Michael because people use it does that prove it works??
First off on the topic of Matt and Rand's conversation I will simple quote
Michael Martinez comments as he says it better than I ever could on that Q and A thread:
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I think Matt is clearly encouraging the SEO community to play with PageRank sculpting, knowing fully well they can’t do it properly.
But what do you think of Matt’s followup to Rand on SEOmoz itself, where Rand went way over the top with his interpretation of Matt’s interview answers?
What do you think of Rand’s own admissions that he screwed up the indexing of more than one site when he tried to implement his own advice?
What do you think of the idea of people not just saying, “Hey! Wow! Great post!” but instead actually TESTING the ideas that are thrown out on SEO blogs before saying anything?
Stopping to test could keep a lot of people from making embarrassing remarks and commitments to clients and employers.
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In Stephen's example above are we to believe that this implementation of the nofollow attribute on the image and product view links was done by itself with no other SEO changes? This would be helpful in understanding if the doing this technique actually helped the ranking of the product pages. If so did the product pages then go up in rankings substantially? This would be nice to know.
We need to stop jumping on the bandwagon of SEO techniques so quickly without properly testing this stuff out. Just because conceptually something seems like this should work doesn't mean that it does.
I am asking a simple question. Is this a stand alone technique that can benefit your website? I really have yet to see proof of it, rather just speak of how cool of tool it is.