Comments on: Page Rank Sculpting Still Doesn’t Work http://www.johnon.com/737/pagerank-sculpting-works.html I think there's an opinion on that subject lying around here somewhere.... Wed, 22 May 2013 16:50:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Jason Capshaw http://www.johnon.com/737/pagerank-sculpting-works.html#comment-130918 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:33:11 +0000 http://www.johnon.com/737/pagerank-sculpting-works.html#comment-130918 Very well said. "This link is not trustworthy" is so obvious and hard to miss, yet many did, including myself. Very well said. “This link is not trustworthy” is so obvious and hard to miss, yet many did, including myself.

]]> by: Ryan Jones http://www.johnon.com/737/pagerank-sculpting-works.html#comment-130916 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:41:17 +0000 http://www.johnon.com/737/pagerank-sculpting-works.html#comment-130916 ". When you have a vested interest in having been right (because you have clients who paid a lot to be told to implement nofollow, and paid a lot to implement nofollow for page rank sculpting), you tend to develop a biased perspective." Truer words were never spoken. That's why I'm always skeptical of "research" by various SEO shops out there. Much of it is done soley to help them sell more SEO. “. When you have a vested interest in having been right (because you have clients who paid a lot to be told to implement nofollow, and paid a lot to implement nofollow for page rank sculpting), you tend to develop a biased perspective.”

Truer words were never spoken. That’s why I’m always skeptical of “research” by various SEO shops out there. Much of it is done soley to help them sell more SEO.

]]> by: Kim at Postal Gold http://www.johnon.com/737/pagerank-sculpting-works.html#comment-130874 Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:05:49 +0000 http://www.johnon.com/737/pagerank-sculpting-works.html#comment-130874 Great point. The company never announces problems in the old versions until the new version is ready to hit shelves, making people have to pay out big bucks for those updates. Great point. The company never announces problems in the old versions until the new version is ready to hit shelves, making people have to pay out big bucks for those updates.

]]> by: mkassets http://www.johnon.com/737/pagerank-sculpting-works.html#comment-130867 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 06:45:37 +0000 http://www.johnon.com/737/pagerank-sculpting-works.html#comment-130867 "Not-so-rational thinkers ... They assumed it worked on an instance of a link .... without necessarily impacting the interpreted character of the destination URL itself " Well, if it does impact the character of the destination URL, the following question can naturally be raised: does an <i>external</i> nofollow link do any harm? Or your post is limited to internal linking only? There are tons of genuine nofollow links in forums, blog comments and social media that the only signal to be associated with them is that someone actually likes the site being linked to. Not to mention the sabotage possibilities that would open ... “Not-so-rational thinkers … They assumed it worked on an instance of a link …. without necessarily impacting the interpreted character of the destination URL itself ”

Well, if it does impact the character of the destination URL, the following question can naturally be raised: does an external nofollow link do any harm? Or your post is limited to internal linking only?

There are tons of genuine nofollow links in forums, blog comments and social media that the only signal to be associated with them is that someone actually likes the site being linked to. Not to mention the sabotage possibilities that would open …

]]> by: Profit Addiction http://www.johnon.com/737/pagerank-sculpting-works.html#comment-130865 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:38:13 +0000 http://www.johnon.com/737/pagerank-sculpting-works.html#comment-130865 When you say 'internal links' that means links to other articles within your website, right? What is your take on nofollow for external links, like in a blogroll? Thanks! Jeremy When you say ‘internal links’ that means links to other articles within your website, right?

What is your take on nofollow for external links, like in a blogroll?

Thanks!

Jeremy

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