Increase your Reader participation add the Do-follow
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With the introduction of the “nofollow “ by Google in 2005, Most popular blog platforms have added it to its comments and reader submitted links which in turn has affected the participation of many bloggers to leave comments on other peoples blogs. Many bloggers believe in the removal of this “nofollow” rule.
What is “Nofollow”?
As mentioned, Google started this in 2005 to reduce the effectiveness of spam, therefore improving quality of search engine results and overall reduction of spam. It was designed by Blogger.com and basically it removed the value of Page rank from the link.
Generally different search engines treat links with nofollow differently, and Google will not count the link as a vote or even index the page if not previously indexed. Yahoo will follow the link and will index the page. Blogger added the nofollow early on and wordpress added it from version 1.5 onwards.
So whats the “Do-Follow”?
Since the nofollow rule it’s had a negative effect especially on blogs, as comments was a good way to advertise and market your own blog. With this introduction people have reduced the comments on other people’s blogs as fewer benefits to themselves. Previously they would gain backlinks fro free. Now the “Dofollow” movement consists of bloggers who encourage commenting and feedback and gie the free backlinks as a reward.
How to Join the “Dofollow” movement?
Can’t mention all types of blogging platforms right now but basically I cover blogger.com and wordpress, which are the most popular two right now.
If you have a Blogger blog it’s quite straight forward to modify to a “dofollow” blog. Simply remove all the “rel=’nofollow’” inside your template. To modify your template , enter your dashboard and click on template and edit HTML, remember to expand the Widget template to be able to see the posts part of the code.
On wordpress blogs have several types of plugins to remove the “nofollow” from the blog. Many Plugins now offer many extra features to the basic removal. As the wordpress has customized blog they differ some what, if you’re looking for the basic version then search for the one called “dofollow”.
But how do bloggers know when you have removed the function? There’s two common ways:
- Open the source code for the blog, which is not easy to understand for the basic blogger.
- The other way is simpler, display the badge which below you will find a few examples. They come in a varying shapes and sizes but the basic wording is common. When bloggers know there be rewarded for commenting they will share there thoughts and make your blog a more interactive place.
All this will improve your statistics and at same time they will benefit, so becoming a win- win for all.
On a personnel note I am currently changing my blog platform to wordpress and have added the dofollow to my blog as I see it as a valuable part of a blogger’s tools.
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Foxster said:
I have a question. As it is the difference between noindex and nofollow? Nofollow clears single pagerank or also it removes them outside the indices from datacenter?
September 28th, 2008 at 11:09 pm -
Sohbet said:
thanks
October 9th, 2008 at 6:31 am
