Not a bad question man. Basically, there was a movement around a year ago or so that made it popular to make the links on your blog "dofollow", meaning that any outgoing link on your blog would pass "juice" to the site it links to. This was mainly to encourage more comments and interaction in the blogosphere, as the person commenting was being rewarded with a link that actually counts for SEO reasons. Anyway, it's totally your choice, but most SEO guys/gals would recommend against it, because the more juice you let flow out, the less you have (there is a lot more to it, but that's basically it in an nutshell). Hope that helps!
that is still totally unproven, yet people keep saying it like it is gospel can you point to any experiments or perhaps direct comments from cutts that backs that up? I have seen plenty of dofollow blogs do really well in the serps and with pr
Don't take me the wrong way - I was just explaining some of the back history of the dofollow stuff, and how some SEO people aren't fans of it. I neither support or deny it, and most importantly, don't care! Also, I agree with you that it doesn't seem to matter for quite a few well ranking blogs. The only possible negative side effect I can think of off the top of my head is that you can accumulate quite bit of spam on a popular dofollow blog if you're not moderating comments, and if any get through that are linking out to pills, porn, or casino, that might hurt you without you even knowing it (as Google thinks you're passing juice to poopy sites). Great questions though
cool, I just didn't want anyone discouraged from going with the dofollow movement you are correct that it requires a bit more work deleting spam, but it is a good way to attract readers, especially fellow blog writers and webmasters to your blog
Thanks all, my alexa dropped from 72k to 68k in the time I did this. Might just be a coincidence but I like the idea of others getting links