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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.
[...] Jason Blogs » Wordpress Poisoning Comments with Nofollow The decision to put nofollow on all WordPress comments, without having an option in the control panel to turn it off, is one that shouldn’t have been made for WordPress users. They’ve gone from creating a tool to making decisions for how it will be used, (tags: wordpress spam splogs comments blog) Posted: January 20, 2007 by Nathan Weinberg in: [...]
Great decision!
Every blog I find that doesn’t use nofollow and is relevant and interesting to me I subscribe to immediately
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Good decision. I had no idea this was even going on, thanks for the link to the plug in.
About two weeks ago I noticed the same nofollow on my blog and after searching for the meaning on the Internet was very surprised. I turned off nofollow on one of my blogs, I want to see how it affects my position in SERPs. Probably there will be no change, but I don’t want to be wrong. We’ll see. If everything will be OK after 2 months, I’ll turn it off on the remaining two blogs.