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| − | A few visitors, however, try to use our site in ways that aren’t constructive. Some, for example, try to use the AboutUs page about their website to launder links. This means they spread the link to the AboutUs page all over the web through comment spam | + | AboutUs.org is a [[WikiWiki|wiki]]. Every day, thousands of people visit our site, and a large number contribute to the pages here, adding their knowledge about specific websites and topics they care about. We encourage people to improve the pages about their own websites, or websites they’re familiar with, adding links to those websites. This helps our visitors discover sites that could be valuable to them, and easily navigate to those sites from AboutUs. |
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| + | A few visitors, however, try to use our site in ways that aren’t constructive. Some, for example, try to use the AboutUs page about their website to launder links. This means they spread the link to the AboutUs page all over the web through [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_in_blogs comment spam], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow#Paid_links paid links] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow#Paid_links link farms] – all with the intent of having the spam links point to the AboutUs page, instead of to their own website. | ||
==Why would someone launder links?== | ==Why would someone launder links?== | ||
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Sometimes naïve or unscrupulous marketers add links to their own websites – or their clients’ websites – to hundreds of unrelated AboutUs pages in a misguided attempt to generate more traffic directly to websites. We promptly remove these links from our pages, and we ban the people who placed them from making any further edits to AboutUs pages. | Sometimes naïve or unscrupulous marketers add links to their own websites – or their clients’ websites – to hundreds of unrelated AboutUs pages in a misguided attempt to generate more traffic directly to websites. We promptly remove these links from our pages, and we ban the people who placed them from making any further edits to AboutUs pages. | ||
| − | We have a [[NoFollow policy]] for these links, so there is no value in creating them. | + | We have a [[NoFollow|NoFollow policy]] for these links, so there is no value in creating them. |
==Reinclusion== | ==Reinclusion== | ||
| − | If you feel you’ve been the victim of a black hat | + | If you feel you’ve been the victim of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hat_SEO black hat SEO] (search engine optimization) agency that’s used AboutUs inappropriately to generate traffic to your website, let us know by sending an email to <email>7337736a85f65b24f7ddb61ffb1e6e2a</email>. We’ll evaluate the activity we’ve seen and reconsider your situation. |
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| + | ==Other pages that are not indexed== | ||
| + | AboutUs has other types of pages that are not exposed to search engines. [[TemplatePages]] that have little content are not exposed until they have enough information on them to be useful, whether that information is added by us or by a member of our community. | ||
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Latest revision as of 17:48, 18 May 2010