Nofollow – What is it?

Well Google thought that it should go break into website owners business again. This time they found that people were spamming blog comments because they just wanted to get links to inflate their page rank. So, they made the rel=”nofollow” tag. They said that if you add this tag to the comments in your blog, the comments will not contribute to the page rank of the other site. This, they thought, would stop or at least lower the amounts of spam comments that blogs get. Here is the blog post that was made by Google on 1/18/2005 about Nofollow. (Here)

Soon enough blogging software like wordpress started making the rel=”nofollow” default in its product. Obviously some people thought that it wasn’t needed and they started making their blogs dofollow. Essentially that means that the blog does not have the nofollow tag on comment links. You can use this plugin to make your blog a dofollow blog, but before you do I encourage you to read the rest of this article, and check if it is actually the right thing for you to do.

Well, to encourage you to do what is the best for your blog I made this:

 

Reasons to Make Your Blog’s Comments Do-Follow:

 

1. Making your blog dofollow will usually mean that you will have a boost of comments from website owners that want to get links for their website. That is really the biggest thing because each comment adds to the overall content on the web page, which gives you a better chance to rank in search engines.

2. Also, if you actually tell people that your website is a do follow website then you might find yourself getting a whole bunch of links from people making lists of dofollow sites.

 


Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Make Your Blog’s Comments Do-Follow:

1. If you get a lot of comments on one blog posts you might get yourself a problem. Lets say that one page that you have is now a PR5 page. People want that page linking to their website. Because of that, you will start to get a crazy amount of comments on that page. Soon enough, with that many pages linked to from that one page search engines might start to consider that your website is now a link farm. That will drastically effect your website’s search engine traffic.

2. The only people that you will see commenting from then on will mainly be people trying to promote their own website. They won’t care very much about the post. You might even find people just spamming your pages with comments just trying to get themself links.

Well, now I guess it’s your choice do you want to be a dofollow?

Anyway, while you think it over, here are a couple of dofollow sites on this list to quench you link thirst.

D-List - There are well over 200 nofollow sites on the D-List

Well, after nofollow came out people started using dofollow to describe any old site that gives you some sort of link. These include social media sites like digg. Here are 4 Social Media sites that are dofollow.

1. Furl
2. Propeller
3. Digg.com
4. Technorati Faves

Every time you submit to these sites you will get yourself a link. If that link gets “famous” on that social media site then you could be looking at a quality PR link.