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March 22, 2007
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Three weeks ago, I wrote on my own blog that I had turned off nofollow. It just occurred to me this morning, though, that I hadn’t done the same here. That’s big because of all the places it made sense to do it, this is one of the biggest — for the same reason I wrote on Ask Shane:
I’m doing this because your comments add a tremendous amount of value. It’s far more interesting to read a blog that’s a dialogue (particularly a blog like this one where so much of the information is subjective), and we can all learn from each other. If you’re providing value, why shouldn’t you also get at least a link.
So as of this morning, nofollow is off on comments that are more than a few days old. I can do that because I use the world’s greatest anti-blog-spam tool, Spam Karma. I get thousands of spam comments every day, and I can’t tell you the last time one actually got through.
So comment away, and enjoy the link benefit now!
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I’ve contemplated this on my blogs but have hesitated for fear that I’d be more of a target. I use askimet from wordpress and am generally happy with it, though I can’t support it as whole-heartedly as you have above.
Good move. NoFollow should be used deliberately when really needed, it’s shouldn’t be the default behaviour.
has anybody really thought of the implications of the nofollow code. it’s not just being used in the blog world but in a lot of other places. people are feeling like they need to hoard page rank. new webmasters are using it to link to other sites. just because they are afraid of losing page rank.
big social site like youtube are using them. the internet is about everybody connecting to each other not hoard page rank like their’s no tomorrow. I glade you made the right choice. you are help make the internet a better place. who cares about PageRank anyway!
I agree with james. This will help small blog like mine get seen. Thanks for the help.
Also this blog looks amazing I am so glad I found it. I think its time to start learning CSS!
It sure going to get attention, but dofollow movement wont make a huge attention. Still lots of bloggers continue have nofollow and consider the amount of wordpress downloads per day….
“who cares about PageRank anyway!” We’ll almost anyone on the net trying to be viewed via google should care about page rank deeply. Not to say that the nofollow attribute is bad but I do feel that it should be used more dilegently as stated above.