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WordPress Plugins Say ‘No’ to NoFollow Links
September 6, 2008 by Erik Cunningham
I read two recent articles that drew my attention to my blog linking practices, Get Links Now: Make a Difference, Make Connections, a Search Engine Watch article by Sage Lewis and Quit Hogging All The Links!, by Dr. Pete at User Effect.
I never made a conscious effort to nofollow links from commenters but WordPress made the decision for me when I installed it on my server. I carefully moderate the comments submitted to my blogs so publishing link spam isn’t an issue for me.
After reading Sage and Dr. Pete’s posts, I decided to take their advice and start spreading some ‘link love’. I enjoy being a part of the SEO blogging community and regularly post comments on other blogs. To encourage others to do the same, I removed all of the rel=nofollow attributes from the comments section of my posts.
Because I have a web programming background, I was able to alter the WordPress code manually to remove the nofollow attribute. For those who are less code savvy, WordPress recommends one of two plugins, DoFollow and Follow URL.
Thanks to Sage and Dr. Pete for bringing this problem to my attention and to all of the other bloggers out there sharing the love.
— Blogging — Tags: link building, nofollow links, social media, social networking
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Speaking of links, thanks for that one, Erik
You make a good point - it’s completely understandable for people to nofollow comments after they’ve run into trouble or spam gets out of hand, but too often it’s just a default setting that no one really thinks about. Even when spam rears its ugly head, there are ways to fight it or use nofollow selectively that don’t punish legitimate visitors for the bad behavior of a few idiots.
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