Comments on: Forget No-Follow: Try This PageRank Sculpting SEO Alternative

By: Google SEO Tips: Matt Cutts & Eric Enge Interview

Google SEO Tips: Matt Cutts & Eric Enge Interview — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:09:25 +0000

[...] also addressed one way of managing link equity by using a tiered approach instead of PageRank Sculpting with IFrames or Javascript, which he stated “PageRank Sculpting is taking the PageRank that you [...]

By: Shahab khan

Shahab khan — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:10:14 +0000

Hi there!
Its a great article, thanks for sharing.
But i am still a bit confused.
Actually i am trying to nofollow a particular link (say example.com) but not with a nofollow link, i am thinking of to do this by robots.txt.

So is this possible to nofollow any particular link by robots.txt??

By: Gangster51

Gangster51 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:35:48 +0000

I know how to solve the issue though. ,

By: Jeffrey Smith

Jeffrey Smith — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:37:04 +0000

@Eustache:

Although my first inclination is to say “yes and or some degree”, however based on the reality that each circumstance is truly unique.

What that degree is or where each is applicable depends on the ultimate objective.

In my honest opinion, I think this has to go back to the drawing board and time to test, test and retest before making statements.

Great volley, but there is always more than one way to skin a cat.

By: eustache

eustache — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:12:28 +0000

Trying to sum up as an ignoramus, is it the overall view that the following all still work:

a) iframes
b) flash (dynamic 1.x delivery to ensure google doesnt see it)
c) java
d) and NOFOLLOW

By: Jeffrey Smith

Jeffrey Smith — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:26:50 +0000

User-agent: *

Disallow: /folder/

was only implied for the CGI-Bin folder, IFrames are not tangible solutions.

You can easily just use on page anchors as well such as http://www.website.com/page.html#nested-link

Let’s not make things too complex.

By: IQ

IQ — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:14:57 +0000

User-agent: *\
Disallow: /folder/

Real smart this is no different then the folder not existing the spiders will now not index or rank folder this is a NO genius approach..

Stupid stupid stupid…..

IFRAME Now your Thinking…

By: Duplicate Content and SEO by SEO Design Solutions™

Duplicate Content and SEO by SEO Design Solutions™ — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:12:17 +0000

[...] navigation behind an IFRAME, use of nofollow, or redirecting the navigation links from behind a /CGI-BIN/ script where all of the redirects happen in a page not followed by robots or blocked by [...]

By: eddie

eddie — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:02:26 +0000

i think you are missing a crucial part of the june 15th announcement. it doesnt matter if the link flows thru a redirect scrip residing in a dir blocked using robots.txt. if google sees the link, you are dividing up the link juice you pass to the other (dofollow) links on that page.

google these days also sees links in simple JS. so aside from fancier JS, you can only sculpt if put the links you dont want google to see in

a) iframes

b) flash (dynamic 1.x delivery to ensure google doesnt see it)

c) java

By: DangerMouse

DangerMouse — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:50:30 +0000

Further to our discussion above Jeffrey – this came out today.

http://www.youtube.com/GoogleWebmasterHelp#play/all/uploads-all/0/TkopkUPF-M8

I’d like to think we inspired it, but somehow I’m not so sure