No-Follow-Do-Follow

Posted on August 9, 2007
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After visiting Randa Clay’s blog, and her post about the “I Follow Movement”, I have decided to turn off the No-Follow function from my comments. So every time you make a comment here on my blog, you will get a do-follow link back. Here is what Randa has to say about it:

Almost all blog platforms by default are set up so that a “dead end” piece of code is inserted wherever there is a link in a comment, so that search engines will not “count” the link as they are crawling the internet. This was originally designed to help stop comment spam, but it doesn’t work. What it does is remove some of the incentive for your readers contribute to your site by commenting on your posts.
What can you do about it? Turn off “nofollow”. Show your commenters that you appreciate them. Spread the link love.

I think this makes sense, which is why I have decided to do the same. If you want to be in this as well, simply go to semiologic to download the do-follow plug-in, upload it to your WordPress plug-in folder, go into the WordPress control panel and activate it, under plug-in. That’s it. Give other bloggers more inbound links and get more comments on your blog. This has got to be a win-win situation.

Comments

7 Responses to “No-Follow-Do-Follow”

  1. Daniel Vukadinovic on August 10th, 2007 12:18 pm

    This is exactly what I was going to write about today on my blog and now I can’t :). Readers should be awarded and do-follow is exactly what every blogger should do. Unfortunatly Google doesn’t like this…another reason why you shouldn’t depend only on Google. Nice post.

  2. nicusor on August 20th, 2007 1:14 pm

    Hi,

    I’m keeping an updated Do Follow List on my site and since yours is do-follow as well, I want to ask you if you want to join my list too.
    There are over 250 websites featured here, so go on and start commenting on those appealing to you.

    Let me know!

    Thanks,
    Nick

  3. nicusor on August 20th, 2007 1:15 pm

    Oh, and I forget to mention that I also started a Link Directory with Do Follow categories.

    Cheers!

  4. Jakob Dupont Knudsen on August 20th, 2007 8:25 pm

    Nicusor,
    Sure I would love to be added. I just sent you an email.

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  6. bLuefRogX on November 27th, 2007 9:11 pm

    I don’t see why google shouldn’t like it though, its not paid or anything. THe only reason we had nofollow in the first place was to prevent spammers, but nowadays with improved antispam services like spam karma and akismet, this is a lot less of a worry than before.

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