Nofollow not working for page rank distribution

[Slinger]

Our business site is about 30 pages. About a month ago, I installed rel="nofollow" on links going to all secondary pages such as About, Privacy, FAQ etc., and I tried to have my Page Rank flow to our keyword specific pages. So this week, Nov 14, 2008 Google came by my site and adjusted my Toolbar Page Rank. My About pages still have their old rank and some of the pages I wanted Rank for doesnt have any. It's so confusing. Google tells us this is how to funnel your rank onto your important keyword pages, their Toolbar Rank is adjusted and the results are all over the place. Any input on this?

[MadeWillis]

TBPR is not always a correct indication of true page rank. What color is the bar on the pages you seemed to have lost PR? Is it white or gray? Sometimes this can indicate a hand review, other times it means nothing at all. One month may not be enough time to fully evaluate the changes you have made. The most important thing to look at is whether you have gained or lost any positioning thus far.

Other than the little green bar on your browser, which often means nothing at all, what else are you doing to monitor the changes you have made?

I suggest using the search function to find other posts on the same subject.

[ZydoSEO]

By rel="nofollow"ing your links to those pages on your site, you are choosing NOT to send link juice to those pages which means you send more juice to other outbound links on the pages where you have the rel="nofollow" links. The reason that those pages can continue to rank or even grow in PR is that other sites likely still link to those pages and those links ARE followed. So those pages (though you don't pass them Link Juice) are getting link juice from other sites that are linking to them.

[edited by: ZydoSEO at 4:23 am (utc) on Nov. 21, 2008]

[pageoneresults]

Google tells us this is how to funnel your rank onto your important keyword pages.

Could I ask for a link to that reference please?

<meta name="robots" content="noindex">

The above will keep those pages from accumulating PR based on my experience.

I do have quite a few sites using the noindex directive and it is doing what it is supposed to do.

Here's a recent Home Page topic (Supporters Forum) discussing the rel="nofollow" a little more in depth...

Pagerank Sculpting / Nofollow Sculpting
2008-11-04 - [webmasterworld.com...]

[hulvert]

As a little experiement, I'm going to see if a nofollow link can help a linked page rank for an anchor text keyword:

So I've posted < experimental anchor text > in a few nofollow blog comments.

Then in a week or so I'll see if this page is ranked for the term.

[edited by: tedster at 4:54 pm (utc) on Dec. 18, 2008]