Do EDU sites with PR N/A have link power?

16 years ago

Every link has link juice.

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gamefan

16 years ago

Originally Posted by mgtarheels

Every link has link juice.

No, no-follow link has no juice in Big G.

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Mike Grant

16 years ago

Originally Posted by gamefan

No, no-follow link has no juice in Big G.

And I disagree, wholeheartedly, and so do some of my other SEO buddies.

Is it as much as a dofollow? Nope.

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gamefan

16 years ago

Originally Posted by mgtarheels

And I disagree, wholeheartedly, and so do some of my other SEO buddies.

Is it as much as a dofollow? Nope.

Don't argue on this point. Let's see what Google say.

Does Google recommend the use of nofollow internally as a positive method for controlling the flow of internal link love?
A) Yes – webmasters can feel free to use nofollow internally to help tell Googlebot which pages they want to receive link juice from other pages
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(Matt's precise words were: The nofollow attribute is just a mechanism that gives webmasters the ability to modify PageRank flow at link-level granularity. Plenty of other mechanisms would also work (e.g. a link through a page that is robot.txt'ed out), but nofollow on individual links is simpler for some folks to use. There's no stigma to using nofollow, even on your own internal links; for Google, nofollow'ed links are dropped out of our link graph; we don't even use such links for discovery. By the way, the nofollow meta tag does that same thing, but at a page level.)

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Mike Grant

16 years ago

Originally Posted by gamefan

Don't argue on this point. Let's see what Google say.

Does Google recommend the use of nofollow internally as a positive method for controlling the flow of internal link love?
A) Yes - webmasters can feel free to use nofollow internally to help tell Googlebot which pages they want to receive link juice from other pages
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(Matt's precise words were: The nofollow attribute is just a mechanism that gives webmasters the ability to modify PageRank flow at link-level granularity. Plenty of other mechanisms would also work (e.g. a link through a page that is robot.txt'ed out), but nofollow on individual links is simpler for some folks to use. There's no stigma to using nofollow, even on your own internal links; for Google, nofollow'ed links are dropped out of our link graph; we don't even use such links for discovery. By the way, the nofollow meta tag does that same thing, but at a page level.)

And you're playing into Cutts' ploy. Do you honestly think his intentions are for your benefit? He doesn't even know the entire algo. He flip flops often, and it's all to keep WMs guessing.

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