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Right, yea I understand.  No, there's no View All, so I think it's fine.

Paginated Pages, page 2,3,4 etc.... they aren't supposed to have a PageRank, right?  If they are only linked to from themselves, only the original page, Page 1, is supposed to be showing PageRank?

I'm trying to double check that I am handling this right.  I'm not using canonical, or noindex or any of that... just using rel next and prev, which I thought would be fine.

Thoughts?

A page can have a link to it, and still not be indexed, so I disagree with you on that.

But thanks for using the domain name.  That will teach me to use a URL shortener...

Hm, that is interesting.  So you're saying that it will get crawled, and thus will eventually become deindexed (as noindex is part of the content="none" directive), but since it's a dead end page, it just takes an extra long time for that particular page to get crawled?

Ok, so, nofollow is stopping the page from being read at all?  I thought that nofollow just means the links on the page will not be followed.  Is meta nofollow essentially the same as blocking a page in robots.txt?

We have thousands of pages we're trying to have de-indexed in Google for months now.  They've all got . But they simply will not go away in the SERPs.

Here is just one example....

http://bitly.com/VutCFiIf you search this URL in Google, you will see that it is indexed, yet it's had  for many months.  This is just one example for thousands of pages, that will not get de-indexed.  Am I missing something here?  Does it have to do with using content="none" instead of content="noindex, follow"?

Any help is very much appreciated.

Yea, no one.  And even if it is a niche directory, you still have to be careful I think.  Just because someone took their General directory and decided to split it out into 50 "niche" directories doesn't means it all of a sudden holds value.

And I'm thinking the niche directories that have added real SEO benefit for me in the past, might not (to that extent) in the future.

So, since Google updated their link schemes page (http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66356) with avoid using "Low-quality directories", I've been thinking a lot about what makes a directory "low-quality".  Obviously, this is important, or Google wouldn't have mentioned it.

I was wondering if someone could explain to me how some of the directories suggested by SEOmoz at http://www.seomoz.org/directories are NOT low-quality, specifically some of the ones marked "General".

The page lists stuff like busybits.com, for instance. One that I guess many are aware of, and yea it has a high home page PageRank, and it's got some history, and it's human-edited, ok great.  But does it actually add any value to anyone that's not just looking to get a link? A page like http://busybits.com/Business/Others/2/ having (dofollow) listings like "Phone cards, Calling cards" "Insurance in Canada" .... ect. It just looks like an SEO backlink hub.  No value at all to a user trying to discover new sites/content.

Anyway, back to my main question, how is something like this NOT "low-quality"?

Thank you

So, since Google updated their link schemes page (http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66356) with avoid using "Low-quality directories", I've been thinking a lot about what makes a directory "low-quality".  Obviously, this is important, or Google wouldn't have mentioned it.

I was wondering if someone could explain to me how some of the directories suggested by SEOmoz at http://www.seomoz.org/directories are NOT low-quality, specifically some of the ones marked "General".

The page lists stuff like busybits.com, for instance. One that I guess many are aware of, and yea it has a high home page PageRank, and it's got some history, and it's human-edited, ok great.  But does it actually add any value to anyone that's not just looking to get a link? A page like http://busybits.com/Business/Others/2/ having (dofollow) listings like "Phone cards, Calling cards" "Insurance in Canada" .... ect. It just looks like an SEO backlink hub.  No value at all to a user trying to discover new sites/content.

Anyway, back to my main question, how is something like this NOT "low-quality"?

Thank you