No Follow User Profiles?
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So our site has these user profiles and when they leave a comment on a page it links to the users profile. Now there is no way there is spamming with these profiles because they can't use outside links on them so I was wondering what peoples thoughts are of making these user profiles no follow.
I'm asking because some pages are coming back with 110 or more links on a single page because of the profiles so I was thinking of making the profiles no follow since I don't see them effecting too much of the site, but I was wondering what others thoughts were on this one.
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Yeah they are legit for now. I already told them to do the no-follow so I think it should be okay.
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Are they users leaving legitimate comments on your site? I don't see a problem with making the profiles no follow since they are probably less content-driven pages.
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Well just decided to do a nofollow. Let's see how it goes. If anyone has more opinions on this please share.
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