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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December 13th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
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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.
December 30th, 2007 at 4:48 am
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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
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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
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.
May 26th, 2008 at 5:25 am
It is better to be Nofollow for pr google I think
May 30th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
i think seo = backlinks
follow or nofollow does nt worth
November 19th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
I debated with myself whether to make my site dofollow or nofollow. I understand both sides of the argument. In the end I chose dofollow, because it encourages interaction, and just because there is an incentive to comment, doesn’t mean the comments won’t be worthwhile. Cheers.
December 18th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
I just made the switch to do follow on my blog so we will see how it goes. I want to encourage readers to make comments so it is a good incentive to use dofollow.
January 18th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
This site and post is all about “dofollow” yet all the comments are “nofollow” unless your in the “top 8 droppers”. I don’t get it…..
January 18th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Hi Jack: The comments are not nofollow when you make 3 comments. We have to protect ourselves from spammers regardless if we are do follow or not! we can’t approve all comments trying to use this site to create backlinks for themselves when they are only transient visitors. We are trying to establish loyalty to our readers, so they’d come back and leave more comments because they know they are going to get some linklove from us!
If you notice, most of the commenters here are only one time visitors! They comment and expect to get some permanent backlinks from us when they never come back to our site, how is that fair to our site when we never see them again?!
The Top 8 Droppers are for Entrecard users dropping on our site. Yes, they get a separate linkjuice from us! As for the Top 10 commenters, just leave us 3 more comments and you will see your name on the list. Thanks for stopping by.
January 25th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
I think thats a great idea to get some legit comments. I am a blogger user and would like to put do follow on my blog to get more comments, but I am afraid it will just attract more spammers.
January 27th, 2009 at 4:20 am
i will like to have do follow blogs..
why not providing some benefit to blogger who really post valuable comment?
February 19th, 2009 at 5:05 am
Yeah, legit comments deserve getting indexede and I see no reason why dofollow mustn’t be introduced. As for spam issues, they can be curbed by installing certain plugins.
March 14th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
I too am intrigued by the concept but am concerned that advertising the fact I am participating will attract spammers.
March 14th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Also, I do not get the difference between no follow and do follow – can someone explain it?
April 12th, 2009 at 6:27 am
DoFollow blogs invite more people to your blog, but also invite more spammers
April 25th, 2009 at 5:07 am
You got a nice blog. I also started one but I could find the ideas to posts everyday so I started posting famous quotes and sayings it is becoming quite popular. You might like to check it out.
Sorry for the self promotion
It would help if you can blogroll me…
Regards,
Daisy
April 25th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
I accidently stumbled across your blog but I liked it a lot. Keep up the good work.
April 25th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
I have installed the nofollow free plugin, too. I hope it will help to promote commenting
June 4th, 2009 at 11:59 am
Thanks for the tip, i’ll definitely install nofollow free plugin.
July 10th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
I appreciate when people enjoy sharing knowledge .Thanks for informations
August 10th, 2009 at 9:18 am
It’s great that more people are joining this movement. It encourages people to post comments on each other’s blogs which can only be a good thing!