So yes, I really do think ‘it’ will make a difference - you need to cultivate partnerships with other companies in your area, run press releases - all the same kind of things that you’d do in the offline world to promote a new business.

Cheers,

Matt

I think the SEO world is plagued by too many unprovable theories seemingly involving the phase of the moon or the positioning of the stars essentially leading to the blind leading the blind.

Although “logic”, “observation” and anecdotal “evidence” all have their places, without proof from real world situations that can definitively prove something one way or another, they are all little more than wild guesses and I think we have all seen how far wild guesses can go to becoming a widely accepted “reality”.

It’s nice to see your example of proof positive of what has only been a theory up to this point in this discussion.

The question then becomes though, what if, instead of “DISALLOW” that page was only “NOINDEX”, would it then pass PageRank?

M

Check out my robots.txt at http://iblogget.com/robots.txt

It’s specifically disallowed, and not indexed by Google, has always shown up in webmaster tools as a URL blocked by robots.txt