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Jason, did you even read my article? This isn’t about the traffic those autogenerated pages get, it’s about the fact that through the minuscule amounts of PageRank that they are each capable of grabbing, you are now able to rank your mediocre pages with absolutely zero influence from the rest of the web.

We’re not talking about stub pages, it’s all the fully automated bullshit that you are generating. They not only need to be deindexed, they need to be nofollowed or removed altogether.

How is it you are out there playing the wounded puppy when apparently you haven’t even read the articles or followed the reference links? You can’t just skim this one and then craft a rebuttal and think you’ve addressed the issue. There’s a lot of data in those paragraphs you apparently just skimmed over (if that even).

You have over 500,000 pages listed in your xml sitemap, and Google appears to have over 330,000 of them indexed. Click on this link, please, and actually go look at 10-12 of the pages we are talking about here:

http://tinyurl.com/yzmxq7b

Tell me how long it takes you, just by clicking through, to find even 3 pages that have any human interaction in them whatsoever.

Maybe, just maybe, you really don’t have a clue what is happening. I personally don’t believe that’s the case, but if so then whoever it is you have working for you that set this up knows how to spam like a pro.

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Now, I am not sure what school it is that teaches you to avoid answering any factual critiques of your actions by ignoring anything containing those facts you can’t refute and instead simply calling those who discuss them “haters”, but contrary to what you might think, it doesn’t make you look innocent. What it does is make you look quite a bit like a dishonest prick, truth be told.

We’re removing any page with less than 200 original words and we’re not going to let folks create short pages (we call them stubs) any more.

We’re not trying to spam anyone, and to be honest these pages are < 1% of our revenue and a very small % of our traffic (no idea to know how small, but very small… like single digets).

We're only interested in creating quality pages and if the SEO community or Google feels that these short pages are no appropriate to have we'll get rid of them. of course, Topix and Kosmix have tons of topic pages as well, so I'm not sure what the difference is beyond the fact that I called SEO "bullshit" at a conference six years ago.

Thanks to everyone for the words of support and to the haters… well… there is nothing I can say to change your mind so I guess… well… hate on!

best jason

Mahalo by the way means “gratitude” or “respect” – Wonder if this method of page creation meets the definition..?