NoFollow removed from serverdome.org
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In case you haven’t been checking my site’s source regularly (who doesn’t really), i removed the NoFollow tag from all comment and trackback links on this blog during the weekend, and went through about 100 comments checking each link for validity. Even with my awesome moderating skills i still uncovered a bunch of trackbacks from article scrapers to remove.
I was hoping to use a plugin that would remove NoFollow on a case by case basis after i moderate each comment but the closest i could find was Lucia’s Linky Love Plugin that will only remove NoFollow from regular commentator links. Since i wanted to reward all commenters (and encourage more people to say their mind), i just removed NoFollow completely from both comments and trackbacks.
List of blogs that remove the NoFollow tag from links.
Why remove NoFollow?
There are many reasons to remove NoFollow from your blog. You might want to encourage commenting, or reward people that actually comment. I’ve even noticed some people removing NoFollow for a while just to get on the DoFollow lists and get a PR boost, then take it off (sneaky yes?). In my experience, removing NoFolow will not hurt your PR as long as you always check comments for links that point to bad neighborhoods, which you should be doing anyway. Google PR for internal and external links is a different thing, you won’t lose any PR juice on your pages if you link to other sites.
Update
Riceblogger has a nifty list of blogs that removed the nofollow tag sorted by PageRank, from PR2 up to PR7.
October 29th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
Why dont you just get a nofollow remove plug in like dofollow i think this is a wordpress blog but im not sure but even if not i think there is a script for non wordpress blogs
October 29th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
That’s what i used actually. Hmm, i didn’t make it that clear there, damnit i should proofread.
December 14th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
Actually, there is a nofollow case-by-case plugin available. Its author is Oliver Bockelmann (fob marketing), and I installed it on my blog about six months ago. It will remove the nofollow tags by default but will also allow you to apply nofollow selectively in cases where you do not want to support the link.
You can find it by searching the WordPress documentation for “NoFollow Case by Case”. I have also linked to the relevant page directly from my post.