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Six Questions With Vanessa Fox

Went Hot: May 5, 2008 - 12:15 am
Posted By: Jill 426 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: SEM Industry

Lisa Barone had a great interview with Vanessa Fox. (Surprised it wasn't sphunn already!) Learn what Vanessa is currently up to, as well as her thoughts on "PageRank Sculpting" and more!

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from theGypsy 426 days ago #

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he he.. usually do Sphinn (the)Lisa's goodies... and read this one; just slacking since I broke my hand.. ;0(

from incrediblehelp 425 days ago #

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Good to hear Adam and Vaneesa agreeing that PR Sculpting is not much to worry about.

from CraigGeis 424 days ago #

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I agree that most sites need to take care of the fundamentals long before thinking about PR sculpting.
Robots.txt can keep the bots off a page, but it is no guarantee that the page won’t be indexed plus it does not prevent PR from flowing to the page through internal and external links.

“Now, robots.txt says you are not allowed to crawl a page, and Google therefore does not crawl pages that are forbidden in robots.txt. However, they can accrue PageRank, and they can be returned in our search results.” -- http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-matt-cutts.shtml

Vanessa makes it sound as though PR sculpting takes a lot of effort. In most cases, I disagree.