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Re: PageRank Sculpting Isn't Dead But Comments Can Kill Your PageRank

AndyBeard — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:55:56 -0000

It isn't cheating the system, it is about optimizing the information architecture to get as much unique content indexed.
If you have a site with 100,000+ pages of unique content, how you structure your site to get it indexed is important, and sometimes there are benefits in forcing Google to ignore certain links.

Re: PageRank Sculpting Isn't Dead But Comments Can Kill Your PageRank

gauravM — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:28:23 -0000

Thanks for this informative post. I found it really helpful and I am going to exploit its ideas. Thanks for sharing.

Re: PageRank Sculpting Isn't Dead But Comments Can Kill Your PageRank

Will — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:47:09 -0000

I don't get why people don't just focus on higher quality content instead of trying to "beat the system" and cheat their way to higher ranking.

Re: PageRank Sculpting Isn't Dead But Comments Can Kill Your PageRank

AndyBeard — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:53:33 -0000

That is certainly true, though many SEOs believe that Google are masters of doublespeak

Re: PageRank Sculpting Isn't Dead But Comments Can Kill Your PageRank

AndyBeard — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:07:58 -0000

Google claim they can now understand a lot of Javascript, and the links within, can pass juice.

Accessibility of other devices is another matter.

Re: PageRank Sculpting Isn't Dead But Comments Can Kill Your PageRank

Rick @ Business VoIP — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:40:29 -0000

Could someone explain why the use of javascript for PageRank sculpting is not really very good for accessibility? Does it have something to do with form validation?

Re: PageRank Sculpting Isn't Dead But Comments Can Kill Your PageRank

Ben Cornelius Videography — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:56:53 -0000

I wonder how much of this whole discussion is speculative opinion and how much is provable fact. Seems like the search engines are doing a pretty good job of being very secretive about the whole thing. How can we really know the way this all works?

Re: PageRank Sculpting Isn't Dead But Comments Can Kill Your PageRank

AndyBeard — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:07:47 -0000

Let me know a non payday loan site (that Matt Cutts would be happy I linked to) I should change all your links to. I welcome you as part of my community and your contribution, but multiple comments with multiple names, all from the same IP address to multiple micro payday loan sites is just "Extracting the Michael"

Re: PageRank Sculpting Isn't Dead But Comments Can Kill Your PageRank

AndyBeard — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:25:18 -0000

Most blogs following most WordPress SEO guides out there, would face extremely negative effects from this change, if it was the whole story

Re: PageRank Sculpting Isn't Dead But Comments Can Kill Your PageRank

Necrologist — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:02:50 -0000

Maybe if you to have some moderation on commenting, I guess it will not kill you page rank totally huh

Re: PageRank Sculpting Isn't Dead But Comments Can Kill Your PageRank

James @ Money 4 Idiots — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:08:20 -0000

I've read this post twice now and I also read Matt Cutt's original post and I'm struggling to understand exactly what the answer is in regards to whether to add nofollow. I'm thinking of taking the nofollow attribute off my own blog and just ignoring it altogether (it will save some time in mucking around with the coding). Thanks for the mininet download, though. I'm going to go through that now until my brain gives out and see if it shed any light.

Re: PageRank Sculpting Isn't Dead But Comments Can Kill Your PageRank

Neil — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:58:00 -0000

Interesting post. I'm looking forward to the WordPress SEO Masterclass!

Re: PageRank Sculpting Isn't Dead But Comments Can Kill Your PageRank

Michiel Van Kets — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:52:59 -0000

Anyone who is serious and has a real interest that has not read Revenge of the Mininet is missing out on some of the useful "need to knows". Michael and Andy have a huge knowledge base which they draw on and share it which is the best news ! I do agree the ability to work and try to concentrate on your goals for your site itself are often a struggle but with all the information we can gather these days it will happen!

Re: PageRank Sculpting Isn't Dead But Comments Can Kill Your PageRank

ManuelViloria (Manuel Viloria) — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:33:40 -0000

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Re: PageRank Sculpting Isn't Dead But Comments Can Kill Your PageRank

Chris — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:10:52 -0000

Thank you for the great SEO insight. I really appreciate reading about how to use SEO to increase page rank. I just really want to get away from the PR 0.

Thanks!!

Re: PageRank Sculpting Isn't Dead But Comments Can Kill Your PageRank

Sourav — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:16:33 -0000

this will kill the whole blogging community.

Re: PageRank Sculpting Isn't Dead But Comments Can Kill Your PageRank

Sourav — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:16:33 -0000

this will kill the whole blogging community.

Re: PageRank Sculpting Isn't Dead But Comments Can Kill Your PageRank

PAT Testing — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:45:59 -0000

Your right about some of this, but I thing your wong that your site can be harmed by it

Re: PageRank Sculpting Isn't Dead But Comments Can Kill Your PageRank

PAT Testing — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:45:59 -0000

Your right about some of this, but I thing your wong that your site can be harmed by it

Re: PageRank Sculpting Isn't Dead But Comments Can Kill Your PageRank

AndyBeard — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:08:15 -0000

I have provided an example structure, I know it works as at least one site I know using it gets 400,000 or so visits a day, and probably more soon as I adapt based on new information.

We have known for a long time that links are not treated equally.

I have also written today that 95% of bloggers should use Disqus as they don't know what they are doing with PageRank sculpting, and would find it difficult implementing an alternative solution.

Re: PageRank Sculpting Isn't Dead But Comments Can Kill Your PageRank

Geobak — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:20:22 -0000

Why is it THAT bad to become like wikipedia? :)

Wikipedia is dominating the serps for many competitive terms....

What is more from the discussion at Cutts' blog i want to keep his statement that PageRank isn’t spread equally among links and hasn’t been for years and years

So the big question is what technique do you think would be the most appropiate to apply on blogs?

what should be no followed?

Re: PageRank Sculpting Isn't Dead But Comments Can Kill Your PageRank

Geobak — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:20:22 -0000

Why is it THAT bad to become like wikipedia? :)

Wikipedia is dominating the serps for many competitive terms....

What is more from the discussion at Cutts' blog i want to keep his statement that PageRank isn’t spread equally among links and hasn’t been for years and years

So the big question is what technique do you think would be the most appropiate to apply on blogs?

what should be no followed?

Re: PageRank Sculpting Isn't Dead But Comments Can Kill Your PageRank

AndyBeard — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:12:32 -0000

Ignore PageRank when commenting, build relationships with people in your niche - it is just a bonus.
If you have a lot of comments on your blog, based on clarification today by Matt Cutts, it could have a negative effect.

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Re: PageRank Sculpting Isn't Dead But Comments Can Kill Your PageRank

AndyBeard — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:12:32 -0000

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Re: PageRank Sculpting Isn't Dead But Comments Can Kill Your PageRank

Sassyqarla — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:16:03 -0000

I can see a lot of advantages if you have a high PR like 6 or 7, specially if your site is indexed by Google News. I still don't know if the "follow" links are punished by Google.