someone actually posted on another forum.... If all webmasters decided to block Googlebot from their sites.... Google wouldn't actually have a search! I think organising a mass revolt would be kinda tricky, there is always a lot of people waiting in the wings to try and utilise what is left. I think this is what Google relies on. Everytime something goes, there are 10 more to replace it. (a bit like kicking someone off of adsense) It's all supplemental anyway, never did figure out this SEO thing as I am too honest to bullshit the SE's with irrelevent meta description tags. I won't delay removing adsense from my sites if Yahoo gets YPN to the UK. What have you done?
Google won't do anything. Why? Because other than people like us, nobody really cares or even knows what Google thinks their sites should behave like. For this to work, Google would have to ban 90% of the web(well, the web that matters).
Ugh, again Google is clamping down on advertising links in general. They are going after paid links that pass page rank. Bad news for paid directories, but good news for free directories (and yes those exist too).
The revolt is already working! See... http://www.google.com/logos/earthday07.gif They are melting away already
We cant hide from the supplemental nightmare. What have I done? Bugger all as I am not the one calling the boycott here. Plus, I don't buy links so it doesn't affect my sites....although I do sell the odd one for *cough* traffic.
Yes all of you remove you sites from the index please. I promise I will follow you . I promise I won't stick around and enjoy all the extra traffic that you will leave behind. I actually wouldn't mind if everyone used Yahoo for search, because my rankings are even better there.
No need to boycott or de-index your site, If EVERYBODY changed ALL their links to no-follow: *No more paid links problem for G. *SE's would have to rank sites based on content (good/bad/ugly/spammy) *All the sites that got fat and happy based on years-old-links would have to re-prove themselves. Of course this will never happen. And if it did, the SE's would change no-follow tag to a no-effect tag.