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Peter (IMC) · #**152** (**permalink**) 03-28-2008, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by incrediblehelp

I was on a call with Matt Cutt's, Adam Lasnik and other Googler's and I brought this topic up at the end of the call. Basically Matt said if you site navigation is fundamentally sound (which it should be in the first place) he said you would be wise spending your time in other optimization techniques.

Take that as you will.

Update on PR Sculpting Question from Google Webmaster Help Groups Call and Matt Cutts - Search Marketing Blog from Cincinnati, Ohio

Glad somebody agrees with me...

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Originally Posted by Webnauts

One thing I still did not understand about the whole PageRank Sculpting story.

As we all know, Google is against PageRank manipulation. Or?
And now their employees are telling us how to manipulate the PageRank of our sites, using i.e the nofollow attribute.

Did I miss something?

Just thinking out loud.

this has had me pondering for a little while now too.

and great thread guys, best discussion have seen on this anywhere.

Pagerank manipulation is not the same thing as creating a good hiarchy in your website. Google employees probably just respond to questions about the nofollow and are then understood to be saying that it is ok to use nofollow to block pagerank. But that's not the case of course.

Blocking PR (sculpting) is nothing new. The nofollow did not make this all the sudden possible. It has always been possible. Use a simple javascript onclick and you get the exact same result. Usually one of your jobs as an SEO is to take out everything that potentially blocks search engines, not to add stuff that purposely blocks search engines.