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By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:43:27 +0000

Garry -

I’m here at SMX Seattle, and just talked with Matt Cutts personally about this.

I specifically mentioned the whole “piderman” example post etc. and he assured me 100% that…

1. “no follow” passes no PR
2. “no follow’ passes no anchor text weight.
3. It’s still 100% “okay”, “white hat” etc. to nofollow whatever you like, for whatever reason you like, including funneling page rank.

The piderman example and another one he mentioned about a “Texas used car” thing, was a temporary glitch in the algo, that was repaired

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By: garry

garry — Thu, 31 May 2007 23:04:57 +0000

Hi Scott
Thanks for your blog. It’s great advice.
I read it a lot.

I would like you to ask about ‘nofollow’.

I have found that having outbound links, followed or now, improves my SERP.

I follow all links. Is it REALLY true about the PageRank algorithm not giving weight to ‘nofollow’ links?

Thanks
Garry