No nofollow in paid communities

[alex_mashin]

Title
No nofollow in paid communities

Short, concise description of the idea
Do not add rel="nofollow" attribute to hyperlinks in posts in paid communities

Full description of the ideaIt is suggested that rel="nofollow" attribute is no added to hyperlinks in posts in paid communities, whether or not the poster is a paid account

Comments

[azurelunatic]

Assuming a spammer doesn't buy a paid comm for the purposes of spamming, sounds reasonable to me.

[pauamma]

Hmm. Shouldn't that be controlled by the "minimize search engine exposure" option?

[azurelunatic]

I don't think so. If I understand this correctly, the "minimize search engine exposure" makes it less likely for search engines to get to the entries at all, whereas this is about the outbound(?) links inside the entries.

[pauamma]

Oh. For some reason, I thought the suggestion was about inbound links.

[polyfrog]

"It can be assumed that the owners and supervisors of paid communities are motivated enough to keep their communities clean of SEO spam, since they have paid for them."

Pretty sure this assumption is invalid.