise, my nofollowed internal links will remain.