For all bloggers that appreciate their comments and building a community around their websites, the idea of not giving at least a little link love sounds preposterous. Even though WordPress is widely considered as the best blogging platform available, it comes with a few things that you might want more control over, like adding a “nofollow” relationship to all of your comments.
Now you won’t have to worry… Greg Boser has been working on the DoFollow OPML project and is offering a WebGuerrilla Version (download) of a plugin called DoFollow for WordPress.
This is a great plugin that gives you more control over your comments and trackbacks than ever before.
We’ve had a lot of great response to our DoFollow OPML project. While we work on compiling the list, I thought I would go ahead and release a new DoFollow plugin. We have been playing with several different plugins lately. Of all the ones we could find, we like the original by Kimmo Souminen the best. However, I wanted to have more control on a per-comment basis, so I had Dax add to it.
Once you’ve installed and activated it, you will be able add individual NoFollows or DoFollows from the comment moderation screen.
You will also find a new box on your editor that will allow you to add NoFollow to the comments of a single post.
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Its good thay you are promoting do follow. Its apity that most blogs are now no follow even for quality comments. The do follow plugin will certianly help.
Is it good having dofollow comment enable in SEO? make it dofollow will affect our pagerank because to many outbond links?
@coringe
I believe that no website is an island. With that in mind, outbound links should be included in content, even if that content is a comment. As far as PageRank, I don’t think that you should be concerned with this, work on building the content and the PR will come. If you are extremely concerned, then put comments on another page that is linked from your post, that will direct it more effectively. Thanks for the comment.
Hi I have been hearing a lot about this dofollow and nofollow comments, I just want to know whether there is a way for the person who is commenting to find out that a certain web site is having dofollow or nofollow.
I think the do follow plugin is a great idea and useful tool. While websites should be linked, as this is after all the “World Wide Web”, there are people who simply abuse this simple fact.
However, there are reasons, where on occassion, a website owner needs to control the links out from their pages. This is where I find this plugin most useful and wil be installing it across all of my own blogs.
Great site by the way.
@Michael
I would agree. I think that a plugin that would allow publisher the ability to nofollow certain comments is a great idea. I think that would be huge!
@Ben | Ventrilo Servers
Yes you can but you need to be using Firefox for your browser. You can install it for free, just do a search and you’ll find it. Go to “add ons” in the tools menu and search for “nodofollow”. Install and enable and you will see exactly which links follow and which don’t.
I like the idea of a selective nofollow/dofollower based on comment length or other parameters to help weed out spam.
I agree, the introduction of selective nofollow tags is very cool, I may end up using this plugin on some blogs down the line.
Hi Stephen,
What a stroke of luck stumbling upon your site & even more so this article !
I recently converted my blog to DoFollow after reading quite a bit of info on various sites around the net, it seemed to me to be the fair & practical thing to do.
However whilst browsing the net earlier today, I stumbled upon a video by Matt Cutts, this video was actually about the DoFollow / NoFollow issue, anyway the guy doing the interview asked Matt Cutts if using DoFollow would have any damaging effect on a website..? Matt’s response was that yes it most certainly would harm the authority of any website or blog choosing to adopt the DoFollow rule.
As you can imagine, this has left me wondering which way to go & yes I do realise that being DoFollow does tend to attract some of the lower forms of life, but as I still keep strict control over what comments are posted & what are trashed, I fail to see why it should harm a sites authority..?
Can you shed any light on this issue…?
Regards Steve