Comments on: To nofollow or not? http://www.spiderwritingseo.co.uk/blog/seo-blogs/to-nofollow-or-not.php common sense from a Scottish SEO consultant Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:07:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: IMJUK http://www.spiderwritingseo.co.uk/blog/seo-blogs/to-nofollow-or-not.php#comment-11227 IMJUK Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:17:56 +0000 http://www.spiderwritingseo.co.uk/blog/seo-blogs/to-nofollow-or-not.php#comment-11227 Hey Bill, nice article. I do remember doing some testing where by you obfuscate links in JavaScript on internal links so as to force PageRank etc onto specific pages in a website - this was about three and a half years ago. It did deliver on some tests but on others seemed a little bit off too much effort for not too much return. The little green fairy dust bar showed some movemenet but only on the strongest of sites. It was far simpler to refine the navigation on the site and ensure that everything on the site was working effectively. As to the ethical issue of basically cloaking links on some level I have to agree that it does all seem a dilemma that the search engines, to a man, require addressing. Would have placed a sphinn but their registration form aint working - someones disabled it :( Hey Bill,
nice article. I do remember doing some testing where by you obfuscate links in JavaScript on internal links so as to force PageRank etc onto specific pages in a website - this was about three and a half years ago. It did deliver on some tests but on others seemed a little bit off too much effort for not too much return. The little green fairy dust bar showed some movemenet but only on the strongest of sites. It was far simpler to refine the navigation on the site and ensure that everything on the site was working effectively.

As to the ethical issue of basically cloaking links on some level I have to agree that it does all seem a dilemma that the search engines, to a man, require addressing.

Would have placed a sphinn but their registration form aint working - someones disabled it :(

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