NoFollow Link for Comments
You will have noted, I’m sure, that I’ve been on a learning curve relating to both networking and blogging and the connection between the two. Networking is so important for small business and if you have a business that has some kind of presence online, then it is important to nurture that. Not all of your client base will come from online and so offline practices shouldn’t be ignored either, but my current posts relate to online activities.
I recently joined the LinkedIn Bloggers forum at yahoogroups and am learning even more about blogging, which is great, because it means I can share that information with you here! Currently the majority of blogging platforms do not allow links from comments to be followed and have a nofollow code inserted as a default. This is mainly due to the problems with comment spam and people who use scripts to pull together portions of posts to manage their blogs in the hope of attracting traffic and whatever else they want to happen. The comment spam is a pain and the others who use that script I view as basically too lazy to maintain their own posts, but it remains that the rest of us who leave genuine comments are penalised by our links not being followed by the search engines.
It is true that visitors can click on the link and come to your blog – that’s one way your readership can increase, but all the same it would be good to see the same reflected in searches showing where all the links are that lead back to your blog. Hence the reason for this particular plug in. I was going to try LinkLove as recommended by Andy Beard at the Ultimate List of DoFollow Plugins but the server was producing an error so I’ve elected to try Dofollow (WP Plugin) instead and will be interested to see how it might assist commenters on this blog. It was very easy to install and set up – just follow the instructions. KMT
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