ProFollow
In our effort to grow a valuable guide to websites, we want to give link love to good sites with good AboutUs pages.
Since we don't want to give link love to "bad actors" such as parked and adult sites, scams, etc. we decided to default to NoFollow. But unlike many sites (Facebook, Wikipedia, Twitter) that make all external links added by their users NoFollow, AboutUs.org is a place that will remove that NoFollow attribute for people (and sites) making good contributions.
To nominate a website's AboutUs page for "ProFollow", please:
- Confirm that the website you would like to ProFollow is a "good actor" on the web
- Edit and build a great domain page for the site here at AboutUs (we want to reward good content) by editing it with the suggestions and instructions on our How to improve AboutUs pages page.
- Note that a summary (at the top of the page - "click here to sum up"), unique description of the site (in your own words, not copy/pasted from the website), contact info, and relevant tags are required for ProFollow (and an image is highly encouraged). Instructions and more suggestions can be found here.
- When the site's page looks great (or if you have questions):
- email us at
(subject = "ProFollow") - or chat with us (works best Mon-Fri 9:30-5:30 PST)
- email us at
See also:
- Our weblog post about ProFollow
- Wikipedia's article about NoFollow
- Google's article about NoFollow
- Bloggers that have talked about our ProFollow policy:
- SearchStatus' Firefox add-on that allows you to highlight no-follow links on a web page (in addition to showing its PageRank and Alexa rank)
- Examples of good AboutUs pages