Dofollow
Written on Oct 18, 2007 // Site.Once upon a time, blogs started getting flooded with spam comments. This was done because in the comment a link would refer back to the spammers site. This is a backlink. The more backlinks you have to your site the higher your pagerank on Google becomes. This is a good thing. Spamming is a bad thing. It got so bad that search engines started checking for a ‘nofollow’ tag that would mean that comments wouldn’t count as backlinks. This was done to stop the spammers, but it was useless. Fast forward to late 2007 and everyone uses anti-spam like Akismet to protect their comments, but software like WordPress still places a nofollow tag on comments. This is bad because valid backlinks from you lovely people who post real comments don’t get counted either.
Enter the dofollow plugin which I have now added and activated.
So as of now all your new (and old) comments have the nofollow removed and thus give you proper linklove the way the internet was supposed to work.
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Humane
Oct 18, 2007, 16:46Comment: Yay!
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Dave Haygarth
Oct 18, 2007, 23:44Yep - I can see where you’re coming from… pagerank should be based on intelligent algorithms and filter out comment spam their own way… not just rule out comments as being legitimate!