Do you Follow?

[ses5909]

Just wondering who here removes the nofollow tag from commenters? I remove the nofollow tag here on TBE after three comments. On ilovecode I follow every comment.

If you prefer to use nofollow, can you tell us why?

[adalante]

Yup, i'm in the dofollow crowd simple because i think people who comment on my blog should be rewarded, because i do moderate the comments so if they did post something valuable than at least they get a small reward for that...

[BPartch]

It appears WP adds it by default. :(

[BPartch]

I found this: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-15-plugin-strip-nofollow-tag-from-comment-urls/4/ Now I have no nofollow on my comments. :)

[Bloggeries]

I'm part of the dofollow crowd. If your blog is huge you should either moderate or make nofollow. If it is dofollow and you get thousands of comments a day most will be spam and you don't want your site linking to them.

I think a great combo is the top commentators plugin. Make comments no follow and have the top commentators as a sitewide with follow :D. Helps when you get in the ground floor though.

That being said using the top commentators plugin does entice spammy posts itself. Oh well you can't win!

[Jeremy]

I'm part of the dofollow crowd. If your blog is huge you should either moderate or make nofollow. If it is dofollow and you get thousands of comments a day most will be spam and you don't want your site linking to them.


Not really an issue any more with the easy access to quality spam protection plugins/features. The nofollow default was really initially put in place to make it less attractive for spammers, but since you can easily block them with spam protection it shouldn't make things any worse if you do follow.

[Emma]

I follow, and use the akismet plug-in for spam.

[Dan Grossman]

I don't like nofollow.

[fatnewt]

I still have the nofollow in but mostly because I forgot it was there. I will be removing it.

I moderate all commends anyways, so I don't really see the need for it.

[dojo]

I was shocked to find out wordpress has this nofollow thing by default. I dislike these tricks and when I realized my site wasn't "OK" in this I installed the plug in. I do value my commentators, this is a good way to show them this.

[deronsizemore]

I follow. I think it gives a little incentive for visitors to comment. I guess if I were to ever get huge in the blog world, I'd have to enable nofollow just to help stop the mass number of "nice post" comments that would flood in, but that's neither here nor there so I don't have to worry about it right now. :)

[SarahG]

Had the dofollow plugin running for a year or so now. It's in my list of standard plugins that go on any blog I install now. I usually set it to turn the nofollow off after 24 hours so that I can just check any links left.

[splitbrain]

I'm one of the no-follow guys. I openly advertise it below the comment form to let potential manual spammers know they're wasting their time.

I do not buy into this "link love" stuff. I love it when people comment in my blog - but they should comment if they have something to say, not because they get something back.

I spread my link love in the posts. If you comment regularly and I like your blog, chances are high that I will mention you in a post some day.

[SarahG]

I've switched my dofollow plugin to the one from Greg Boser - New DoFollow Plugin (http://www.gregboser.com/dofollow-plugin/) that still turns off nofollow, but it allows you to manually turn it on for any link you don't trust.

[samwoodfin]

I agree with what splitbrain said, above. But I installed the All Passion LinkLove plug-in because I was ticked at Google. It removes the nofollow tag after someone has left 10 comments or thereabouts.

[Jeremy]

I've had comments both do and no follow, and there was no difference in the amount of spam. 99% of spam comes from automated scripts and bots that just scour the web anyway, so it wouldn't matter what your links are set as. They will still try to spam your site.

[SarahG]

I've had spam comments full of nofollowed links (set by the spam bot). I think these days they're after human traffic as opposed to just linkbacks.

[SarahG]

I've switched my dofollow plugin to the one from Greg Boser - New DoFollow Plugin (http://www.gregboser.com/dofollow-plugin/) that still turns off nofollow, but it allows you to manually turn it on for any link you don't trust.

Just thought I'd point out, this has been updated to WP 2.5 now (I just went to check, bit late on the update tho as it's been updated for 3 weeks!) - DoFollow Plugin Updated for 2.5 (http://www.gregboser.com/dofollow-plugin-updated-for-25/)

It's a great plugin as you can turn off nofollow but any borderline URLs you can turn nofollow on for individually.

[campodiez]

I do follow since last week. I think people should be rewarded for commenting, especially when they have something to say that adds value to the post.

[Musicology101]

because of recent spamming i was forced to revert to nofollow. :shakefist:

[calvynlee]

after have do follow, does it affect our website PageRank?

[bsd13]

On my pet snakes blog I do not follow but on A Blog about Nothing I do. Reason being is that the type of people who comment on pet snakes are generally people who come from google sources and are looking for some information. They don't usually have websites (at least not ones they link to).

Other people who are in my realm of knowledge who might want to leave comments really have no clue about SERPS or SEO for the most part and when you try to tell them about it they could care less. So I figure why bother?