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Wordpress Poisoning Comments with Nofollow
I’m not sure how long it has been going on, but I have been noticing that more and more blogs have comment links with rel=’external nofollow’. How is this good? All of the comments in question were legitimate and not spam, so they could add value to the web and the current discourse going on. I even find it with trackbacks from my one post on my Apple blog to another.
One should be able to give some juice to regular commentors, and many bloggers may not even be aware that nofollow is on by default in Wordpress. It also takes an extension to turn it off since there is no setting to uncheck. Nofollow should be opt-in, or at the very least it should be opt-out.
I for one will be turning on this plugin for my site, since I filter out spam with Akismet and personally approve all comments that pass through the filter. Stop the nofollow craziness. It has gone too far.
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