Say no to No-Follow and follow the Do Follow movement

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by ajaykumarmeher, May 12, 2007.

  1. #1
    To day I was reading a post in Court’s blog about the no-follow html attribute introduced by Google and how to counter this in your blog. This no-follow attribute instruct search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target’s ranking in the search engine’s index. In official google blog they say that it is a good measure to prevent comment spam. But I do not agree with it. what about the top commentator plug-in used in Word Press where visitors can write just about anything to be featured in top commentators list and effectively get an incoming link to their blog. This is a nice incentive to provide your blog readers a link to their blog and encourage them to be a returning visitor. If you are afraid of spam irrelevant to the topic and they comment just for the sake of a link then you can moderate the comments and delete them manually. Why penalize genuine readers for the spammer.

    Source: http://blog.techiezone.in/2007/05/12/no-to-no-follow-i-have-joined-do-follow/
     
    ajaykumarmeher, May 12, 2007 IP
  2. login

    login Notable Member

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    #2
    Good point, and I think that to keep a blog good, comments have to be moderated any way. Then you dont need that tag at all.
     
    login, May 12, 2007 IP
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    stOx Notable Member

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    The idea is that the blog author should decide where his blog links to, Not the commentors. And frankly if someone is commenting on my blog just for a backlink then i don't want their comments.

    I am against webmasters using no follow in an effert to keep "pr leakage" down. If a webmaster adds nofollow to links has has published then that is wrong, He should just not link to the site in the first place.

    sometimes it's not practicle to moderate comments if the blog recieves a large amount of comments.
     
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    tihomir Peon

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    #4
    Top comments WordPress Plugin also uses nofollow tag, even on main site. But yet comments count as backlinks in google according to my analysis.
     
    tihomir, May 12, 2007 IP
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    ronmojohny Well-Known Member

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    #5
    I use the nofollow tag to control the PR within my site. No good reason to bleed PR to your privacy policy or contact us page.
     
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    igme Banned

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    #6
    Many blog today use nofollow,thats why I use this in my blog. Gudluck.
     
    igme, May 12, 2007 IP
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    Theres no good reason to worry about something so trivial and meaningless either... but here we are.

    It's pretty bad when webmaters start using nofollow on links they have added that link to thier own pages.
     
    stOx, May 12, 2007 IP
  8. ajaykumarmeher

    ajaykumarmeher Banned

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    #8
    Guys why dun u go to the post and put your comments. I guess it will be more beneficial for u and all other people. AM I RIGHT?
     
    ajaykumarmeher, May 12, 2007 IP
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    #9
    I do a similar thing, I nofollow user account pages, comment reply links and similar links.

    I cannot confirm any benefit of nofollowing outgonig links to other sites. In fact some of the pages that rank best have some of the most outgoing links.
    Since the comment link goes to the same page as the article link (but with different url) this created duplicate content problems. I nofollowed them and excluded them in the robot. I don't think there is anything wrong with nofollowing links to your own pages (BTW DP does the same)

    I also believe that this will encourage others to link back to you.

    I don't see a reason to hog the PR and I don't see a ranking benefit. PR doesn't matter for ranking anyways, so why would you even care.
    Instead make a site that everyone enjoys. I vigorously delete spammy urls from the comments, but otherwise I don't see why a person shouldn't obtain a link.

    It looks more natural anyways and I have seen anything but a drop in SERPS from this.
     
    andre75, May 14, 2007 IP
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    #10
    It's an interesting debate... although I think if your moderating the blog to keep the spammers at bay there probably isn't anything wrong with giving those who do comment a link that counts.

    -SS
     
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    no matter how much people say PR doesnt matter, it still does. PR means money through link sales, reviews, and TLA..so it matters.

    with that said, I think nofollows are okay on comments, but should never be used in blog posts. If you're taking the time to reference someone, they should be worth the "PR leakage"
     
    guy123, May 14, 2007 IP
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    #13
    it looks a good point but google does not care it
     
    trichnosis, Sep 21, 2007 IP