> To answer your question, yes adding nofollow to the links and then
> filing a reconsideration request is all that needs to be done, you
> don't need to delete the reviews or even the links, just make sure
> they don't pass PageRank.

> On Dec 14, 6:25 pm, natalie1981 wrote:

> > Hi. I'm new with all this SEO and pagerank so excuse me if my
> > questions seem dumb and naive. During the recent pagerank update, my
> > blog:http://natalie1981.blogspot.comincreasedfrom zero to four
> > which was a bit of a surprise for me since most websites dropped in
> > ranking due to what they call text link selling and I was a member of
> > payperpost and had some paid post on my site even before the update.

> > Just yesterday, I noticed that my pagerank dropped from four to zero.
> > Now I know that maybe Google has just noticed that I'm a member of
> > payperpost and they just recently noticed my paid posts and decided to
> > slap me with a penalty but I'm thinking of submitting my website for
> > reconsideration so I was wondering if I really need to remove the paid
> > posts or is it okay to just put the rel=nofollow tag? I don't want to
> > remove my paid posts since some of them brings traffic to my blog and
> > I've read that it's okay to have paid links just as long as it has the
> > nofollow tag, so is this true?

> > I also need help as to what other guidelines my blog may have violated
> > and how to fix this before I resubmit for reconsideration. I've read
> > the guidelines but I need some specifics so if anyone could help me I
> > would really appreciate it. Thanks.