NoFollow and DoFollow Blogs – What Are They?
There has been a lot of talk around the blogosphere, or at least my section, about no-follow and do-follow blogs. As I am not a complete computer techy I wanted to explain to those who are not clear on the difference.
According to Wikipedia:
“nofollow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct some search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target’s ranking in the search engine’s index. It is intended to reduce the effectiveness of certain types of search engine spam, thereby improving the quality of search engine results and preventing spamdexing from occurring.”
It further states:
“The nofollow HTML attribute was originally designed to stop comment spam on blogs. Blog readers and bloggers were well aware of the immense problem. Just like any other type of spam affects its community, comment spam affected the entire blogging community, so in early 2005 Google’s Matt Cutts and Blogger’s Jason Shellen designed the attribute to address the problem and the nofollow attribute was born.”
So, while a commenter can put his or her link in your comment section, the search engine (Google, Bing,Yahoo) will not use it as part of their page rank criteria and, depending on the search engine, may not allow that link to be followed.
So what is a DoFollow blog?
Simply put, it is a blog that allows a commenter to put his or her link in your comment section.
How Do You Make Your Blog A DoFollow Blog?
Adding CommentLuv and DoFollow Plugins to your WordPress blog seems to be the best option.
Remembering that I am not a complete techy I would love to know if any of you can recommend any other plugins or suggestions.
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Good description! I retweeted, but you need to go into the tweetmeme settings in your plugins and change the @tweetmeme to you twitter handle, it will let you know every time one get re-tweeted!
Additionally, do-follow blogs actually make the link do-follow, some sites (most) let you comment but leave the rel=nofollow attribute on your link.
Another great asset to a do-follow blog is the KeywordLuv plugin which lets you put yourname@yourkeywords and only the keywords are the link, not the name.
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I am looking forward to connecting . I am a true believer that the universe brings to you the people you should surround yourself with . John is the tying force for us all ! Great post BTW !
Thanks Keith I will change my settings thanks for letting me know I really appreciate it! And thanks for the additional info!
Dana nice to meet you! I am looking forward to getting to know you better as well! I was kind of getting down on my personal development blog but back and ready to go full force. I will stop by your site, check it out and drop you the link! Thanks for stopping by and please come again!
Indeed, Keith. You know these terms very well… for you are an adopter of them.
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So, are self-hosted WordPress blogs dofollow or nofollow by default? Anyhow, thanks for the info.
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As far as I know they are nofollow and one has to install the dofollow plugin
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