I've just finished writing an article for my new website promoting the removal of NoFollow from your Wordpress blogs. Feedback (and I'm sure plenty of differing opinions) are welcome. 1. Not Deceiving your readers. People say the 'website' field and want to drop a link to the website, but they're unaware that they're not even getting the full-weight of a proper link. Why? No idea, but I think the next step is removing the entire website field from wordpress. 2. More comments. This one should probably be number 1 on the last, but thankfully it's in no particular order. You get more comments. 3. Providing an incentive to your readers. Really, the people who argue that DoFollow blogs promote more spam have clearly never tried them. I receive just as many spam comments on my NoFollow platforms as I do on my DoFollow platforms. 4. Blogging is about a community. Help your neighbours! Seriously. The entire concept of blogging is about to build relationships with fellow bloggers. 5. NoFollow does not discern between spammers and commenters. So, 1/5 of your comments are spam. Well, 4/5 are good comments, and probably deserve the link-love! You're penalizing everyone for a problem that only affects a percentage of your readers! 6. Spam filters are more effective. Spam sucks - we all know it. Does NoFollow solve the problem? No, not at all. Hit up Sixapart for a guide on spam filtering. 7. Because Matt Mullenweg said so. For those that don't know, Matt Mullenweg is the founder of WordPress. Here's what he had to say: In theory this should work perfectly, but in practice although all major blogging tools did this two years ago and comment and trackback spam is still 100 times worse now. In hindsight, I don’t think nofollow had much of an effect, though I’m still glad we tried it. Edit: Just reported this as a duplicate. Sorry!