A few weeks ago, Rusty Brick over at Search Engine Roundtable floated a poll asking what webmasters plan to do in light of Matt Cutts’ announcement in June.
As you may remember, Cutts announced at the SMX Conference in late May and early June that noFollow links will not work like they have in the past. Search engine optimization professionals have used them in a practice known as PageRank sculpting.
Instead of having link juice go to static pages like an “about us” or “contact us” page, webmasters could redirect it to higher yielding pages by using noFollow links.
But that’s changing thanks to Google’s new policy…38% of webmasters however will continue to use them according to this poll.
Forum discussion at WebMasterWorld seems mixed…many SEO professionals are still digesting the news of all this.