adding nofollow means you care about what search engines think. adding them to free listings means you are selling links. I think this answer your question Marius as well.
You know what? You are damn right! No matter what you choose they'll find a reason to punish your site if they want to... As an experiment I'm going to no-follow the manually added websites...let's see what's gonna happend...
I think best thing is do just like dmoz, business.com and yahoo, no nofollow tags and editorial integrity and forget about what the seach engines say.
That would be nice, ideally speaking. But with billions of web pages out there, I can't see how human editors could begin to wade through it all in order to pick out quality sites.
As a rule of my website I add minimum 10 quality websites to every paid review. I usually search for a keyword and then have a look on the first 10 google pages...if I like something I'll add to my directory Here is a category which is nearly finished http://www.zyas.com/Arts/ the rest of them...hmmm...plenty work to be done
Nice - I am currently working on the regional section which has turned into a larger project than thought.
LOL Bruce, I don't even want to think at the regional category...I'll leave it at the end, that's for sure
I think it'll look like you're hoarding PR or just passing the juice to paying customers (selling links). Build your directory for your end user - they could care less about nofollow. Why else would a directory owner use nofollow on authority/quality editorial additions, yet use a static link to average sites that just happen to be paying a fee?
CReed, you are right, no doubt...but (there is always a but)...you see...this story has two sides, both of them acceptable in my opinion. First is the one you just described, on the other hand is the respect for your clients if you want... As long as you approved a paid review it means that site it has quality for your directory, maybe is not an authority site but cartainly it has some quality...so why on earth your clients have to share the benefits you provide with other websites which you just listed for free? Who saiz that in a couple of years time your client's website won't become an authority or a really high quality site? Why not offer them something they paid for actually? Why not think at your clients first and offer them the best? If it's the case to share some juice why not let them do it? They are your clients and basically they keep your business going so I think they deserve the best... Uhhh...complicated...as I said both sides of the story may be true at some extent...really complicated, isn't it?