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Are niche sites dead because of new Google rules on PageRank sculpting?
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from VLEdwards 970 Days ago #
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Great advice Matt! Thanks for the education:)

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from sza 970 Days ago #
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Very speculative thinking that assumes large sites nofollowed less important content to the degree where such content completely disappeared from the index.No intelligently operated site would do that.Most probably, pagerank-sculpting large sites would leave a couple of entry points to secondary content, which would, simply by the power of the domain, still rise near the top of the SERP.So the reversal of PR-sculpting thinking wouldn’t actually reverse much.

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from mjleonard 970 Days ago #
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Interesting point, sza. However, I’m betting most of those sites left enough to get it indexed but by removing the nofollows from multiple places will really have it rise. Just because a site is large, doesn’t mean its deep, unorganized content will rise above a niche site targeted specifically for that gap. My guess is that deep content will get new seo priority.

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