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November 3rd, 2007 at 9:08 pm

I DoFollow

Email, Rate, Bookmark This

No Nofollow
I Follow

Completely avoiding the double entendres that could be drawn out of being a blogger that Does Follow; I have now decided to open all comments on this blog to let their url’s not be shielded by a "link condom".  I really like the idea of people commenting on my blog and encourage anyone to do so.  To enable this I have not put any measures to prevent people posting, save akismet which has caught over 3,000 spam posts in three months.

I have decided to remove the "nofollow" that is automatically added to posts by wordpress.  If you are unfamiliar this is a property that is added to a link that tells a search engine not to give any credence to the links within.  This is supposedly to combat more spam and I feel that it is cheating the system.  There are many different people who have done research saying that these links are still taken into account and the amount of spam since this has been implemented has only increased.

I feel that this means that sites that should be recognized because of their quality are not being indexed and spammers are being rewarded.  If you have a comment on my blog - any links will be picked up by searches and recognized accordingly.

I could go into this in more detail but there are some excellent resources online mentioning what nofollow means and the damage it is doing; please see the sites below;

I encourage you if you have your own blog to do the right thing and make sure your links can be followed. 

If you want to comment on my blog in the future, please review my new Comment Policy

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27 Comments »

Comment by Gizmo
2007-11-04 14:00:59

All 3 of my blogs are do follow

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Comment by snippets
2007-11-05 02:07:37

my blog’s do follow, too …
regarding the picture (my food friday), it was just breadstick with some cheesy sauce over it. :)

thanks for dropping by! :)

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2008-12-13 14:26:55

Oh geez that’s making me hungry!

 
 
Comment by Gaje Master
2007-11-06 12:20:52

I also follow comments that are left on my blog. I wanted to give back to the people who enjoy and comment on my blog so what better way than to give them a little link love.

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Comment by Andrew Bell
2007-11-06 13:15:31

Gaje Master, I tend to agree - I think that you lose the social aspect if people don’t see any points in commenting

 
 
Comment by bLuefRogX
2007-11-20 15:34:22

This is supposedly to combat more spam and I feel that it is cheating the system. There are many different people who have done research saying that these links are still taken into account and the amount of spam since this has been implemented has only increased.

The amount of spam may increase but at the very least search engines are not taking those into account as backlinks, therefore making it harder for them to get ranked (or PageRanked). As with anything, dofollow is a double edged sword. You’d definitely get more comments, but also a lot more inane comments like ‘nice blog’ or ‘Good job’ etc etc….

Of course, I’m still new to the bloggin scene so this is just my two cents.

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Comment by Andrew Bell
2007-11-20 15:37:19

Actually, since going DoFollow I have had less spam postings (and no “nice blog”) since I implemented it, however, this may just be because I have been posting less because I have had to study for exams.

 
 
Comment by David Rader
2008-01-10 02:51:59

People take the time to comment on our blogs… Why should people try to make them seem as though they don’t exist to search engines? Doesn’t make much sense to me as long as someone moderates the comments.

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Comment by Mark
2008-02-22 01:25:16

I think there are a lot of mixed thoughts on “do follow” “no follow” blogging and we certainly might see Google changing its algo on this in the near future to prevent spam posts let`s see.

Thanks.

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Comment by Ismail Shihadi
2008-04-14 16:13:25

Doesnt activating dofollow on your website hurt your pagerank ?? more external links are supposed to harm you PR
anyways dofollow is a great way of getting people to comment so goodluck ;)

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Comment by Digital SLR Joe
2008-04-25 07:22:38

Pretty good article. I like it, keep it up.

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Comment by Tom Lamothe
2008-05-01 05:28:21

I think that was a pretty good post. I couldn’t do it :D . Keep up the good work.

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Comment by David Wh1te
2008-05-02 03:59:43

hmmm… I like a blog post that makes me think.

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Comment by Aftanga
2008-09-22 17:28:07

People take the time to comment on our blogs… Why should people try to make them seem as though they don’t exist to search engines? Doesn’t make much sense to me as long as someone moderates the comments.

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Comment by law
2008-09-30 09:04:41

Made props to you sir for making the blog dofollow. Also Akismet might be the best wordpress plugin of all time, it has blocked some 800 odd spam comments for me.

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Comment by Sohbet
2008-10-09 07:14:35

thanks

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Comment by Очкарик
2008-12-06 05:09:19

Задумался над вопросом. Киньте ссылку где я могу добыть информации по этому вопросу.

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Comment by OC
2008-12-13 14:25:13

Much props here. I can’t stand the whole idea of a nofollow tag, but on the same note, spammers suck.

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Comment by emo resimleri
2008-12-17 11:32:52

thanx for text

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Comment by |earning online|
2009-01-12 14:59:08

One of the nonsense thing is that some blogger list their blog in dofollow directory/list.while have their nofollow tag on…Anyway.Hey,,, you have a great blog here!

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2009-04-02 23:01:13

Is this an effective way to bring traffic? I’ve been resisting doing this but I am looking for ways to generate traffic.

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2009-04-04 04:52:56

The idea here is to comment more intelligently without the impression of spamming. We all use this as a way to increase traffic to your website.
But use it in fair play.

Thanks,

Jimi P.

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Comment by Giacomo
2009-05-01 12:04:02

This was highly informative :) Many thanks to the poster.

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Comment by Red84
2009-10-22 23:35:50

Mother Jones missed the point, of course, seeing social media as an extension of broadcast. ,

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Comment by Roy37
2009-10-23 09:33:11

Not only do you want to make sure that they are ready for the instruction, but you must also determine if they already have some of the skills you have identified for instruction. ,

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Comment by Loy97
2009-10-23 21:58:27

European Patent Office and by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. ,

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Comment by satrap
2009-11-15 18:31:56

Thank you so much for writing this great article. i enjoyed reading it. it will certainly add to my limited info, and help me do better with my blog everything related to it. thanks again.

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