Link Love - Removing the No-Follow Tag

Posted on May 9, 2007
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You’re going to see this image in the comments area of all my articles here at Modest Opinions. WordPress, among other blogging software packages and websites, institutes a "no follow" policy in any area where a user can enter information. The major search engines see this attribute in a link code:

rel="nofollow"

and they won’t follow the link to the destination. It’s supposed to help stop "comment spam" on blogs and other websites. In reality, it doesn’t work very well, and is viewed by many as a failed experiment.

I’ve got other anti-spam measures here, and I’m into sharing the link love, so I’ve installed a WordPress plugin that removes the ‘no-follow’ attribute from my comment links. What’s most bizarre is that I actually had to install a plugin to change the default behavior… you would think something like this would be an option you could set in the default Wordpress setup.

For more information, visit Randa, the creator of the "U Comment / I Follow" graphic and Loren Baker on his blog, Search Engine Journal.

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9 Responses to “Link Love - Removing the No-Follow Tag”

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  1. Randa Clay on May 10th, 2007 5:09 am

    Thanks for the mention and the link love Daniel! Congrats on a nice implementation of Brian’s theme. Much sharper looking than your old template.

  2. Daniel on May 10th, 2007 8:36 am

    Thanks, Randa! Although I “wasn’t too impressed” ;) lol with all of Brian’s themes, this one did stand out once I started playing with it. I like the native 3 column layout particularly since I had to use CSS to emulate it with Cutline.

  3. Randa Clay on May 10th, 2007 8:58 am

    Haha! I guess I’m going to have to give Cutline a try and see what all the fuss is about.

  4. Daniel on May 20th, 2007 4:32 pm

    I’m putting the finishing touches on what will probably be the final design for The Big Book of Spam site, and decided to use Cutline for that. Worked out really, really well. It’s a good theme, easy to customize. I tried using this one, but didn’t like it for some reason… just didn’t seem to fit the subject as well.

  5. Norhafidz on July 1st, 2008 1:27 am

    Thanks for turning your blog to do follow! :) I will turn my blog too after I understand how to download the plugin :)

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