I just learned the other day that WordPress, by default, attaches a ‘NoFollow’ tag to all homepage links added by readers in comments. This acts as a deterrent for spammers abusing a blog’s commenting features, trying to gather a bunch of inbound links to increase pagerank.
Although I do agree that spammers shouldn’t benefit from this sort of behavior, it takes away link love from the everyday reader involved in discussions.
So, I decided to install the Lucia’s Linky Love WordPress plugin and will now be allowing DoFollow on links for regular commenter’s. I may receive some additional spam related comments, but I think it’s worth the risk. Plus, I’m using the Akismet plugin so I’m not too worried.
I have also joined the No Nofollow | I Follow | DoFollow Community in hopes of encouraging the DoFollow movement.
UPDATE: I added the following image to the comment section as a reminder of the DoFollow advantages of participating in discussion.
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2 Comments, Comment or Ping
Barbara
I’ve been reading up on this issue too. It’s good to see a post about it. I’ll be curious to know how the “I follow” works, re comment spam, as I just wrote about that today.
Let me know how this affects your incoming spam.
Feb 8th, 2008
Dr. Nicole
Apr 17th, 2008
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