Google dropping PR for blogs that advertise they are a dofollow for comments

Yes, apparently this past week and today, the masterminds at Google have been scouring the internet looking for anything that hints at lists of dofollow comment sites. Anything they find that is has its PR dropped to 0. Apparentlyit is pretty much limited to comment spam and lists of dofollow sites.

 

You know, lack of sources and cites for this claim make this thread rather useless. Provide some data, research, cite, source, something back up what you claim.

 

#1) Where did you obtain this information?
#2) There's no such thing as "dofollow"
#3) Please reword the quoted text below. It makes no sense.

 

lots of paid bloggers had their PR dropped. This is easy to confirm through various message boards. I do wonder if there is a correlation between the dofollow comments and the blogs that got dropped. I noticed that quite a few bloggers who are paid to blog have the dofollow plugin installed.

 

They cannot drop just for having dofollow, probably they dropped for spam

 

Yes, I'm sure you are right about this. There would be an outrage if Google dictated blog policies like this. Google is not the only search engine out there. It's up to them to tweak their rating system to take such things into account, and I'm sure they do.

 

What do you mean dofollow? I knew about no-follow through which wiki uses.

 

Some blogs have a badge called "you comment, I follow.." Or something like that.

It is an announcement that any comments on your site will be a real link, and will not be "rel=nofollow."

My personal opinion = Google is terrorizing everyone now, it seems webmasters can hardly do anything now!

 

Blogs in the Pay per post blog network and other 'get paid to blog' networks have seen a drop in PR.

 

Any source or related article about this info?

 

No, no source other than my own research into this. Just look up dofollow directories and blogs. You will see an almost 90% or higher occurance of PR0 across the board. And one that today has a PR4 will tomorrow be PR2 and then PR0.
Do follow means passing page rank and announcing the fact. There are millions of websites that do this and don't announce it. What I am talking about is the fact that if you announce that you are a dofollow blog or similar and especially if some idiot somewhere decides to add you to their do follow list then your chances of PR drop are sky high.
For noobs, the term do follow came out of the creation of wordpress plugins that reverse the automatic no follow attached to all comments. Now do follow applies to any blog that allows page rank passing through the comments or I guess you could include paid links.

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