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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My name is David Lano and I am passionate about learning everything I can from smart people (you). I can hardly pretend to be an expert in my writings, but will share my experiences and insights as I grow. I hope to instigate discussion in creating an online collaboration of innovative and unique content that is worth talking about.

The launch of a new blog is kind of like buying a complicated piece of electric equipment and bringing it home. You get it set up enough to turn on the ‘On’ button, but things still aren’t exactly how you’d like them — at least not until you’ve done a bit of tweaking, so please bare with me as I experiment.

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