ElfLinks
http://elflinks.com/
$97
Sales Copy excerpt:
Bonus Benefit - PageRank Sculpting
Elf Links let you manipulate PageRank to get higher SEO rankings.
Originally, the "nofollow" tag for links told Google PageRank was not supposed to be passed to the linked page.
But after Google saw how webmasters were abusing this to make certain web pages rank higher, Google said "nofollow" also means PageRank is still subtracted with the link.
What does this mean?
If your web page has "20 points" of PageRank and you have 5 links on the page, each link sends "4 points" of PageRank juice to the page being linked to. If one link is to your privacy policy and has a "nofollow" tag no PageRank goes to your privacy policy page so it won't rank. But you still just lost 4 points.
With Elf Links you can use an Elf Link to your privacy policy page. Since you do not lose any PR juice you send "5 points" of PageRank with your other 4 links. More PageRank will help them rank higher.
This is how you can manipulate your links to make some web pages rank higher.
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So, I was wondering if there was any value to ElfLinks, or if anyone had any experience with it?
I can't help but find myself very disappointed with my PrettyLinks purchase...
1. Didn't do anything to (hide) clickbank links... in fact they were stripped and no longer offered my affiliate code to the viewer (by clickbank themselves)
2. A recent security breech I "suffered" that seemed to target PrettyLinks
I expected more for a purchase that was equal to ElfLinks in price, and didn't seem to potentially protect against Google penalties.
Also, is there a way to manually integrate ElfLink's strategy into a php code?
Seems to me like this is something where there's a much cleaner solution.
I don't know much about SEO, but for arguments sake let's say Google just looks for any <a href=""> elements and considers those links.
If you don't want something like a privacy policy to appear as a link, just do something like:
a) set it to span/p element
b) edit the CSS so that on hover you get a hand/cursor like you would for a link
c) use javascript to trigger a popup or redirect on click
I presume that's just what something like ElfLinks does...