I've seen this badge around for a while on various blogs and websites and I have always known what the concept was, but I finally decided to do a bit more research and see if it was for me. If you take a look at the source code for your blog, you'll probably see several references of the rel='nofollow' tag. This was originally created to prevent search engines from indexing links left by commenters in order to reduce spam. However, it doesn't seem to work, even as a deterrent, spam still exists. This nofollow tag seems to only penalize legitimate commenters by not allowing the links left in comments of posts to be indexed. I took the step to get into my code and remove the tags. It's easy to do and will benefit everyone who leaves a comment and/or links on sites that do choose to "Follow". This message is one way to let readers know that their comments are appreciated and immediately rewarded with, at the very least, a little boost to their google page rank! From now on you will see the U Comment I Follow "badge" on this site on the top of the sidebar to tell readers that we are a "Do Follow" site. So feel free to comment and share in the love!
Jul 30, 2009
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Cool! Thanks!
wow, very cool info, i'll be checking out my blog template code... thanks!
You're welcome, thanks for the comments!
Thanks for the information- I will be looking into that!
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You are no longer able to save Page Rank by using the nofollow tag anyway. Google took that ability away. So you may as well let every link that isn't a paid link be dofollow.
Good point, thank you for mentioning that! You use to could save page rank for certain links so it wasn't divided among so many and get more "juice" for a smaller # of links, now Google just throws the leftovers away so you may as well remove the nofollow tags.
I still don't get it what you guys talking about save page rank.
I think the point was that before if you had 10 outgoing links on your site google would share between those 10..they would get 1/10 of whatever google was using in it's ranking formula. If there were 5 they would get 1/5, so twice as much "juice" for each link in the euation...so you could "save page rank" by having some of the links nofollow and give more ranking juice to the others. Now it's something like if you have 10 they each get a certain amount..if you have 5 they still get the same amount each instead of dividing it out so by removing the no-follow tags your helping each person who leaves a link and not penalizing anyone by having to divide among more people...so if the links don't follow it's kind of just throwing away the rank boost those links would be getting. Maybe republican blog could fill in all the technical details, but I think that's the basic idea??
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Thanks for the post. It's important to share within our blogging community, otherwiese we're stuck to the big corporations once again which would be terrible!
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karma will not 1. let her new car go to the mtns...i asked...she 2. will not let her old precious blue car go the mtns. i asked...3.. dan will not take a chance wreaking a car he just sold go to the mtns...i asked..4..he will not take the chance wreaking a car he just bought go to the mtns...i asked..beck will not let me pedal her bike to the mtns anor her white whatever...she says she need sit for school, and i am not going fishing to snow lake with mike i am sitting on the back porch throwing thistle theed at the thirds
Thanks for the explaination. I do understand of course, but it leaves me wondering about all the times we've gone out of our way, abusing our rig etc. to take people when it's really not important to them, when it comes right down to it. Our reasons for not wanting to participate get scrutinized, people think we're silly for not wanting to eat out or go to the movies etc. it's all in perspective. In the end I suppose part the reason we go to the blue lakes, the cainevilles etc. is to get away from the norm and the crowds and get a little more than most choose to experience or choose to risk or make the effort so, it's all good.:)
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some time i think that if every blog owner and site owner make his/her site/blog nofollow then back linking and comments are not possible. it's true that for stoping or decreasing the spamming nofollow attribute used by blog/site owner, but there are any other option to stop such type of activities like anti-spamming software, moderation, mannual checking etc. well i feel good to read your post.
The nofollow craze was started because of spam. But we now have spam guards, so i don't understand why some people still use it.
well dofollow also promote lot of spam but now spamming has reduced.I m following dofollow but hardly few spam bcoz the people are well knowledge about spam before spamming the blog.
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I think Google was wrong to introduce the whole 'no follow' thing in the first place, it was supposed to be a vote of no confidence and then they messed it up and tried to incorporate it into their algo. I'm not so sure why bloggers seem to have taken it on board to lock up their sites when all it takes is a modicum of moderating to run a decent blog.
Nice to see you're poking one in the eye of Google :)
regards...
so are you going to disney world in florida with becky karen and karma in feb 2010 ??????i hear they have no, none facilities for off road tooling...the motels are a steal, only $500 per night karma told me
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Thanks for sharing the link love, you rock!
it's nice to read this post after stumbling onto your website via Google. enabling the dofollow attribute is one good way of expressing your gratitude to your commenters who have taken time to read your post. it can help boost traffic as well.
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Didn`t know about that. I`ll look into it.
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Thanks for sharing such a wonderful piece of information
I wish there were more people like you with do follow. However, the comments should be intelligent, not just "thanks for posting" and those things.
thanks for a do follow
tony and shel{i didn't know where else to put this comment} i feel i have to explain myself once again,,,i like you guys a lot , with thanksgiving here in 3 weeks and karen ___nove.24th and qwen in 5 weeks baptism on __-----dec. 5th and matts wedding ___-nove.11, i feel that is pleanty travel for me...3 trips my winter travel...hope none is snowy...karma is nuts on travel....she goes every week or becky meets her halfway or becky comes here and they go to movies or provo etc....so what is my point???my point isi won't be coming -------_nov 6th and __nove 7th was underlining there}i will see you on all the otherthree of the other datesthat will be my winter travelscedule...i didn't know where to put this commmet, just wanted you to know my feeling"the dad"
I love a good honest site that does not try to BS you with nonsense. I did a lot of off roading back in the good ole days. Keep it up boys.
