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[sjachille]

I have done away with the nofollow on my blog comments - I think you should do the same - here's why ...
Join the i follow community

I'd like to know you opinion on this matter.

[Andy Atkins-Krueger]

Sante - I'd be grateful for an explanation of exactly what you mean there? What are the risks?

Andy

[sjachille]

Well IMO there are no risks, in fact I believe it's a good thing - I detailed my arguments in the post with all the information on how to proceed stripping the nofollow for those who should choose to do so

[oskar]

I agree on all the matters, I think sjachille is right on the money!!!

Giving away link love will make visitors be more likely to post and give useful information as well as generating useful content, and as we all know content is king for search engines.

Unless the blog is receiving a huge amount of visitors and posts spamming posts can always be manually removed as it has always been done in forums. It doesn't take that long and if your blog is being updated on a regular basis that shouldn't be an issue.

I wish wikipedia will follow your advise sjachille !!

[sjachille]

Thanks Oskar,
I appreciate your feedback. I was just posting a comment on a blog in Italian where I said that we should all try and think a bit more "out of the box"

That's what Einstein did and look how far he went !

[Jimmy123]

Hi rifardo,

What is IMO, how it risky. Please provide me all information about IMO.

[sjachille]

IMo = In My Opinion - sorry for the misunderstanding

If you were looking for further insight and if there are any "risks" involved in nofollowing - I would'nt say there are: you'll just have to police your blog a bit more than usual, as there are always people trying to drop a link without providing a useful contribution to your blog - that's life guys, there's always somone looking for the shortcuts ...

[Liam Billington]

I don't think we should be risking anything where clients are concerned. By all means, go ahead and sell links within your own website, but I would be very careful. If you want to perform well with Google, then you must abide by its rules or feel the penalty.

Oscar, Wikipedia spam is not useful for the readers of Wikipedia. As long as you have a valid and useful link, then by all means. A lot of links for Wikipedia are just crap which are "related" to the article, but don't hold any value for the user whatsoever. Oh and you can still spam Wiki if you please, as there are lots of bots which scrape content from there as well as the links. One example is about.com which is an authority website in its own right.

[Peter Kersbergen]

Liam: The dofollow plugin doesn't have anything to do with "selling" links as such. Wordpress, as example, comes standard with a nofollow tag on links in comments made by users. If you think about it, this is actually not constructive. Quality links from your site to relevant other sites are only a positive sign & they can give extra confirmation of what your article is about.

Further, as Sante says, it becomes more attractive for visitors to make comments and thus contribute user generated content to your blog - which is a win-win situation.

I can unfortunately not for the life of me remember which conference it was, but earlier in 2007 during a session in London the subject of good seo-related plugins for Wordpress was brought up, and dofollow was a part of this.

[Liam Billington]

How is linking out to people with usually crap sites benefit your SEO?