Comments on: Nofollow Makes News at SMX Advanced

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:46:14 +0000

If Microsoft and Yahoo ignore the No Follow tag, as is supposed to be the case, then the reason most of my well-sculpted site rankings are identical in all 3 major search engines must be that Google have been sidelining PR sculpting for some while anyway.

Just one point - if Google do start seriously ignoring their own tag then they'll need to introduce a new one so that we can internally strike out duplicate content sections like archives, otherwise we're back to square one on that issue having to use javascript redirects.

By: Virginia Nussey

Virginia Nussey — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:44:57 +0000

Hi Ray, thanks for your comment. I hope I didn’t confuse things too much. This post will be updated to better reflect the use we do recommend for nofollow — namely, as a minor, additional support for siloing. Bruce Clay, Inc. developed the technique of siloing before nofollow existed, so siloing will continue to be a strong strategy even if nofollow is not supported in the future. However, it is hard to say what effect a Google nofollow policy change will have because no official word has been released from Google itself. While the discussion currently occurring across the blogosphere is intriguing, it’s all speculation until we hear from Google how they intend to treat the nofollow attribute.

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:53:35 +0000

Am I missing something here? Unless I'm using frames and/or flash in my navigation to do my siloing, how does this not effect the Bruce Clay silo strategy? Doesn't Bruce say nofollow is an effective way to create your themes?

We are the middle of trying to theme and silo our site, and this seems like it would have a big effect on that effort.