Removed the nofollow attribute from the comments section of this blog
Published in: Blogs, WordPress
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Tags: Blog, Dofollow, WordPress, WordPress Plugin
Ok, I have done it! After doing an analysis on the number of spam comments when the rel “nofollow” attribute was not implemented and after it was, I have removed the “nofollow” attribute from the comments section of this site. I did not find significant difference in volume of spam comments and that does not make any sense to implement the “nofollow” attribute and deny any link credit to my valuable readers.
If you have made comments in this blog in the past, you will get the link credit for your comments as the “nofollow” attribute no longer exists. And for all the comments you will make here onwards, you will always get the credit for it.
Removing the rel “nofollow” attribute from the comments section was rather an easy job, my big thanks to the “Dofollow” plugin, for WordPress, from Semilogic which was very easy to install. Just install it and activate, that’s it!
The following links might interest you if you need more info on nofollow attribute.
- Working Together Against Blog Spam - Live Search Official Blog
- Preventing comment spam - Official Google Blog
- Prepare for more comment spam, not less - Semilogic
Binny V A Said,
August 22, 2007 @ 11:04 am
Forget the spam comments - any increase in real comments? Thats what I want to know before doing the same in my site.
Raj Said,
August 22, 2007 @ 11:10 am
Binny,
Too early to say but I expect to see an increase in comments going forward. I recommend that you implement it on your blog too and observe it for one month. Make sure your readers know about it! Now how many will comment because I removed the nofollow will be interesting to observe!
Adam Said,
September 27, 2007 @ 1:19 pm
If you have troubles with comment spam, try the Akismet Wordpress plugin - it works wonders for filtering out the spam. I use it (and a dofollow plugin) on all my wordpress blogs.
Bape Said,
September 28, 2007 @ 12:33 am
Its ironic that many bloggers talk about this but then they actually use no follow.