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.
Hi Ali!
Merry Christmas and a Happy Prosperous New Year!
I would like to also mention that along with the DoFollow add-on, to also use it in tandem the CommentLuv add-on to help backlink people who comment on your site.
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Hi Erwin
thanks for adding this information. I will check the CommentLuv and also install it. It sounds good.
Thanks for the Merry Christmas and Prosperous New Year you’re bringing for us. I wish you the same doubled merryness and prosperousness.
/Ali
I too have no evidence that spammers are less likely to respect nofollow than a “dofollow”. I would imagine that this is because they use automatic commenting software that adds comments here, there and everywhere without respect to any microformat.
Sometimes what happens though is that a blog owner goes “dofollow”, then they find that their blog is added to lists on forums such as Digital Point.
They then receive a number of manually submitted posts that are only concerned with a backlink. At this point they panic and quickly go back to nofollow.
My advice: install the proper anti-spam addons and don’t panic! Make sure that you manually review all new submissions and yes you will have a number of pointless, spammy posts but you will also attract quality contributions.
Hi Andy
thanks for your comment with adding anti-spam addons, those are needed.
best regards, ali
Hey Ali,
I am one of your fellow AJ students.
Very controversial and popular topic as I have made a post on my blog about the same thing.
I have installed the DoFollow plugin as I believe that if someone takes the time to add content to my site then they deserve some link love.
If I start getting a lot more spam because of this plugin then I’ll worry about it then, but right now it’s been ok. It’s only been a couple days so we’ll wait and see. You’re always going to get a lot of people trying to find the easy way to get backlinks so I’m sure I will get my share of jerks sending me crap. But at least I have control over what comments I approve.
When you get time come on over and visit my blog and leave a comment.
Later,
Jeff Sargent
Hi Jeff
thanks for sharing your info about your situation, I’m in the same. We’ll see what happens. On my to do list is still to visit all students blogs, I´m too curious not to visit. I dont know what happens with the time. Suddenly it is more than middle of the night and the to do list has grown..
All the best, Ali
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