Hi there, I went to business.com and found that they are using “nofollow†on most of the links. So you pay $199 year for a “nofollow†link. Cheers
Basically “nofollow†will invalidate the link and not give you PR. The link becomes worthless for ranking only good for traffic. It's not SEO Friendly.
well they just lost my 400$ which i was going to pay for a one year on two different sites! I've heard that yahoo doesnt pass any PR anymore either due it it not having a direct link.
i think if you pay them more you get a link that does provide PR. IMO, they will lose a lot of business if they continue with the no follow - I certainly will not be recommending submissions to them unless it is for traffic, not SEO!!
Damn, that really sucks. Someone should email them and ask them what's the deal and post there response here. (Some customer)
They seem to be picking and choosing which sites deserve the nofollow and which don't, possibly in an effort to bring in more revenue from sites wishing to get rid of the nofollow tag. Hopefully Business.com clears this up in a statement.
If I had paid $199 for a lisiting in a directory that went and put nofollow tags after I paid.. I would be pissed... fer shizzle. Sure enough, every single listing I found in the categories I checked all had nofollow condoms on. Real dirty.
Considering they are paid links, and everybody knows it, isn't Google discounting those links anyway? I was just going to submit a domain actually, for traffic reasons.
Exactly...Most people that submit to business.com don't care about PR...They can charge $199 because of the exposure a link there gets you. I don't think no follow's will hurt them in the least (nor should it)
Putting a nofollow on a link is disrespectful. It was intended for comment spam. It's not about the PR... hell most categories there only have a PR 2 anyways.. it's the point of the matter. What's the whole point of a nofollow link? It's a vote of "no confidence". Unless their a FFA directory (which they're not... they review submissions prior to them going live), then they should be a vote of confidence.
The sites I have in the b.com directory get quite a bit of traffic. So I don't care about the PR. The number of visitors they send me is worth the $$$ alone.
I agree with yfs1 and T0PS. What I don't understand is why business.com have bothered using nofollow on the links? Some people want links to pass PR and some people don't care so why risk pissing people off who want the PR? I reckon they are confused about the whole PR nofollow issue.