Comments on: No More NoFollow

By: Terje Sannarnes

Terje Sannarnes — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:28:23 +0000

I would like to say that all links (both do and no follow) generate targeted traffic to a website. So, that’s why it is expedient to comment do and no follow topic related blogs. But, an entrepreneur should be mainly concentrated on do-follow links.

By: Louise Mandar

Louise Mandar — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 19:00:54 +0000

Hi Yaro,
It think it’s a great idea to let fellow bloggers know that their contribution (by leaving a comment) to your blog is appreciated. Getting rid of the nofollow attribute is a way to do that. Sharing the ‘wealth’ and creating cooperation!

As to nofollow links stopping bloggers from getting the ranking benefits and such, there seems to be experiments lately that indicate the opposite. Here’s a link that I have no ties with…not trying to get any link juice. Just adding to the discussion:
http://www.socialseo.com/blog/an-experiment-nofollow-links-do-pass-value-and-rankings-in-google.html

These guys ran a 4 week test on 2 domains and measured rankings based on nofollow links pointing to those domains. Check-out their results.

Whatever the results, I still think using the nofollow plugin and letting fellow bloggers know of it is a good way to build peer relationships and contribute to a cooperative and quality internet environment.

Thanks for the great plugin suggestion
Louise

By: Sarah Cowan Design

Sarah Cowan Design — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:42:25 +0000

Thanks Yaro,

I’m in agreement. Do you have any advice with regards to flickr? I have some high PR pages in my account and they crop up nofollow with every link? I am happy to share the wealth. I think Flickr should allow some sort of control over this, if you are the owner of the account.

By: USMLE Prep Courses

USMLE Prep Courses — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 21:50:23 +0000

Frits above mentions that if you don’t comment on a blog post that is relevant to the backlink created by commenting that Google gives it little to no value, but I’ve heard and read over and over that this simply isn’t true. Does anybody with a TON of experience in this area know for sure whether or not this is true. It seems to be a bit odd that just because the blog you commented on isn’t within your own niche that it holds no value, especially when it is a valuable comment within the community. I have a wide range of interests, so I am always commenting within many niches and areas of interest, and while I don’t do it just for backlinks, of course it is a nice reward for adding value to someone else’s blog.

Does anybody have any real information about this? Thanks, Jeff

By: Misbah Mumtaz

Misbah Mumtaz — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 06:50:55 +0000

what a nice post.

Thanks
Misbah Mumtaz

By: Tiffany C.

Tiffany C. — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:22:32 +0000

Thanks for this info.

Going to install the “DoFollow” plugin right now =)

By: Moses

Moses — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 20:22:23 +0000

Thanks a lot for this great tip. It’s really helpful. I know one thing that’s if you know it, you know it and if you don’t know it, you don’t know it. Knowledge is all we need. I can see the great impact of this tip.

By: Jules

Jules — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 22:59:27 +0000

Unaware of the default setting of ‘no follow’ of WordPress it was on that setting on a blog of mine for a couple of years. This blog gets ‘hammered’ by spammers so it didn’t seem to work as a deterrant. I now use the Thesis skin and it offers choices by simply checking/unchecking a box. Easy!

Thanks for the ‘love’ Yaro

By: Tony The Alarm Guy

Tony The Alarm Guy — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:28:31 +0000

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.

By: Ram Ramirez

Ram Ramirez — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:57:36 +0000

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

By: Francesco

Francesco — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:11:48 +0000

Great tip Yaro, I’ve installed the Do Follow plug-in. Do you know if it works for the old comments too? I’ve installed it but watching the Html of the older comments, it still appears the default rel=nofollow

Thank you!

Francesco

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Wed, 26 May 2010 20:17:45 +0000

I have read about trackbacks and pingbacks and nofollow quite a bit but your post on spreading the love explained it in a very lucid manner.I think i understand it much more clearly now.

By: Lori Robertson

Lori Robertson — Fri, 21 May 2010 19:03:08 +0000

I never understood what dofollow meant and you have explained it wonderfully so that now I do. Thanks so much for this valuable post.

Lori

By: Joe-Chip

Joe-Chip — Fri, 07 May 2010 16:02:44 +0000

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

By: Mr Part Series

Mr Part Series — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:01:13 +0000

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.

