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Kill noFollow Now!

By Ken Xu on Jun 29, 2007 in Blogging, Wordpress

Do you know about noFollow tag?

NoFollow is a tag that permitted by Google to apply to our site/blog. A link that we add “NoFollow” Tag will not receiving any SEO advantages from our blog/site. For example, if you link to your friend, Andy. He will not get any SEO benefits (PR, Link Anchor, etc) from your blog if you add the “nofollow” tag to the link.

NoFollow tag will tell the search engine spider/robots (especially Google) to ignore the link or pretend that the link is a Death link.

In your blog, noFollow tags are implemented in you comment page by default. This tag will share no SEO benefits of you site/blog to your commentators. The reason for implementing noFollow tag is to give no change for the spammer to get a share of you site ranking benefits.

But lately, Along with the improvement of Spam Filter System for your blog comments, I’ve found some group of bloggers making campaigns to eliminate this noFollow tag by applying the “U Comment I follow” Plugin for their blog.ucommentifollow.jpg

The purpose is very clear here. They want to share their site benefit to their reader. There is no point to keep your linking benefit for yourself and won’t share it with your loyal commentators. Since we have a great spam filter like Akismet or Geek’s Spam Filter. It’s safe to remove this tag.

And this also become my top motivation to bring up this discussion. I hope bloggers will soon remove their nofollow tags and join in this campaign.

Comment + NoFollow = No Trust to Your Reader

Below are the bloggers who have implement this plugin and join the parade to free from nofollow tag. We should thank them because they are willing to share their SEO wealth to us!

I will update more blogger’s site every time I stumbled on them. If you have put “You comment I follow” plugin and activated it properly, please don’t hesitate to let me know.

I will provide 100 40 links for register and I will show 20 of them up on every Wednesday until the list’s out numbered. It just a part of my volunteer work to join the campaign in eliminating nofollow tag. Have no hidden intention at all. :)

Tips to use this list:

Because they have implemented do follow system, every link that point out from their blog is count as an outbound link. So, Do comment a lot at their blog and you will get a lot of linkback from them! :twisted:

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14 Excellent Responses for "Kill noFollow Now!"
  1. MyAvatars 0.2 jamy Says:
    (June 29, 2007, 11:58 am)

    A, Jagan use the word kill lah. It is very negative, use positive word lah. I let you find one :)-

    Reply to jamy
    1. MyAvatars 0.2 Ken Xu Says:
      (June 29, 2007, 11:01 pm)

      Hahaha. I use kill to express the word “NoFollow” is a negative word. So, I Hope People who read it will immediately follow this campaign and delete the nofollow! :)

      Have you follow this campaign, Jamy? If you have, let me know! I will include you in my do-Follow-Fellow List next Wednesday :wink:

      Reply to Ken Xu
  2. MyAvatars 0.2 Laura Says:
    (June 29, 2007, 4:21 pm)

    Thanks for including my blog on your list. I definitely think that noFollow has outlived its usefulness. Akismet works great for me. It misses very few spam and rarely puts a real comment in the spam category.

    Reply to Laura
    1. MyAvatars 0.2 Ken Xu Says:
      (June 29, 2007, 11:08 pm)

      You are welcome, Laura. I use Akismet too. Although it happen to slip out a spam message like:
      “Very Good article, Thank you! xzvzxvsffx”
      As soon as I mark it as spam, akismet block them the next time they come!
      It’s working great! :)

      Reply to Ken Xu
  3. MyAvatars 0.2 listikal Says:
    (June 29, 2007, 5:30 pm)

    I thought about doing this exact same thing Ken. I hadn’t seen this new logo either, very cool.

    Reply to listikal
    1. MyAvatars 0.2 Ken Xu Says:
      (June 29, 2007, 11:10 pm)

      Is it? Haa… Thanks god you like it! I design it myself. :)
      Just trying to add some uniqueness to the logo. If you like the logo, just copy+paste to your blog! :)

      Reply to Ken Xu
  4. MyAvatars 0.2 jamy Says:
    (June 29, 2007, 11:43 pm)

    Yes, I did. In fact, I wrote about it a couple days ago.
    This is my url where I mentioned it.
    http://seaykopitiam.blogspot.com/2007/06/increase-pagerank-and-follow-comment.html

    Reply to jamy
    1. MyAvatars 0.2 Ken Xu Says:
      (June 29, 2007, 11:59 pm)

      Nice! I will include your blog next time! :)

      Reply to Ken Xu
  5. MyAvatars 0.2 Todd Says:
    (June 30, 2007, 7:32 pm)

    Hello,

    Thanks for spreading the news - I use the DoFollow plugin at http://www.scrapscene.com. Does that qualify to be added to your list?

    Thanks,

    Todd

    Reply to Todd
    1. MyAvatars 0.2 Ken Xu Says:
      (June 30, 2007, 10:59 pm)

      Sure, Todd!

      As long as your blog have to logo “you comment I follow” Like the one in my comment box, I will include your link this Wednesday! :)

      With That Logo, it indicate you are the member of dofollow people!

      If you happen to find friends that follow this campaign too, please let me know, I will add them too! :)

      Cheers!

      Reply to Ken Xu
  6. MyAvatars 0.2 Meg Says:
    (July 1, 2007, 9:48 am)

    Hi Ken

    I follow! Though I’m not sure how to include the logo in my comment box (I have it on my sidebar)

    Reply to Meg
    1. MyAvatars 0.2 Ken Xu Says:
      (July 1, 2007, 11:01 am)

      Yup! Meg, you are in! :D
      No problem. As long as you have the logo that tell “you comment, I follow”, it’s qualified! :)
      Yup, 9 more spaces for this wednesday! :)

      Reply to Ken Xu
  7. MyAvatars 0.2 Johnny Fuery Says:
    (July 6, 2007, 8:31 pm)

    Thanks for the shout out, Ken. I’ve added you to my feed reader…

    Reply to Johnny Fuery
  8. MyAvatars 0.2 nicusor Says:
    (November 13, 2007, 10:42 am)

    Thanks for your support of Do Follow Movement!

    Reply to nicusor

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