Hi,
I would agree that rel="nofollow" didnt achieve its objective to reduce the SPAM but it did not meet the expected SPAM control target. Yet, it played some role to reduce the spam comment and link building strategies. However, giving appropriate credit to your readers is good enough. Comment spam is no more a problematic job now since a lots of plugin and tools are available which help you to tackle comment spam.
- J.
I think your comment, "this nofollow tag seems to only penalize legitimate commenters by not allowing the links left in comments of posts to be indexed" is absolutely accurate. Nice post.
Thanks for your info. It's great!
Thanks for the post. I read recently that by adding this plugin and thereby encouraging people to comment, your own website ranking, spidering and indexing will go up. Must be true. Any tests?
on monday the 23rd of nov, i will stand in a christmas tree tag line in downtown ephraim avoiding the canyon line with the stevens brothers and then any one, megan or andria who is interested , we will go to the federal government forest line at the restrooms [WHERE BOB WRIGHT GOT STUCK and we pulled him out with yiour green truck}near or below willow creek road to pull out our christmas tree since i don't own a saw anymore, so anyone interested that will happen on nov 25th after the youngs from ashboro arrive
Sounds good.. we have work and school through the 25th, then the in-laws this year for Thanksgiving.
I find this blog also from google image search. However something strange I found that many blogs put that do-follow blog badge but their blog is nofollow.
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Hey - nice blog, just looking around some blogs, seems a pretty nice platform you are using. I'm currently using Wordpress for a few of my sites but looking to change one of them over to a platform similar to yours as a trial run. Anything in particular you would recommend about it?
lovely, could you recommend lovely xmas cards please. impossible to find some decent ones so far....thanks
tony, i have had three people want to know how much i would charge them to link to my blog to advertise their product...i have no idea i told them and that i would have to talk to my business manager...they said i should have thousands of visitors as good as my blog is, ha ha...i don't even know how to post unless i push anon...goggle errases my comment when i post google and live and word press all a mystery
that above was the putz as my profile i loged on with e mail and comment erased and i logged on as barlowputz.com and it erased, the only way i can comment is anon
thanks about dofollow information. this is blog will be useful for blogger.
Many bloggers get paid to advertise on their blogs, but most don't realize they can make money that way...
It's important to share within our blogging community, otherwise we're stuck to the big corporations once again which would be terrible!
Thanks for the info
Thanks! This is a great way to encourage participation in comments.
Thanks for the info! This is a god way to improve your comments. Thanks Again
I think this is a great way to give back to your regular readers who also happen to be webmasters themselves. Well done.
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Thanks for the post. I actually just saw the U Comment, I Follow and it's good to learn what it's about.
too bad some sites needs to make it as nofollow because of spammers scattering everywhere. but yes, it's great way to let your REAL visitors post their comments and check your blog regularly.
It is great opportunity for me to know that your blog is now do follow.
Very nice blog. We just visit ur blog. DoFollow On Trail Adventure With Offroad Motorcycle http://trail-adventurer.blogspot.com.
btw: we have followed at your blog, request to follow also with our blog, maybe you can try about link exchange, thks.
so, tony my real important question is this.......how come neither manning boys{eli or peyton} aren't in the plsyoffs?????????????THE PUTZ
Peyton is in, Eli couldn't hang in December.
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Thank you very much,I love your blog that can dofollow.I ofen look ways to find the dofollow blogs.But I find that many blogs are nofollow.Or just give me the blogs list.They are useless.Thank you again.
I really like your blog. I have also do follow blog- Automotive Mecca and the dofollow links in comments almost doubled my traffic
I really like your blog. I have also do follow blog- Automotive Mecca and the dofollow links in comments almost doubled my traffic
Switching up comments and making them dofollow is definitely a great way to give back to your readers and encourage them to leave free relevant content on your blog. Basically, blog owners are given regularly updated quality content without having to lift a finger!
With that said, it's still important to look out for automated comment posting that really doesn't add a whole lot to the conversation as it literally is spam. You know, the simple one liners that could fit into just about any context.
Great post, is really wonderful.
Thanks for sharing...
Thank for dofollow link, you are good guys..
did you get my recent comment???
Yea, I think so.
Great, wonderful, thanks for sharing!
Nice to see that your blog is dofollow. good content too.
Thanks for this dofollow blog. I am sure that after the next google PR update this page will get around PR 3 to PR 4
thanks for the dofollow link! This is a sweet blog by the way :)
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Blog commenting is an effective way to increase the traffic of the websites and blogs.
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I need to change the source code of my blog too. I, of course, to get some cute logo.
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Do you find that you get a lot of spam comments? Do you moderate or have a spam filter?
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Love the new comment box and the dofollow comment tags. Very nice.
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I think this is a great movement. I know it's tough to keep up with the number of comments you end up getting, but it really is a great way to get people involved in your site, even if it's only on a superficial level.
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