You Comment, I Follow

Blogging, General, Marketing, ToolBox Feb 08, 2008 16 Comments

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 [...]