![]() ![]() Because don’t you think it’s time you give your commenters a little more link love? So what are you waiting for? Remove that nofollow. If anyone has a post about the process, I’d love to know about it.įound one post from someone who tried to disable nofollow and eventually got nowhere. UPDATE: After a bit of investigation, it appears that removing rel=”nofollow” from TypePad is a bit more involved – requiring some coding. I’ve searched and been asking around – nothing yet. Login to your WordPress admin account, go to ‘Plugins’ and activate it.īetaBlogger has the details of how to remove rel=”nofollow” from Googles Blogger.Upload it to your WordPress plugins folder on your server (wp-content/plugins/).There are many, but I like Kimmo Suominen’s Dofollow. With a very little effort, you can remove it from your blog. If you haven’t done anything to remove it, you can guarantee it’s still there. This little piece of code looks like this rel=”nofollow”. Isn’t it the least we can do to thank them for being a part of our conversations? And let’s start giving link love to everyone who comments on our blog. Let’s get rid of this little piece of code. And, what’s worse, it doesn’t stop comment spam. In an attempt to stop comment spam, this little piece of code tells search engines not to follow and record any outgoing links placed in comments. ![]() It seems that all blogware – WordPress, TypePad, Blogger, Movable Type, etc – inserts a little piece of code in all outgoing links that come from comments. That ticked me off a little bit so I looked into why. It was only later that I learned that almost all blogs don’t reward commenters with link backs. I thought I might be doing something wrong. And each day I’d check for link backs in Technorati and Google Blog Search. Every day I’d visit and leave comments on anywhere from 12-20 blogs. I also thought it would lead to more links to my blog. My comments created interest in my blog, which led to increased traffic, which led to more readers. When I began blogging, I knew commenting on other blogs was important. We want readers to engage in conversation through commenting. As bloggers, what do we want? Well, we want traffic and readership. ![]()
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