Remove nofollow from blog

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by HardgainerTips_com, Dec 8, 2008.

  1. #1
    Hi everyone

    I'm contemplating removing the nofollow tags from my blog's comments. Would there be any disadvantages to doing so with respect to page (thinking for the future) or SEO?

    Any comments would be appreciated.

    Thanks
     
    HardgainerTips_com, Dec 8, 2008 IP
  2. Sem-Advance

    Sem-Advance Notable Member

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    #2
    Whats the goal??? to build a business or worry about what some search engine wants??

    Car makers tell people not to drink and drive... but drunk drivers are arrested daily.

    Doctors would have people believe they know all the correct answers but the next day their patients die unexpectedly.

    Build your business first and worry about what a search engine thinks last...
     
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    thanks for the feedback and link.
     
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    I think the disadvantage to this would be your blog getting posted on a fofollow blog list, which then gets distributed online, which then sends tons of people back to your blog to spam it full of comments, which you then have to spend your time moderating or deleting. People post dofollow lists on here all the time and add "don't spam these sites" but if you're a spammer, what do you care? I see lots of stories online about people turning on nofollow or turning off comments altogether because there blog ended up spammed with hundreds of useless comments linking back to gambling and viagra sites.
     
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    Good point however you could use Askimet and weed out 99% of those silly spammers.....

    ;)
     
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    Yeah, the only downside I've seen is that you have to stay pretty active with comment moderation. Make sure not to link out to any bad neighborhoods and it will be fine.

    I run all my blogs dofollow, but I'm pretty picky about what comments get approved.
     
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    What is Askimet??
     
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    #10
    Its part of Wordpress blogs where you can join wordpress.org and use Askimet to stop most spam posts on your blog.

    You can also visit the site directly.

    http://akismet.com/
     
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    #11
    The best explanation I studied on this is the Gary Conn interview at ThouShallBlog...study it as if your life depended on in.

    Personally,I'm staying "Do-Follow" at MarketSecrets.biz,but just to let you know, there is a do-follow plugin that allows you to set when a commenter's link will get followed. In other words, a commenter wouldn't get the "follow" benefits until after their third comment(or whatever number you set it for) on your post ;)
     
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  12. HardgainerTips_com

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    #12
    Funny..I have a wordpress blog and didn't even notice it was already installed.

    Thanks for the info..
     
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    #13
    No problem

    You seriously are not posting SEO tips and discussing front page results for a term which has 39 pages competing??????

    Results 1 - 39 of 39 for

    Please tell me you are not spreading that info online because doing so just adds to the BS spread by so called seo's...:rolleyes:
     
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    #14
    You would be getting a lot of spam!
     
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