There has been a large push toward removing the NoFollow tags, given that software such as Akismet has been very effective in keeping out spammers, amongst many other reasons, that Loren Baker succinctly defines in this post. I have installed Semiologic’s DoFollow Plugin for Wordpress. In support of my readers and commenter’s, this blog now provides link credit to any commentors publishing legitimate comments. If I discover any abuse, those commenter’s will be barred from using their URL’s!
For those of you without too much SEO background, a few years ago there was a large spate of comment spam in an effort by Search Engine Marketing (unethical ones, at least) to artificially increase their Search Engine rankings by using automated systems to spray comments across thousands of blogs. Google and other search engines used to look at these incoming links as being a vote of confidence or link credibility for the site in question. This caused havoc in the blogosphere! Since then, the search engines agreed to implement a way of providing the opportunity to link to a website, but not allow credibility to be transferred across, denoted by a
Wordpress (the software used for this blog) installed this by default, but for the reasons described in Loren’s blog post, I have decided to remove this tag from the site and all legitimate comments will count as a link back to the website of any author.
I reserve the right to deactivate this feature if abuse becomes prevalent! Happy Commenting!
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March 12, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Good stuff Vinny. Definitely the right move…
March 12, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Good stuff Vinny. Definitely the right move…
March 14, 2007 at 11:56 am
The No Follow attribute has been a great way of combating blog link spams, but Vinny I think it’s a good move from you in restoring the true purpose of link popularity.
March 14, 2007 at 1:56 pm
The No Follow attribute has been a great way of combating blog link spams, but Vinny I think it’s a good move from you in restoring the true purpose of link popularity.
March 15, 2007 at 4:24 pm
I have watched this trend as well, and while I agree the implementation of the no-follow attribute was an effective measure at combating blog spam which is tarnishing user experience, I think it really did degrade the interactivity of the blogosphere. Kudos to you Vinny!
March 15, 2007 at 6:24 pm
I have watched this trend as well, and while I agree the implementation of the no-follow attribute was an effective measure at combating blog spam which is tarnishing user experience, I think it really did degrade the interactivity of the blogosphere. Kudos to you Vinny!
March 26, 2007 at 7:03 am
Its is necessary to stop spam, but on the other way people now crawl less.. mean low traffic..
March 26, 2007 at 9:03 am
Its is necessary to stop spam, but on the other way people now crawl less.. mean low traffic..
September 18, 2007 at 4:34 pm
In all my blog i have install dofollow plugin.
to combact spam i use akismet
September 18, 2007 at 6:34 pm
In all my blog i have install dofollow plugin.
to combact spam i use akismet
September 28, 2007 at 7:08 am
Its ironic that many bloggers talk about this but then they actually use no follow.
September 28, 2007 at 9:08 am
Its ironic that many bloggers talk about this but then they actually use no follow.
January 27, 2008 at 6:19 am
I just finished commenting on Gordon Choi’s Blog about this, and I’m going to do the same here. If I make a contribution in some way, I deserve the credit for doing such. It should be left up to Blog owners to Mod there own property, not some unseen hand in the sky somewhere. I am always on the look out for Blogs, Forums, or something useful that is related to SEO…it’s what I do. I offer SEO Services and free information and if I help someone pro bono or even if I learn something from someone else I pass credit as such. If you visit my site, you will see that I chose to install a forum, instead of a blog (I wanted to put in a blog) because I could control what MY forum chooses to do.
January 27, 2008 at 8:19 am
I just finished commenting on Gordon Choi’s Blog about this, and I’m going to do the same here. If I make a contribution in some way, I deserve the credit for doing such. It should be left up to Blog owners to Mod there own property, not some unseen hand in the sky somewhere. I am always on the look out for Blogs, Forums, or something useful that is related to SEO…it’s what I do. I offer SEO Services and free information and if I help someone pro bono or even if I learn something from someone else I pass credit as such. If you visit my site, you will see that I chose to install a forum, instead of a blog (I wanted to put in a blog) because I could control what MY forum chooses to do.
October 7, 2008 at 5:08 am
I like to use nofollow on the couple of blogs that I run, I feel that if someone can take the time to think of a useful comment to type, then it's only fair they get some form of credit,
Askimet is amazing too, very useful at keeping away the spamlinks! Blogs should be about creating an interconnected web of useful links anyway, with good, relevant content.
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