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#redirect [[DoFollow]]
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== Why NoFollow?==
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AboutUs is here to be a guide to the internet. Linking to bad actors (which is a consequence of linking to everyone) has two bad effects:
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# It makes search results less reliable because a highly regarded site ([[ABoutUs.org]]) is linking to a poorly regarded site.
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# Since search engines are committed to providing good results, [[AboutUs.org]] as a whole can be penalized for linking to bad actors.
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To avoid linking to bad actors, [[AboutUs]] has decided to turn on NoFollow for all external links, with certain exceptions. The plan is to continue to expand those exceptions as far as possible to reward the good actors on the internet, while continuing to withhold benefits from bad actors, or those not interested in building this public resource.
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== Search engine optimization ==
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[[Search engine optimization]] (SEO) is the art of getting your web site to appear high up on the list when people do certain searches on Google, Yahoo, and other search engines. It's one of the most fundamental ways of establishing a solid online presence.
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Many of the people who work on AboutUs pages are here to promote their businesses, treating their AboutUs pages as a critical part of their SEO strategies. A good AboutUs page can attract individual readers to your site, but for SEO, it's actually more important to attract "web spiders" -- the automatic programs that companies like Google and Yahoo use to build their search indexes -- to your site.
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Web pages often have an embedded code, known as the "nofollow tag," that is an instruction to web spiders; it tells them whether or not they are permitted to follow a certain link. Most (but not all) web spiders respect this instruction. If a "nofollow" tag is set, it tells the spider to ignore the link, so the location of the linked page (in this case, the actual web site corresponding to an AboutUs page) gets ignored.
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AboutUs [http://blog.aboutus.org/2008/05/22/aboutusorg-nofollow-wha/ recently made the decision] to have their pages, by default, set the "nofollow" tag, denying spiders the right to index web sites. But AboutUs is also turning it off, by request, for pages that people have put work into.
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We haven't yet figured out how to make a request, or to whom, or what criteria that person will use to make a decision.
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== What does it mean ==
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if links are NoFollow and how can I tell?
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A simple way to determine whether or not links are being followed on a page is to right-click on the page and select “View Page Source.” In that window do a search (Ctrl + F) for rel=”nofollow” and look at the web address next to it. If you don’t find any results for your search, then none of the links on the page have a nofollow attributed to them.
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Innviting the search engines to index and follow our AboutUs pages, as shown below, will substantially improve the quality of the relationship and the volume of traffic between the search engines and AboutUs.
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<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">
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Traffic is generally good for business '''NOT''' supressing traffic. Restraining traffic also restrains interactions and \generally has the opposite effect. As traffic and business interactions are supported and encouraged, even between countries, all of the various participants experience financial growth and increases in the quality of everyday life. Every pebble thrown into the lake generates innumerable ripples and consequences. I believe that removing any restrictons from indexing and following will send beneficiaL ripples further than we can now imagine.
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Hugh Brecher
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== What's the opposite of that? ==
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These are the two common versions as generally used in html headers:
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<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">
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and
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<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
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Hugh Brecher
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==Currently==
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What's the current situation with links at AboutUs?
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Currently, [[AboutUsFeatured]] and [[AboutUsSpotlighted]] articles are followed.
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* Featured have gone through our original community process.
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* Spotlighted go through our company process
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* We need to develop a new community process
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== What's the AboutUs future plan? ==
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==Discussions to integrate==
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* [[PageRankRecommendations]]
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== Requests to turn off nofollow==
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=== Pending ===
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* [[User:AlexanderZ|Alexander Zlatin]] asks in [[LiveChat]] for [[ChemicalAid.com]] [[User:TedErnst|TedErnst]]
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* [http://blog.aboutus.org/2008/05/22/aboutusorg-nofollow-wha/#comment-28810 Michael VanDeMar] requests [[Better-Mortgage-Rate.com]] no followed
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Please turn off "nofollow" or just switch it to "follow" for each of the following pages, each of which is my work:
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:[[jewelry-casting.net]]
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Thank you, [[User:Hugh Brecher|Hugh Brecher]]
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::: ''Hugh, please see below for the requests that have been granted. [[jewlrey-casting.net]] hasn't been worked on yet (it appears) and thus is still pending. [[User:TedErnst|TedErnst]] ([[User talk:TedErnst|talk]])''
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*[[User:Antmoretechllc|Anthony]] requests [[InstantCallBlast.com]]. (We are going to work together to make the page look a little better first.) [[Kristina Weis|Kristina]] <small>([[Kristina Weis/Contact|contact me]])</small> 14:22, 26 June 2008 (PDT)
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=== granted ===
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* Pete Forsyth asks in a [http://blog.aboutus.org/2008/05/22/aboutusorg-nofollow-wha/#comment-27496 weblog comment]] for [[WikiProjectOregon.wordpress.com]] - 30 May 2008 -- ''Pete is in Portland, a known [[RealPerson]], doing beneficial work.'' -- [[TedErnst]]
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* [[User:Sshefri|Sam]] requests [[SeoCompanyService.com]] be featured (he worked on several pages before that were). -- ''Sam has been around [[AboutUs]] for a long time, adding to the project.'' -- [[TedErnst]]
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* [[4TulsaRealty.com]], [[TheTulsaBricklayer.com]], [[4Trademark.com]], [[LegalClosing.com]], [[RelevantArticles.Org]], [[TulsaJewelryByHenry.com]], [[HughBrecher.com]], [[RelevantArticles.Org]] -- ''Hugh has built out all these pages, plus has a client relationship with [[AboutUs]]'' -- [[TedErnst]]
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: ''Hugh has coined the term in the AboutUs Family - :-) '' ~~ [[MarkDilley]]
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==Suggestions:==
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What if you were to reward editors who specifically found and added content to a certain number of websites that don’t already exist in the wiki? Say, perhaps, at least 3? That, in conjunction with minimum time that you must be a member before getting your links followed, would both cut down on fly by night editors, only interested in adding their own content, as well as encourage people to find new sites to add.
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I know that for myself, and I would guess for most people who are comfortable writing content, doing reviews on 3 sites that are not competing with mine would not be burdensome in the least.
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Recently sparked by [http://blog.aboutus.org/2008/05/22/aboutusorg-nofollow-wha/ AboutUs.org + Nofollow = Wha...?]
