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SES New York 2008: Video Interview With Greg Boser by WebProNews
SEM News Source: http://videos.webpronews.com
Published: Mar 21, 2008 - 07:03 am
Story Found By: DavidWallace 1425 Days ago
Category: SEM
Greg Boser, the President of Web Guerrilla LLC, spoke to Mike McDonald of WebProNews at the Search Engine Strategies Conference in New York. Boser discusses the infamous “PageRank Sculpting” and recommends its use.
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from planetc1 1422 Days ago #
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WPN video is so nice and clean and the player loads well in my browser. Anyone suggest options for reproducing this for videos that are not high bandwidth (but high quality) and can be hosted on a dedicated server?

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from incrediblehelp 1422 Days ago #
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I had a recent coversation through email with Aaron Wall.  I sent him a few of my points concerning PR Sculpting and how much i thought it was a load of crap: Point 1 - We live in a bubble.  99% of the world doesn’t know what nofollow is and probably will never know until the W3 add it as proper markup.  So are we to believe that Google has granted SEOs ONLY this special attribute that can help us rank better.  No. It is only for Google benefit, not ours. Point 2 - The theory has not been tested enough and probably can’t be properly tested since to many outside forces effect rankings.  That is why this 2nd order effect has no bearing.  No has proven that spending a few minutes using nofollow helps your website do any better.  Google is simply telling you that is will. Point 3 - External nofollow: The web and Google’s algorithm was built on the concept of linking one document to another. Now we should continue to do this, but in way that does not pass search engine value through the link?  Who is benefiting here?  The SE algo only. This really goes against why the web was built on links. Point 4 - Internal nofollow: I simply default to this post by Michael Martinez: http://seo-theory.com/wordpress/2008/03/05/yes-virginia-your-contact-page-does-need-500-links/  Point 5 - PR is not tangible.  One page doesn’t have 100 PR credits that you can feel free to divvy up as you like through internal linking.  It is not that simple.  The point I am trying to make is that these SEOs are trying to say they can sculpt something like PR. We all know toolbar PR is crap and internal PR is not known so…..where does one get off saying they can sculpt something they don’t know?

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from Gab 1422 Days ago #
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"where does one get off saying they can sculpt something they don’t know?"If you can get dressed in the dark, why not sculpt in the dark? Surely the results will be equally as effective! ;)Hehe, I’m just being silly. IMHO, it could have an effect, but it kills the point of PR. You’ll recall that it measures the likelihood of people visiting any given site. Hence Yahoo = PR 10, newbie blogspot blogs = 0. But with PR being prophesized as a voting/democratic system (nice public relations move, Google/Matt), you end up with dorky ideas like nofollow that are unrelated to whether or not someone will click a link...

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from JohnWeb 1422 Days ago #
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" 99% of the world doesn’t know what nofollow is and probably will never know until the W3 add it as proper markup"After that 98.999999% still won’t know about it.

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from incrediblehelp 944 Days ago #
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PR Sculpting is crap and I am so tired of hearing about it.

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