Comments on: The 10 Commandments of PageRank Sculpting

By: netultimate

netultimate — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:50:04 +0000

give ur important keyword in the footer

By: George Susini

George Susini — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:07:47 +0000

Shayne you are correct on #9 Aaron Wall’s Firefox tool is incredible What an absolute must have for any SEO efforts. Thanks ! This is a great article

By: Kevin S.

Kevin S. — Sun, 10 May 2009 04:15:08 +0000

I made some big mistakes and my pagerank dropped from 6 to 0. I did some paid linking with PayPerPost and that dropped it from 6 to 2. Then, I combined several blogs into one — it evidently looked to Google like I was posting information available elsewhere because it then dropped from 2 to 0.

What should I do to redeem my PageRank?

Kevin Stilley

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sat, 09 May 2009 22:16:19 +0000

>> You know, I just don’t get why people are so obsessed with PageRank sculpting.

I think it has to do with the fact that people are selling links…or selling sites based on PR. I can’t think of any reason that anyone who doesn’t participate in that kind of junk gives a rip. From what I understand, PR bears only the loosest relationship to a site’s rank in the SERPs.

By: wiseweb

wiseweb — Thu, 07 May 2009 11:54:55 +0000

Hey thanks for the great info. I just want to add some words to No. 4: tag clouds are great as they provide sensible navigation for readers. However, they ‘confuse’ search engines as most posts or articles include more than one tag and each tag would generate a corresponding url pointing to the same post or info, which is a form of duplicating contents.

By: mattymcg

mattymcg — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:09:04 +0000

Hey Jim

Thanks for pointing that out, we’ll get that stuff fixed. We made a few tweaks recently and obviously a few things slipped through.

By: Buck 50

Buck 50 — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:22:02 +0000

Very good info these are things that I was not aware of

By: anon

anon — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:23:32 +0000

@brad –

tag clouds suck from a usability perspective.

-usability expert.

By: Jim Westergren

Jim Westergren — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:57:23 +0000

Some good advice but the implementation of this on Sitepoint is really wacko in my opinion. Why would you nofollow links to your forums, sitemap and about us but follow links to technorati tags and rss feeds?

By: BrianRatzker

BrianRatzker — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:02:54 +0000

I do agree that sculpting is usually about how the links flow through the website to emphasize the more important sections. However, not all the ideas in this post are worthless. I think the better way to analyze this post is that if you’re spending your time making these types of changes to your website, you aren’t spending your time effectively doing SEO. When it comes to your website, less is more. When it comes to SEO, if you aren’t building links in some manner, you will likely never achieve adequate results.