Most SEO experts agree on at least one thing: incoming links to your web pagees are very important when it comes to determining where your page will appear in the search engine listings. An impediment to getting these valuable links is that, by default, most blog platforms are set up so that a “Do Not Enter” sign is added wherever a link appears in a comment. This means that search engines will not “count” the link as they are crawling the internet. In geek-speak this is known as a “no-follow”, originally designed to help stop comment spam. With today’s ease of comment moderation by blog owners it’s really not needed. In fact, what it actually does is remove some of the incentive for your readers to contribute the blogging community by commenting on your posts.
What can be done about this? Do what I’ve done, I’ve turned off “no-follow” because I appreciate my reader’s comments. How? It’s easy. If you use WordPress, use this plugin. If you use Blogger for your blogging, then read this instructional post on how to modify your template.
So if you’d like, please feel free to comment and include a link to your site. We’ll both benefit; you’ll have an incoming link to your site and I’ll have an engaged readership!
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I find it some what annoying that blogs default to ‘no follow’ when I think the majority of bloggers don’t know what ‘no follow’ is or that such a thing even exists! Everyone should be encouraged to be involved in the wider online community and in return why shouldn’t they get a link to their site. The more someone adds to the community then the more they SHOULD be rewarded and this in turns helps the community to find companies who make an effort to interact with the online world. As mentioned in today’s moderated world there is simply no need for the ‘no follow’ system.
What an interesting website – I am glad I happened to come across it. I did notice a spelling mistake on this page however, ” your web pagees “. Of course, I never make mistakes on my site (www.simoncoatesphotography.co.uk)
Thanks Blake to write about Nofollow/Dofollow, It’s really a concern for the searcher now, It’s like impossible to find a related dofollow blog to comment. Maximum blogger’s have set the nofollow attributed because no one wants to share his linkjucie. I’ve heard Yahoo and bing follow nofollow attributed link, what do yo know about that.
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