What is “Do Follow”?
Do Follow is an action or a step a blogger initiates to remove the attribute rel=”nofollow” in its blog codes, either by installing a plug-in: Wordpress plugin or this Wordpress plugin, or manually for blogspot and for movable type. Most bloggers would refer to it as a campaign or a movement against rel=”nofollow”. The earliest initiator of the campaign is traced to Randa Clay who on her blog posted the now popular “U Comment, I Follow” design free for all to copy and place on their own blogs as long as the blog advocates Do Follow as well. (This site encourages submission of earlier campaigns to give proper and due credit.)
What is rel=”nofollow”?
rel=”nofollow” is a tag Google, Inc. formulated to prevent comment spams from being crawled by its search engine and is later on supported by other major search engines like Yahoo! and MSN search.
How does rel=”nofollow” work?
When a spammer leaves an unwanted comment on one’s blog like “Win an Apple I-pod”, “Get your free vacation packages now” or “Do you want to win 1 million dollars?” with a link to a website, the <rel=”nofollow”> tag ignores such link so that everytime a search engine updates its search ranking, that link is not included for relevance of a page. It is meant to punish spammers and hopes to deter abuse in posting unsolicited links to blog comments and any websites that accepts comments or trackbacks like guestbooks, visitor stats or referrer lists. © 2007
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January 26th, 2008 at 5:08 am
Great post. Thanks for info.
June 2nd, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Good post for newbies and every “follow” link you can get that is related to your niche does help.
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Good job on this initiative
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January 1st, 2009 at 10:51 pm
I too have recently removed the nofollow tags from my blog.
I’ve also modified Randa Clay’s original badge design for a 88*32 size. You can get the html code for the smaller badge at:
http://companiesactingbadly.blogspot.com/2009/01/you-comment-i-follow.html
February 13th, 2009 at 1:27 am
There are many uses for the rel=nofollow. There is nothing wrong with allowing a link to follow from your site. But if you have a common dynamic sidebar that houses your links, you might want to put a no follow in those. Not only will the multi-links not benefit you, they could hurt you in the search rankings.
February 14th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Nice, I think it could be interesting to add some more entries following this one, and probably it’s not only me having this opinion. Cheers!
April 21st, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Excellent article on describing what do follow is. I agree with Maddy Loftus though, and i also think there should be some more entries following this. I like the idea of having nofollow in links as it can be useful at times, but I can see why some people would want to remove it from their links on blogs etc.
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:39 am
Great post. Dofollow is important to get traffic to website or blog. It helps it to be placed at good SERPs.