The head of the Google Anti Spam team, Matt Cutts has clarified Google position on this ‘NoFollow’ and ‘PageRank’ debate thats been raging for the last week or so, and that I posted about last week: “The PageRank and NoFollow bombshell“.

I made the following comment on the blog post:

This still encourages larger, more professionally run websites not to ’share the wealth’ of PageRank to other sites. How is a small niche website ever going to get decent results in SERPS if when a bigger site does link to it, it nofollows the link? Not passing any PageRank benefit, or anchor text through the link does nothing to encourage smaller more specialised sites – it encourages the bigger, broader sites to hoard the goodness.

If the web is about getting the most relevant content to the searcher, how is an information site about a niche subject less relevant than an Amazon product page?

You can read the full post by Matt Cutts here: PageRank sculpting.