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Permalink Reply by SQR.fm on September 2, 2010 at 3:06am

Love an answer too. Im looking for best ways to up my google ranking, any other ideas?

Permalink Reply by JenSocial on September 2, 2010 at 3:15am

Hi SurferShot and SQR,fm!
I have been extremely verbal about this with Ning, many times, publicly and privately. I think it should be the Network Creator's option.

The nofollow wasn't in place when the link exchange program was started. I believe with all the new changes and the leaning more towards white label, Ning will eventually give us the option on nofollow.

Keeping our fingers crossed,
Jen

Permalink Reply by elsodev on September 2, 2010 at 4:21am

Hi Everyone ,

I think for now , only Ning apps can archive that . Hope some developers out there can do this . lol

Have a wonderful day ,
Elson.

Permalink Reply by JenSocial on September 2, 2010 at 12:38pm

Thanks, but not sure what you're referring to Elson. Ning simply needs to turn off the code that converts all external links to nofollow.
Read about nofollow here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...
Or at the least, give Network Creators the option of turning on/off.

Tip: Spammers drop links just to gain the backlinks. Nofollow discourages this activity. Which is great, but not optimal for some of our sites.

Best,
Jen