By: MikeHID

MikeHID — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:08:27 +0000

Yaro,

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

By: baby

baby — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:47:09 +0000

Yaro,
I think “nofollow” is needed at some places, for example flickr PR:9 and if everyone opens an account or even many accounts with his blog/website, then that person will have good google ranking who opens as much accounts as possible
But thank you for giving this information about how to do a trackback in wordpress

By: Diane Rustand

Diane Rustand — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:21:21 +0000

Yaro, thank you so much for this information. I wasn’t sure how to do a trackback. You have made a trackback more understandable by a new blogger, who has followed your “blueprint” to the letter. I will try a trackback to you very soon.
Diane

By: Nigel Coates

Nigel Coates — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:29:05 +0000

Amazing Yarro, The date of the first comment to this article is August 23 2005. I received the email this morning, realised its relevance and clicked thru to read more. 4 Years old – and still a good trick! Wonderful.

By: Donn

Donn — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:43:30 +0000

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

By: Nicole Mickle

Nicole Mickle — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:07:36 +0000

Thanks Yaro for this article.

I just want to thank you for the information and articles you provide. I am a beginner to the social media/blogging world and your articles are easy to understand and EXTREMELY useful.

I need all the help with the use of WordPress plugins.

I am interested in when your next class will be given?

Thanks again,
Nicole

By: Volksphone

Volksphone — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:32:38 +0000

I am using the plugin Dofollow Case by Case because many spam bloggers in Germany setup nofollow trackbacks to get backlinks ( This plugin allows me to mark it by myself as follow or nofollow

Cheers,
Volksphone!

By: Ely

Ely — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:44:33 +0000

I was long time supporter of no-follow tag until I discovered reCaptcha. It seems to work real well against the robots, which was the biggest concern which gave the life to no-follow tag. And I agree, human comments should be moderated by humans. It’s not easy though.

By: Free Work From Home Jobs

Free Work From Home Jobs — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:38:21 +0000

I’m curious…with more and more blogs changing to DoFollow, when will the search engines think of this as spam? I suppose if one posts blog comments with informative tips or info. then there should be no problem, but it seems the search engines – at least the big one(s) tend to “catch up”.

By: Media Influence

Media Influence — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:38:35 +0000

that is very generous of you Yaro.

the nofollow has always been a hot topic of discussion since it’s original purpose has long been throw out as many SEOers try to utilize it to sculpt their SEO juice.

There has been lot of talks especially since Matt Cutts talked about the nofollow about a month or two ago and how Google has been devaluing it’s use.

By: Edward C Dumchus

Edward C Dumchus — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:45:41 +0000

Hello Yaro and everyone,
I was unaware that wordpress default was no follow, also. I will try adding the plugin to one of my blogs, and see how it goes.
I do get mostly comment spam, comments like “great post, man” and such, that don’t give the slightest indication that they have even read any of my posts, so I am a little concerned about that increasing.
Any feedback from anyone that has changed to do follow? Has your comment spam increased?

By: Franck Silvestre

Franck Silvestre — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:08:30 +0000

All my blogs are do follow. I believe in linking out to others as long as it is relevant and beneficial to my readers.

By: John Gregory

John Gregory — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:30:12 +0000

Thanks Yaro !

I have been wondering how the “No Follow” system worked ever since I launched my blog over 2 years ago and today you have cleared it up for me… Thanks Mate

By: real estate

real estate — Sat, 30 May 2009 09:26:48 +0000

You know Yaro, like others I had no idea that the default setting in wp is no follow.

I have about 100 blogs with high PR on several ips and have only lately realised that the link juice I’ve been giving myself and others has been severely watered down.

WP coders should make this apparent and build in a means to choose as a default value,whether you wish your blog to be follow or no follow.

I switched all my xsitepro sites to wordpress because the xsite pro sites were turning up as no follows also, despite having settings that supposedly made them do follow. Then I found that WP was the same.

Yaro,thanks for disseminating this info, I’m sure most bloggers don’t realise this.

Andrew
Coffs Harbour

By: sleep disorder

sleep disorder — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:58:04 +0000

Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.