Hey, google, screw nofollow what about noshow?

Alright, let me explain the topic. When you move past the development stage and in to marketing your website then you're probably going to be spending lots of time in Google Webmaster Tools, querying all 3 engines [Google,Yahoo,MSN], and I'd encourage one to also browse around a bit one one of the better webmaster forums [ie, webmasterworld or a good SEO blog], but anyways I'm finding more and more the SERPS being cluttered with garbage, and I have no way of turning it off. I'll explain a bit better.

Lets take AboutUs.org, oh man how they love to profit from your site and not give you jack shit in return. nofollow annoyance I want to block all these little "to help us" sites who are really "just making money off people who can't do anything about it".

First off, I already have an about page on every website I run, most do. Secondly, if you're going to build your entire linkbase off other peoples work atleast give them some of the PR you've basically stolen from generating links to their urls without their consent.

I've debated actually using this to my advantage, and a lot do, but when you're searching for "widget" and your widget page is actually "widget.com" your serps are littered with SEO snooping tool and domain info tools and stuff almost all of which, while they feel the need to allow public links to queries [ie domain.com/site.com], often use the nofollow attribute on their href links. Yet, they have no problems making money off the people who click those links out of the engines whether they know what the page is for or not.

This is really annoying too if you have a website in which a lot of people try to copy how you got high in rankings. Alexa.com is another annoying website. Google should give us the option to block all serps from domain/sites of our choice so I can disable any and all links to these type of sites from showing up.

Let me also ask the question: what is the point of nofollow?. I'm not being technical as I obiously understand the point, but do people still somehow think PageRank matters much? because if you're any good at SEO you know it's not too big of an influence these days. It's not hard to be top #5 SERPS with PR 2 while beating out PR 4-8s. I do it all the time and rely on it to make a living, and I can tell you that while backlinks are nice you only need 2 or 3 to be top in the serps, so again, nofollow not bleeding pr doesn't matter which is why it makes no sense.

I don't even want to get in to sites supposedly intended to help webmasters like directories and such utilizing nofollow, but if you are still obsessed about PageRank, ecspecially the inaccurate and always 3+ month outdated one displayed in the Toolbar, then you need to get over it.

I'm sure this post makes me come off as one of those PR obsessed webmasters, but I swear I'm not. I used to be, but luckily those days are over. Now if you'll excuse me I need to go sort through more littered with crap serps.