How does rel=”nofollow” impact my blog?

How does rel=nofollow impact my blog?

When Google Inc. spearheaded the fight against comment spams in 2005, it received immediate and wide acceptance from different websites, especially from bloggers who were sick and tired of deleting spam after spam after spam of useless comments on their blogs.

It is meant to solve a major drawback to receiving comment spams, by discouraging spammers from leaving a comment because search engines will ignore the link anyway.

In so doing however, it also discourages readers from commenting because they too are being ignored by search engines! It thus creates a dead link between a blogger and its readers who leave legitimate comments to the site. This ‘flaw’ takes away the camaraderie and sense of community between bloggers and readers as the rel=”nofollow” tag takes away any incentive of commenting to a post. © 2007

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Simone's Butterfly (Check me out) Says:
December 18th, 2007 at 8:18 am
I have removed the rel=nofollow from my template again.
I only found one. I don’t see anything on my comments page.
Help.
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December 30th, 2007 at 4:48 am
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Miley Cyrus Fan (Check me out) Says:
March 30th, 2008 at 8:27 am
Yeah, this sucks although I’ve been reading on some forums that people think nofollow still has a weight just not as much as the dofollow links.

I don’t know about the truth in that I just wish it was true :P.
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John Illnes (Check me out) Says:
April 10th, 2008 at 3:12 am
The official claim is that links with the rel=nofollow attribute do not influence the search engine rankings of the target page. In addition to Google, Yahoo and MSN also support the rel=nofollow attribute.

i think it helps indexing
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mmo (Check me out) Says:
April 30th, 2008 at 3:30 am
I don’t really agree with no follow so the do follow movement is a great way to say all comments or ideas are equal vs arbitrarily giving weight to some and not others.
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sohli.com (Check me out) Says:
May 26th, 2008 at 5:25 am
It is better to be Nofollow for pr google I think
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graphiste (Check me out) Says:
May 30th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
i think seo = backlinks
follow or nofollow does nt worth
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