Wake Up Man! Pagerank Sculpting Is DEAD!Written by Abdulrehman on August 7th, 2009
I can’t stress this enough. My respectable fellow bloggers around the blogosphere need to understand that the concept of pagerank sculpting died around late 2008. The reason why I thought of doing this post was because that many people still do not know about it and are nofollowing links on their blogs.
It is true that pagerank sculpting used to be really effective around a year ago but Matt Cutts wrote on his blog that they made this change around a year ago and he was sruprised that people didn’t notice the change.
What is Pagerank Sculpting?
I know that we have some beginners around and to make the whole scenario clear for them. Pagerank sculpting is was when you put a rel=”nofollow” tag on some links on your page to stop the link juice or the pagerank from flowing to them and use that to boost the juice being given to other pages that are link to.
However, since google has now dismissed pagerank sculpting, when you nofollow a link, you’re not saving the link juice or Pagerank, instead you’re allowing it to evaporate into thin air.
Now, instead of letting your link juice evaporate why wouldn’t you give that link a dofollow? It is going to be consumed anyways. The only person someone would put a nofollow at would be a an enemy.
While I’m not pushing you to make the blog comments dofollow, you may have your own reason (Comment spam). But at least, make all other links on your blog dofollow. Your blogroll, your top commentators’ list, links to other pages on your blog, etc.
I hope you get the point and make changes on your blog accordingly. For your information, this has been confirmed by Matt Cutts himself. The reason why I wrote this article was because yesterday I found over 50 blogs which had nofollow on either top commentators’ list, their blogroll or they were nofollowing links to their own blog (Which would be cutting your own legs).
Let me know what your views are on this topic. Whether you had nofollow on your blog before this or if you still have it then what is the reason for that nofollow tag. I’d be glad to hear. 
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I can’t stress this enough. My respectable fellow bloggers around the blogosphere need to understand that the concept of pagerank sculpting died around late 2008. The reason why I thought of doing this post was because that many people still do not know about it and are nofollowing links on their blogs.
It is true that pagerank sculpting used to be really effective around a year ago but Matt Cutts wrote on his blog that they made this change around a year ago and he was sruprised that people didn’t notice the change.
What is Pagerank Sculpting?
I know that we have some beginners around and to make the whole scenario clear for them. Pagerank sculpting is was when you put a rel=”nofollow” tag on some links on your page to stop the link juice or the pagerank from flowing to them and use that to boost the juice being given to other pages that are link to.
However, since google has now dismissed pagerank sculpting, when you nofollow a link, you’re not saving the link juice or Pagerank, instead you’re allowing it to evaporate into thin air.
Now, instead of letting your link juice evaporate why wouldn’t you give that link a dofollow? It is going to be consumed anyways. The only person someone would put a nofollow at would be a an enemy.
While I’m not pushing you to make the blog comments dofollow, you may have your own reason (Comment spam). But at least, make all other links on your blog dofollow. Your blogroll, your top commentators’ list, links to other pages on your blog, etc.
I hope you get the point and make changes on your blog accordingly. For your information, this has been confirmed by Matt Cutts himself. The reason why I wrote this article was because yesterday I found over 50 blogs which had nofollow on either top commentators’ list, their blogroll or they were nofollowing links to their own blog (Which would be cutting your own legs).
Let me know what your views are on this topic. Whether you had nofollow on your blog before this or if you still have it then what is the reason for that nofollow tag. I’d be glad to hear.
I am Abdulrehman Agha, the guy behind 3arn.Net. I am 17 years old, and live in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. I'm in Grade 11 studying in Saint Mary's Academy. I started this blog to share my money making experiences with others through the internet.
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You right people are put no follow om everything these days when you only need to put it on to discourage spam yahoo however seems to count all link whether they are no follow or not it would seem
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I agree with you totally. If a link is worthy of beimg placed on your site..thenwhy would you make it no-follow if it does not hurt your pagerank?
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I have replaced nofollow tags from my html code some time ago. I don’t see the point of it. When somebody puts the effort to comment my article (of course no spam), I would like to reward him at least by dofollow link.
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I wouldn’t recommend it, because it isn’t the most effective way to utilize your PageRank. In general, I would let PageRank flow freely within your site. The notion of “PageRank sculpting” has always been a second- or third-order recommendation for us. I would recommend the first-order things to pay attention to are 1) making great content that will attract links in the first place, and 2) choosing a site architecture that makes your site usable/crawlable for humans and search engines alike.
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both no follow and do follow rel have their own benefit
if you use do follow : more people will comment on your blog
if you use no follow : you will have better seo
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I am not aware of this.
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Is this a kind of spam comment? I am waiting for contest announcement….
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I think do follow is better one
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The no follow attribute is just a mechanism that gives webmasters the ability to modify Page Rank flow at link-level granularity.
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