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An interesting development Yaro. I think, as long as people keep comments relevant, and you don’t get any nutters, you should be fine.

Thanks for pointing out this plugin, it was just what I needed!

I’ve always hated rel=nofollow, and Wordpress’s use of it automatically for comments and trackback listings was one of the only things that bothered me about my recent move from Movable Type to Wordpress.

[…] Yaro from Entrepreneurs Journey has posted on this before and there’s even a protest site - No NoFollow on this issue. […]

I definitely agree with you. The nofollow tag is no good!

On my blog, I also installed a plug in by Denis de Bernardy to disable the nofollow tag.

I have many friends who also have installed similar plugins, but for those using Blogger, I don’t know if they have any options.

Do you know if it is possible to disable nofollow in Blogger?

The best way to stop spam would be to spend some time in moderating the comments persoanlly rather than relying on any captchas. You can go to the other extreme of not allowing anyone to comment - but then the whole essence of sharing information is lost. At least Yahoo and MSN rewards the commentators with relevant backlinks, so that is a reward which many spammers like to go for.

I just learned about nofollow tags, and what they are all about, I do agree with the no nofollow tags, especially because I am so new to this.
Brendan

I have removed nofollow from my blog, it doesn’t stop spammers and I don’t see why I should punnish non spammers who just want to comment on my blog.

Blog Promotion…

A little while ago I wrote an article on Self Promotion, but basically promotion yourself in our modern world stands equal with promoting a blog. Blogs are used by everyone, from stay-at-home-moms to top CEOs. Obviously, with milions of blogs out there…

I disagree with Tom, because I read an interview with a blog spammer, and he said captchas were one of his biggest obstacles. So I think that’s much more effective than nofollow, which if anything has further distorted search engine rankings by deterring legitimate people who use blog comments both to contribute and in hopes of generating backlinks from relevant sites, while it won’t deter the automated spammers from finding a new way to do it. I did not even realize nofollow was the default on one of my blogs until today, because we get so much spam on it. I am going to follow your lead and disable this tag, although I am curious if you have gotten more spam since you announced that you were removing nofollow.

Laura R.
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Great article ! Compliments from a Dutch guy Let there be linklove everywhere lol

Great post! I’ve been involved with niche blogging for quite some time and the issue of the rel=nofollow is a new problem I’ve beenjust informed about. Even though I post my own WP blogs on my own host I’m not quite sure if I am allowed to change this to follow. I will definitely be checking out sw’as to see whats up.
It is my understanding that the new beta blogger has the no follow as a default as well. And I was informed that it can be altered to follow.
This would explain why my blog is getting such high PR, while my site is not doing so well.
Hopefully I can change my blogs and start getting better PR and Traffic.
Thanks a ton!
Niche Blogging

Google is decreasing the value of the inbound links from blog sites. And if the topic is not equal to the topic of the site mentioned the value becomes very low. Owning a datingsite we know the only way to remain heving high value content is by monitoring the profiles manualy.

Yaro, removing nofollow is a great practice, I use the same plugin on my blog WordPress Guides and encourage my readers to add their links.

We did remove the nofollow a couple of months ago and saw an increase of comments and traffic. Sure there’s still spam but it’s in no case more than when we used the nofollow. We do approve the comments manually and if the content of the comment is related to the post we’re happy to give a link to the poster

I just removed nofollow from my blog’s comments too. But unlike you, I’ll leave all comments in there as long as they’re clearly relevant to the discussion. It doesn’t have to be ‘highly’ thoughtful
http://www.wptextads.com/blog/2007/08/22/this-blog-says-no-to-nofollow-in-comments/

To offer this plugin is a good move by Wordpress since now it gives users the option to actually contribute some of their Page Rank to their readers.

But looking at it at another angle if all blogs are ‘do followed’ by default, spammers would leave thousands of comments linking to some porn or gambling site, you wouldn’t want that trust me, i doubt u guys have been spammed this way or you’ll probably look at ‘no follow’ in a different way..

Yaro,

I know of Akismet, and it has stopped many a spam in the comments. Do you suggest any other plugins for spam prevention?

I myself have several blogs with do follow comments, i just moderate them to keep spammers away..

I was extremely happy when I learnt about dofollow plugins. I am very proud to say my blog is part of the dofollow revolution. I feels great rewarding commenters.

The best way to stop spam would be to spend some time in moderating the comments persoanlly rather than relying on any captchas. You can go to the other extreme of not allowing anyone to comment - but then the whole essence of sharing information is lost. At least Yahoo and MSN rewards the commentators with relevant backlinks, so that is a reward which many spammers like to go for.

Yaro,

I have noticed that links in your comments are “external nofollow”.Can you explain what that does for the search engines?

Yaro,

Thanks for the nice blog about making money on the internet.

On my WordPress blog I did install a plug-in (Dofollow) and have the small banner on the site that says “U-Comment I-Follow” so visitors see upfront that they will get the linkback.

No comment spam that I have seen.

I am new to blogging and came to this post from Yaro’s other post on backlinks. I came with the intention of learning what backlinks are and how they work. After reading both post’s and all the comments I am more confused now than when I started my search. I guess I’ll go and google backlinks and hopefully find an answer there. Does anyone know of any articles with simpler explanations (for dummies)?