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Originally Posted by AVC
Google wants legitimate webmasters to use no follow on user generated content, outlaws will not do it, they will simply be de-indexed.
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Ummm... de-indexing seems a little harsh... after the Florida update there was obvious de-indexing of directories that were selling links by the pound. Yes there were a number of bogus "general" directories but... the quality was such that IMO, only a researcher or manipulator submitted to them anyway. They all were near useless for ranking shortly after the florida/hilltop update many slipped in
PR and had grey barred pages. Oddly the grey bar is gone but I still can't find them in a result for "SeoPros.org".
Myself and other members reviewed over 100 and posted the reviews on SeoPros. We were including service in the reviews so we actually submitted to all the sites listed in the reviews. the
PR on SeoPros didn't improve by submitting to them. Will we be nofollowing the links from the reviews to some of the directories... In the words of Quagmuire "oh yeah".
How many visitors do we get from the directories... let's just say a very large % were a complete waste of time. We get less than 1% of our traffic from all directories, we see the spiders more often then visitors. One member accounts for more visitors from his site and the mention of the org in his bio then all directories and some majors. What's that say about general directories... most are just about the link and therefore manipulation... it's all pretty simple if you leave SEs out of the decision making.
Legitimate webmasters should know when user generated content should be released for consumption. If you allow only trusted posting then... obviously the webmaster can choose to implement the "nofollow"
based on it making sense to them, not Google. Sculpting
PR is wacked and IMO, not in the spirit of anything beyond manipulation... beware, if this is ever to be a "legit" use of nofollow that is a very abusive use of it and giving
unfair advantage to the webmasters doing it! IMO, it's similar to frame spam because it's not "proper HTML" and IMO, any self respecting SE should know that. It's as obvious as knowing
SEO's would buy links to place higher, we're marketers and we see the ROI so... it makes sense to pay for positions on SE's in the short run... in the long run it's better to just do what you'd do if SE's didn't exist.