Increase Your Search Engine Ranking With DoFollow
Be aware of the NoFollow tags. Those tags are added to the links in your visitors comments on your blog. This NoFollow tag is used as default in WordPress.
What is NoFollow then?
It’s a tag that tells search engines “not to follow” the link and therefore don’t give credibility to an outbound web page. This means that your readers do not get any credibility (and higher ranked in search engines) for their activity on your blog.
A win-win situation with DoFollow
Your readers should get the credibility when they add comments and value to your blog. It’s a win win situation. My advice is that you should install the plugin DoFollow for your WordPress blog. Link to DoFollow download.
What is the purpose with the NoFollow tag?
The NoFollow tag is a help for webmasters to stop spammers for making posts on blogs. The spammers will not get any advantages making links. The problem is that this will affect also links in comments from your valuable readers. The spammers also seems to not care about the NoFollow tag. They spam anyway. My conclusion is that the NoFollow tag is fairly useless.
Protect your blog from spam
Use approve the comments before they are displayed on your blog in the WordPress “Settings” area (choose “Discussion”). Then you have control over the spam and can delete those comments and those will never be displayed.
How do I know if a blog use the Nofollow tag?
When you are at a page with comments you can view the source code. Choose “View” and then “Source” in your browser toolbar. When the source is displayed you can make a search for “nofollow” in that document. If you do not find any nofollow tag in the comments text the blog appreciate its visitors and is collaborative.
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