Hi guys, i have just set up comment boxes on my own website and was wondering if someone was to add their website link to a comment they post would this take away some of the link juice i have on the page or would it not matter and would it not count as a backlink? What i am worried about is my page being weakened by comments with links to other websites? Will.
I just placed a couple of comments on your website (Feel free to delete them), well your comments are not no-follow. So you're actually voting for them in a SEO point of view. But don't worry about reducing the value of your site, that's not how it works (You will not be removing any of your site's value), the only thing you should be aware of is spam. Once your site gets listed on some do follow lists on the internet you'd end up having a ton (And I'm not kidding) of spam comments. I've managed blogs with do-follow enabled and the amount of spam I was getting was scary.
Thanks Danny boy for testing the website, so it will not effect the strength of my websites pagerank juice. Thanks as well for the advice, i shall look out for spammers, is there anyway i can change it to no follow?
Yes you can change it to no follow, all you have to do is change a single tag, PM and I'll show you how to do it. PS: Your page's PR is only affected by incoming links to your site, no matter how many outgoing links you have.
Really, i have always assumed it was effected by outgoing links also and thats what i have read. Either way i got the programmer to change the links to no follow. Thanks for your help.
If you were refering to my website it is not a wordpress theme, its a website template i got redesigned and i input all the articles myself, use a self coded rss feed and comment box design that a guy scripted for me. Its all fixed now though so its no follow
Some are dofollow and some aren't. By default they're nofollow, but if you do find a dofollow one here's my guide on commenting on dofollow blogs.