Why I dofollow - say no to rel = no follow
I like links. I like to recieve links and being a generous so and so I’m happy to give them.
Links form the chain that holds the web together.
If someone goes to the trouble of including a link - within an article, a blog post, forum message or reply comment I expect it’s because they felt someone reading the piece might be interested. Maybe there’s an element of promotion to the link but that figures - adding a relevant link IS a vote of confidence. An irrelevant anchor text rich link will be ignored by most folk with half an ounze of gumption.
Why then is the insistance of rel=no follow become default on many “of the shelf” blogs?
To reduce spam - How so that be? The no follow relationship is invisible to viewers so they’re none the wiser as to if the link will be of value or not.
So the Pasty Muncher is please to announce that it welcomes comments from far and wide and they can be assured a dofollow link should they be included.
I first tried http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nofollow-free but it requires manual editing to remove the no follow - poor show.
Instead Rob - he of Brightscape tipped me off with sem-dofollow which adequately removes nofollow from wordpress blog comments. Simple and effective.
Welcome to the “Do Follow” movement.
Thanks for dropping by my blog.
Glad I could be of service Sir! You’ve added a fair bit of content since i pooped by last.
Thats a step in the right direction i think. I also made my blog dofollow. I see no reason not to since i recieve good comments then i want to share some love.
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Johan
I think that was a pretty good post. I couldn’t do it
. Keep up the good work.
Thanks! I’ve removed the rel=no follow in my blog. However, when I look at the page source it still show no follow I wonder why !
I really wish I could remove it off hosted WP blogs. I do have some self-hosted blogs and have the do follow plugin but I don’t actually actively seek out comments. I just believe in karma that’s all.
Really nice post. Good Site! Thanks you!
I love to blog and I also love to reward my readers for leaving comments in my blog too. That is why I also remove “nofollow” for my comments section too.
However, adversely, I receive too many spams such that at times I felt like turning it off.
How come people out there cannot properly read a blog post and leave his/her most honest opinions? Is it really that tough?
I think every blog should be do follow as standard. I swapped all of mine over because i think if people are willing to contribute then i dont mind giving them a link back. There are a lot of people who try to spam but i just spend a little time moderating the comments.
“Links hold the web together” - That’s a great point, I never thought about it that way. In my experience as long as you have akismet installed there is no need to worry about getting spam because it catches most of it. You can then sift through any of the comments it doesn’t catch and if the comment isn’t good just delete it.
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Thanks.
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If people make nice, polite and worthy coments, then there is no reason why they shouldnt be appproved.
its good to give followable attribute to the readers link for our own site, makes them to visit again and post comments(regular visitors)
I agree 100% I have written a number of posts about NoFollow, which is a principle I basically have a problem with. It tells the search engines that you are too lazy to moderate your own comments. When the search engines rank the blogs to serve to their searchers, surely NoFollow is one way for search engines to know which blogs NOT to rank highly.
Thanks! I’ve removed the rel=no follow in my blog. However, when I look at the page source it still show no follow I wonder why !
pasty muncher checks the http://www.watchmovietrailers.tv site - maybe you’ve not done it properly?
Thanks! I’ve removed the rel=no follow in my blog. However, when I look at the page source it still show no follow I wonder why !
pasty muncher checks the http://www.watchmovietrailers.tv site - maybe you’ve not done it properly?
Do follow in comments is the best thing ever. I am getting more visitors in my other blog and I am about to install a plugin in my new blog. I just want to make sure every comment is do follow.
nice writing on the dofollow. nice touch on the math verification cheers. DC
You know why the nofollow movement started?
1) Google thinks blogs are dirty junk and wanted a way not to have to crawl them as much.
2) The big blog companies (blogger, etc…) decided they wanted to keep the pagerank that all those millions of users so generously gave them during the happy dofollow times.
What shocks me the most is that people are fine with it. All those people who helped those blog sites become what they are today, just to have those sites give them nothing in return because of greed.
If you look at the most successful forums and blogs out there they are usually Dofollow. When people catch on that they have recently applied nofollow they will go elsewhere (they’d be silly to stay when someone else is offering a better service).
The good news is that as more people add nofollow, those who have dofollow increase their link value and there are oportunities for dofollow blogs and forums to thrive over the rest.
Rock the dofollow vote.
Hi,
I just wanted to let you know that we have a huge comprehensive Do Follow Blog and Forums lists that are broken down by categories for easy use however all comments left on the following page are nofollow
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lol
no follow blog comments
Thanks
Can’t say I’m drowning in traffic at the moment to make spammers a problem on my blog but I always think it’s nice to give people a dofollow link if they’ve taken the time to write something on your blog.
Then I let all the spam protection and the dirty great big ‘mark all as spam’ button take care of the rest.
That’s good news!
Its kind of funny that dofollow and nofollow links seem to be heading in opposite directions in terms of those who support them and those that don’t. I support dofollow and believe it to be a great way to interact with your visitors and believe it to be an honest approach to building relationships and visitors. Sites that invoke nofollow seem to be thinking about themselves. Its harsh but I feel that is the case. Just my 2 cents.
Thanks for having a nice attitude about links. I think it’s a very useful thing for a blog owner to enable dofollow.
I’m hopefully starting a blog in the next week or so and I will attempt to do it with dofollow.
I agree with what you say about NoFollow. I saw a video tonight that said you should DO nofollow to get links for page rank because they are the only links that help YOU! What’s the sense in it if your just out for yourself? Why bother blogging!
I also like Dofollow links. Nice post
I think post # 21 is some sort of spam. I’ve been to the site that is linked, and he seems like a nice enough guy. The way his URL is linked to “A TUCS.N Spammer”, and the way his other hotlink says “nofollow blog comments”, when in fact the list points to a free list of dofollow blogs, makes me think that someone is just trying to make bad links for him.