Do-Follow Plug-in - Your Comments Now Pass Page Rank To You
Written by George Manty · May 23, 2007
I have been wanting to do this for a while now, because I despise the no-follow tag. It was a ridiculous creation, destined to be abused. That is why I am SO glad that I just activated the Do-Follow Wordpress plug-in.
The do-follow plug-in removes the no-follow attribute from all of the links in your blog’s comments. Not only does this make me happy, but it should encourage you to comment more on this blog. The links you provide in the comments “count” to the Search Engines.
Either way, it’s a win-win plug-in in my eyes…
Let me be the first to welcome you to the ranks of dofollow webmasters!
Good to hear that..
I did the same thing, like, two days ago. I couldn’t see any reason why not. It encourages comments and Akismet or similar takes care of any spam.
Nenad, Markk, Dexter,
I am glad I did it and I plan on doing it with our other blogs. It’s very simple to install and activate.
I learned about DoFollow a little while, and installed in on my blog once I did. I didn’t even know the Nofollow was there! It should encourage comment, especially if you let everyone know that they get pagerank benefits from leaving one.
Ryan,
I agree with you on that. I expect an increase in comments, which will utlimately make this blog a better resource for all.
Great I been looking for a way to do this. I never understood why someone would want the no follow tag anyhow, It encourages people not to comment.
Thats really great! Cannot wait for that happen all over the cyberworld.
Daniel,
I agree. At one point Wordpress didn’t use the no-follow tag. Then one day I upgraded it and viola, the no-follow tag appeared on my comments. I was very disappointed that Wordpress chose that as the default behavior and worse yet that there was no way to turn it off.
Brit,
Met too.
Please pass me the pagerank now
KennyP,
Alright… but just this once
This plugin will definetly help bloggers to get more comments on their blog..
I recently hooked my site up to be a “dofollow” site, actually helped to get me more traffic!
That doesn’t surprise me at all.
That is freaking AWESOME
Umm, I may need to come up with a clear comment policy because of this…
Pretty cool. I think i might install this thing on my blog.
Guitar Hero,
Yes, it is pretty cool.
I have seen a few negatives here.
For instance, some body might just leave comments, just for the backlink and nothing else.
“your article is good” is not a comment. A sentence that talks more on the post is a comment.
bharadwaj
I agree with you. I delete most all of those comments. I made some exceptions on this post, since they came around the time that I posted this and because I had to make a judgement call on these. I decided to judge favorably in some of these cases. However, you won’t find many “good post” comments on this blog, because I delete them or mark them as spam for Akismet.
Thanks for sharing your concern,
George
George, thanx for that good plugin, but as Bhardwaj said, that may lead to a comment spam, lemme try and let you know. Anyway I have turned on Comment Time Out along with Akismet!
Since adding the Do Follow plugin I’ve gotten so many more comments it is really a great plugin
yeah, you will have many visitors when you turn on do follow plugin. this comments is the example. Maybe for some people turn on do follow plugin will bring many spam comments to their website, but anyone that send comments will see and browse their website to know their content. And if they like your website, they will recomend it to their friends and finally the spammers become visitors.
Thanks for sharing this plugin. I’ll have to install this on my blogs and see if it increases the number of comments.
Yeah this will us share and increase the number comments on our blog. This will reward the readers that reply and comment to posts, for as long as you enter your name, your e-mail and the url of your site, you will get a link back to your site. That’s a pretty good idea.
I couldn’t agree with you more. I also use the Do-Follow Wordpress plug-in. Its just not worth taking all the time to go read articles and actually give positive feedback without getting a little something for it.
Thanks for the tip. I am going to implement this on my site as well.
-Tommy
Hopefully Google will take notice and realize that the nofollow tags are a complete waste and shouldn’t be the end all be all of link juice.
That is great. A lot of people only post comments because it gives something back to them. Yeah you could post comments just because you want to, but most bloggers actually participate in comments because they get a little something in return.
Was it tough to get the nofollows removed? Looking to get my blog to be a do-follow.
No it was easy, just used the http://www.semiologic.com/software/wp-tweaks/dofollow/ plugin.
George, this is a cool plugin, I’m undecided as yet on its value but we’ll see… I’d like to suggest another plugin I love
http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/
it allows you to subscribe to new comments via email. Its a great way to follow the comments and boost the conversation via comments because once you post a comment you can respond without having to bookmark the page…
Now if I can just get my main blog back onto Wordpress I’ll be a happy camper
The do follow plugin is fantastic if your sole purpose is to gain more comments, however it will always be open to abuse. I tried it on several of my blogs and I have to admit after the 500th deletion of offensive spam it got excessively tiring. It is always nice for those looking to promote their sites though. Sorry for the plug :p.
indeed the do-follow plugin is a great way to get links to your site and if you have it enabled it also promotes commenting. But the question is could this been seen as a way to game SE’s by encouraging unnatural behaviour.
Don,
Before nofollow was invented by the Search Engines commenting on blogs was considered by the Search Engines as possibly SE spam. And yes, I guess that using do-follow could be considered spam by the Search Engines, but the truth of the matter is that the Search Engines should rely on themselves to make their Search Engine algorithms work better, not on webmasters. It’s not our job, they don’t pay us to make their product better.
Nofollow is so abused by webmasters these days it’s pitiful. It needs to go away…
DO FOLLOW PLEASE AND THANK YOU!
I can’t stand those sites that use the no-follow rule.
Great man. It needs some real courage to allow do follow links on comments. Thank you for the initiative and you are right its a win win situation for you as well as people who comment here.
Keep up the good work. Expecting more blogs on the list of no follow blogs.