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Great thanks again,

We get between 40 and 50+ per day and yes i take the time to weed out all the spam, which is almost always 1/3rd of submissions. quite time consuming. (a few hours a day)

Thanks EGOL!

I've put back the /news items as "noindex, follow" and as well as some internal links.
ps. All of our external links are nofollow.
pps. I had to put some disallow rules in our robots.txt to remove the news category and pages. I'm guessing i still have to keep those rules in place correct?

Last question... would you also keep pagination as "noindex, follow" or open it all up?

Hi! Quick question regarding UGC...

On our site - http://designrfix.com - we have a /news section (which contains about 40 000 news items) - shown in the right sidebar at the bottom

I recently changed the /news (and all subpages) section to noindex and asked a removal on Google Webmaster Tools...  was this a good idea? Those pages are low content pages and the bounce rate is really high since all articles are external sites.