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Trouble at SEOChat Forums

There has just been a masive upset over at SEOchat.com forums. Many long time members and some moderators have either left, or threatened to leave the forums.

It was all started by this:

New changes including no follows to signatures

We have recently made some very SEO significant changes to our forums including modified URLS, reducing HTML sizes of all pages, and reducing external links by using no follows on many of our own internal links as well as signatures. We have made these changes to our other forums and have had great success traffic wise with these changes. We understand that by doing this, some people who count on using signatures as a way to increase their own page rank are upset by this. While this is a unfortunate byproduct of us removing no follows, we have done so as we wish to grow SEO chat so it may continue to be a force in the SEO community. We hope that you will forgive this inconvienience and continue to use SEO chat for the knowledge it imparts and the relationships that are forged here.

J

I really don’t think it was the fact that they added nofollow tags to signature links, as much as was the way they treated members. At least 3 members were banned for even expressing their opinions about the matter. Even in the suggestions and feedback forum, you won’t find one post about the incident, because they are all getting deleted as soon as they are posted.

Earlier this week, two senior members were chastised for expressing their opinions on the forums. That along with today’s actions by the administrators will probably prove to be “too much” for many of the long time members.

It is truly a sad day. It looks like the SEOChat forums may never be the same again.

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