bakedjake - 12:05 am on Mar 16, 2004 (gmt 0)

steveb:

Well no, he obviously didn't say that. He is just suggesting how to accomplish the non-leak asked about in the first post.

I purposely took his quote out of context to clarify, and wanted to point out why it might be a bad idea to follow that advice, regardless of GG's post. (Said with total respect for GG)

netnerd:

The fact that i want to keep page rank is becuase (as anyone who wants to optimise for search engines will no doubt agree) that i want my site to rank well.

You're about to affirm the consequent. Don't do it.

PageRank is one of many, many variables used to rank pages. While PageRank leakage may cause a site to have lower rankings (everything else being the same - and I'm not convinced), is it really that relevant? Believe me, there are hundreds more important things to be doing first, before worrying about this.

If you can definitively show me evidence of PageRank leak and a drastic negative ranking effect as a result of it, please do.

Profile, don't speculate.