MrStitch - 7:46 pm on Apr 20, 2007 (gmt 0)

K... I'll bite the bullet on this one.

My site tanked in the serps (well... #50something if you wanna know). I was in the top ten.

So, what I've just done was go through all the recips I had (all of which are on-topic sites), and placed no-follows on anyone that had a link partnership with an SEO firm or some kind of link swapping program (like link helpers, or whatever). For the most part, these partner sites are doing pretty good, and they had extremely few questionable links (extremely few, in comparison to the whole). However, I didn't add a nofollow to people that were 100% legit, and have nice sites.

I then placed, on some pages, a no-follow tag to the menu links that point to our companies affiliate program, and the faq.

I didn't take these steps on all pages of the site, just the core ones. I'll see what happens over the next couple of weeks.