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Originally Posted by nullvariable
I've seen some pretty incredible PR sculpting using nofollow tags but I think John's method would have pretty much the same effect. |
If you read my post carefully, you will see that it does not only have a same effect. It has an extended effect, as you can achieve more than you can achieve alone with the "nofollow" attribute, robots.txt or robots meta tags.
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Originally Posted by nullvariable
I agree with Terry, its pretty much bullshit that we have two tags that say the same thing but mean different things. Especially when its proven that Google really does follow the links they just don't pass on your PR juice. I am testing out the rel=nofollow tags on my blog following some recommendations on reducing duplicate links and such but we'll see how valuable that works out to be. |
At least Matt Cutts is claiming that they do not crawl links condomized with the "nofollow" attribute:
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Matt Cutts: It is interesting. Whenever we talked about it originally, we said PageRank would not be passed, and the messaging that I tried to do was that it would not even be followed and it would not even be crawled. It turned out there was a really weird situation, where, if you had totally unique anchor text that nobody else had, we would not follow that link - but if we had found the page from some other source, we still had this anchor text lying around and we were willing to associate it with that page.
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Source: Interview with Google's Matt Cutts at Pubcon