No follow - No more
April 11th, 2007
I don’t know about you other bloggers out there - but I haven’t found that the ‘No Follow’ tag on comments has succeeded in deterring spammers one bit! I get tons of spam every day in the comments on all of my blogs. I’d venture to say that people stupid enough to spam, aren’t smart enough to understand that no follow tags are common in blogs and the links do them no good for SEO purposes.
They do, however, I feel damage legitimate reader participation. The web was built on links, as they say… and I love that fact. So I recently activated a quick, easy little plugin that removes the no follow tag from comments.
Now I can reward commenters on my blogs with valued links to their websites. I feel great about that!
comment spam, inbound links, Internet Marketing, no follow, seo
Entry Filed under: Website Promotion
3 Comments Add your own
1. David | April 11th, 2007 at 4:28 am
Yes this is a good idea! I’m using moderation before publishing the comments on my site so I can easily remove all spams and leave the real comments without ‘no-follow’…
2. freelancemom | April 14th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
Hi David, I was moderating all my comments too — I recently started using the Akismet plugin and I’ve got to tell you — It totally rocks. Check it out :)
3. Chris Gray | May 15th, 2007 at 7:56 am
Akismet is the way to go! I have been using this plug-in from day one and it really cuts down on comment spam.
I also have to agree…removing nofollow helps increase the likelihood of receiving comments. I also plan on removing nofollow from all of my comments in the near future.
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