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Is there any real reason to still have nofollow on in Wordpress with the great comment spam blockers like Akismet and Spam Karma 2?
If you agree go an download DoFollow.
Yes, I think there’s still a reason. The main point of nofollow is to not allow other people (not necessarily spammers) to bump up their page rank by essentially placing links to their sites in your pages.
Most spam prevention systems will usually allow a single link (especially in the author info), as long as it isn’t from a known “spammer”, and the content isn’t too fishy. So, you could have a really dedicated site owner go around to high rank sites and actually make real comments that won’t get deleted (or reported to the RBLs) as long as they seem to relate to the discussion, and therefore use the blog to push their own rank higher, when that may not be the intention of the site owner.
If they spend that much time into making good comments they deserve it. I’ll still delete anything that doesn’t help discussion and the borderline ones I can just edit their uris.
So if you have a site that you can control like mine then it still doesn’t matter.
And I like the fact that people who discuss here get points in page rank, they deserve it. It’s better then not.
I also like the fact that you can timeout the dofollow plugin so it only effects x amount of days.
I know it’s not a big issue, but user self-submitted links does go against the goal of what that aspect of page ranking is trying to achieve. The idea is that someone else linked to your site and that should increase it’s rank, but people posting on other sites and linking back to their own can interfere with this. This is why the nofollow attribute was born (not because of spam).
I agree with you to a point but pagerank should see the links in “good” comments. We have some great conversation and we give some great links; they should be ranked.
Ya, I know what you mean, but the better solution for that in my opinion is for the site owner to add a link themselves. WP provides the links list (or “blogroll”) for this purpose. That way it is site owner initiated, rather than user initiated.
I know but I don’t care for author urls I want the links within comments to be followed. I actually wish the plugin author would have no-follow for comment author urls and have comment urls follow. I just think that some/most comments extend the post and if the post helps pagerank, the comments should as well. Author URLs are a different matter.
I know but I don’t care for author urls I want the links within comments to be followed. I actually wish the plugin author would have no-follow for comment author urls and have comment urls follow.I just think that some/most comments extend the post and if the post helps pagerank, the comments should as well. Author URLs are a different matter.
I know but I don't care for author urls I want the links within comments to be followed. I actually wish the plugin author would have no-follow for comment author urls and have comment urls follow.I just think that some/most comments extend the post and if the post helps pagerank, the comments should as well. Author URLs are a different matter.
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Posted on: Friday, January 27th, 2006 Posted in: asides Subscribe: RSS 2.0 Discussion: 849Commentshttp://dancameron.org/asides/dofollowDoFollow2006-01-28+00%3A29%3A14Dan+Cameron
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