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This from the comments of Christ Knight's article on EZA blog

Chris,

Can you explain what you mean in the second to last bullet about the no-follow attribute? Does this mean that the links in the author bio won’t be noted by Google and therefore won’t help with search engine ranking?

If so, I’m wondering why you would make that change. Those links are a major reason why many of us choose to publish articles here.

Christopher M. Knight writes:

Susan,

My gut feeling is that those links have carried no real value in at least 2-3 years now.

And in another comment, Christ knight says

Without the search engines trusting us and our members’ content, there is not much else to talk about since the search engines represent an important HALF of our traffic.

I would have guessed 80-90%

thesaint in your post February 27, 2011, 06:49:27 PM you quoted your previous post stating that you were taking adsense off then you said you had noticed the jump after taking no action.  Not sure what you mean.  Did you take the adsense off or did you get the jump with the adsense still on?

ergophobe: 

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I would have guessed 80-90%

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Sorry.  I got the jump with adsense still on the sites.

I had a good laugh when I read what they were saying about not allowing spun articles (and suggesting they hand review to stop it) - then saw the first 3 articles on their homepage were clearly spun!

Mahalo Reduces Headcount by 10% After Google Algo Change

It’s hard not to be disappointed since we’ve been spending millions of dollars on producing highly professional content.

Jason told me numerous times he didn’t care about Google because he was going to build loyal users who would just come directly to Mahalo

Read more: http://www.centernetworks.com/mahalo-reduces-headcount-google-algo-change#ixzz1FQjDCECq

>Demand Media: "at this point in time, we haven’t seen a material net impact on our Content & Media business."

" by mid-April, with the full suite of Panda updates in place, Demand was feeling the pain. As of April 16, it accounted for only 0.34 percent of Google’s downstream, a 40 percent decline from the start of 2011.

Some individual Demand sites are doing even worse than that, with Answerbag, a questions-and-answers site, being the hardest hit. Its Google referrals are down 80 percent. Meanwhile, eHow, Demand’s largest and most important site by far, is down 29 percent; it now accounts for 0.29 percent of Google’s downstream."

"Other content farms have taken it on the chin as well. Mahalo’s Google traffic is down 78 percent, Associate Content’s is down 61 percent and Examiner.com is down 51 percent."

http://blogs.forbes.com/jeffbercovici/2011/04/25/google-traffic-to-demand-media-sites-down-40-percent/