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	<title>Comments on: The Art of Google PageRank Sculpting &amp; Five Sculpting&#160;Tips</title>
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		<title>By: Pushpendra</title>
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		<dc:creator>Pushpendra</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>for me,getting traffic on my websites is more important than page rank. If my pages are in serp with 0 page rank,I m happy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>for me,getting traffic on my websites is more important than page rank. If my pages are in serp with 0 page rank,I m happy.</p>
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		<title>By: Archive National</title>
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		<dc:creator>Archive National</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Most webmasters fails ranking in Google Results because they don&#039;t follow all the SEO suggestions

Google Site suggestions are importants on the selection of keywords. On the search bar of the new browsers firefox, or IExplorer with google toolbar. As you type, Google will offer suggestions keys to navigate the results.

Almost any website, can have a good ranking in google following this instructions. Put attention to this keywords and use it on your websites, and this will drive more search Engine traffic to your site. 

for more info and tips visit

http://Tecni.Com/en/seo.htm

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most webmasters fails ranking in Google Results because they don&#8217;t follow all the SEO suggestions</p>
<p>Google Site suggestions are importants on the selection of keywords. On the search bar of the new browsers firefox, or IExplorer with google toolbar. As you type, Google will offer suggestions keys to navigate the results.</p>
<p>Almost any website, can have a good ranking in google following this instructions. Put attention to this keywords and use it on your websites, and this will drive more search Engine traffic to your site. </p>
<p>for more info and tips visit</p>
<p><a href="http://Tecni.Com/en/seo.htm" rel="nofollow">http://Tecni.Com/en/seo.htm</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ArchiveNational.Com" rel="nofollow"></p>
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		<title>By: Halfdeck</title>
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		<dc:creator>Halfdeck</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I often totally disagree with Graywolf but man he&#039;s got a way with words.

&quot;Use your robots.txt file, META noindex tags and other measures like javascript when needed to shape your efforts from multiple angles.&quot;

Not quite Eric. If you disallow META noindexed pages, for example, that META tag never gets read, therefore the META noindex will not work and the page may still show in the SERPs.

If you robots.txt disallow a URL, it will still accumulate PageRank, so you&#039;re still flowing juice to useless pages.

META noindex,follow is an option and the other failsafe approach, of course, is rel nofollow.

Before deciding to sculpt PageRank, run a site:domain.com/* - if that returns less than 1,000, do not bother, because the site probably doesn&#039;t have enough &quot;play-doh&quot; to play with. Instead, I would work on creating new content that will attract another batch of fresh backlinks. Sometimes its better to make $10,000 than to spend time figuring out how to go from 5% to 6% interest on a $100,000 nest egg.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I often totally disagree with Graywolf but man he&#8217;s got a way with words.</p>
<p>&#8220;Use your robots.txt file, META noindex tags and other measures like javascript when needed to shape your efforts from multiple angles.&#8221;</p>
<p>Not quite Eric. If you disallow META noindexed pages, for example, that META tag never gets read, therefore the META noindex will not work and the page may still show in the SERPs.</p>
<p>If you robots.txt disallow a URL, it will still accumulate PageRank, so you&#8217;re still flowing juice to useless pages.</p>
<p>META noindex,follow is an option and the other failsafe approach, of course, is rel nofollow.</p>
<p>Before deciding to sculpt PageRank, run a site:domain.com/* &#8211; if that returns less than 1,000, do not bother, because the site probably doesn&#8217;t have enough &#8220;play-doh&#8221; to play with. Instead, I would work on creating new content that will attract another batch of fresh backlinks. Sometimes its better to make $10,000 than to spend time figuring out how to go from 5% to 6% interest on a $100,000 nest egg.</p>
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		<title>By: r</title>
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		<dc:creator>r</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I wouldn&#039;t bother with PR sculpting.  For starters you could be working from a tool bar figure that&#039;s either massively out of date or just plain wrong, and that&#039;s even if there was any benefit from it which there isn&#039;t really since the SERP works mainly on relevance.

This is what Matt Cutts had to say on the subject at SMX 2008:

Matt Cutts: &quot;Whether people should bother with PageRank sculpting. I reiterated Shari Thurow’s point that if you design your information and site architecture well, it’s not something that you need to worry about at all. This was considered an advanced conference, so I didn’t shut the door on the idea completely, but I did try to get across that there’s an opportunity cost to sculpting and that the vast majority of people would get more benefit from spending their time working on making their site more compelling(so they got more links/PageRank) rather than obsessing about how to move around the PageRank that they have. &quot;

And that&#039;s straight from the horses mouth, so to speak.  I agree with the posters above, it&#039;s not even on my list of priorities, I&#039;d rather use the time more productively and trust that my semantic site architecture is mostly doing the job for me anyways.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wouldn&#8217;t bother with PR sculpting.  For starters you could be working from a tool bar figure that&#8217;s either massively out of date or just plain wrong, and that&#8217;s even if there was any benefit from it which there isn&#8217;t really since the SERP works mainly on relevance.</p>
<p>This is what Matt Cutts had to say on the subject at SMX 2008:</p>
<p>Matt Cutts: &#8220;Whether people should bother with PageRank sculpting. I reiterated Shari Thurow’s point that if you design your information and site architecture well, it’s not something that you need to worry about at all. This was considered an advanced conference, so I didn’t shut the door on the idea completely, but I did try to get across that there’s an opportunity cost to sculpting and that the vast majority of people would get more benefit from spending their time working on making their site more compelling(so they got more links/PageRank) rather than obsessing about how to move around the PageRank that they have. &#8221;</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s straight from the horses mouth, so to speak.  I agree with the posters above, it&#8217;s not even on my list of priorities, I&#8217;d rather use the time more productively and trust that my semantic site architecture is mostly doing the job for me anyways.</p>
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		<title>By: Some Guy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Some Guy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Pagerank sculpting?

Although page rank is of some importance, as you said in your post, there are pages witrh low PR that do well in the SERPs compared to the higher ranking webpages

I think a large number of internet marketers are one man shows. 

The ensuing restrictions in time makes page rank sculpting, in my view, something that does not even begin to feature on my list of priorities

Thanks for the interesting post</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pagerank sculpting?</p>
<p>Although page rank is of some importance, as you said in your post, there are pages witrh low PR that do well in the SERPs compared to the higher ranking webpages</p>
<p>I think a large number of internet marketers are one man shows. </p>
<p>The ensuing restrictions in time makes page rank sculpting, in my view, something that does not even begin to feature on my list of priorities</p>
<p>Thanks for the interesting post</p>
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		<title>By: Alphane Moon</title>
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		<dc:creator>Alphane Moon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree with Michael Martinez. PageRank Sculpting belongs in the same category as &quot;Google is using an LSI algorithm&quot;. File under: Myth.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree with Michael Martinez. PageRank Sculpting belongs in the same category as &#8220;Google is using an LSI algorithm&#8221;. File under: Myth.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Martinez</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael Martinez</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>PageRank sculpting is a fool&#039;s errand.  You cannot measure PageRank and you cannot determine where it will flow with a useful level of precision.

The sooner the SEO community lets go of this mythical nonsense, the better.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>PageRank sculpting is a fool&#8217;s errand.  You cannot measure PageRank and you cannot determine where it will flow with a useful level of precision.</p>
<p>The sooner the SEO community lets go of this mythical nonsense, the better.</p>
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