Demand NoFollow Is Removed From Yellow Pages

[peter_d]

Heh heh. Wonder if this one will catch on with small business owners.

The article raises a good point about how nofollow could be used to effectively suppress an owners site being found, which favours the Yellow Pagess business model. Curiously, it would also make the YP directory fully Google compliant in terms of supposed paid links.

Perhaps its a devious way to drive small business owners to Adwords.

http://www.localseoguide.com/take-ba...o-to-nofollow/

If I were you and I advertised on one of these sites, I would call my sales rep and ask them why they are not linking to your site correctly and insist that they remove the NoFollow. I’d ask why they are impugning my reputation by using a LINK CONDOM on my BPP (and don’t forget to use the caps)? Then I’d ask how much money am I losing by not having a clean link and what percent of my ad spend with you does that equal? It’s not infeasible that 100% of the traffic to your BPP on these sites comes from SEO.