No-follow/do-follow

I'm curious what other people think of the "do follow" movement.

(Short explanation: wordpress (and other blogging platforms, I suppose) adds a "no-follow" tag in the link you leave in your profile when you comment on someone else site. Search engines won't follow you. Therefore, you don't get "credit" for the link. It's supposed to dissuade spammers.)

Anyway , I've seen a couple of blog posts in the past few days for the "do-follow" plug-ins, allowing commenters the link back to their sites. I'm not totally sold on it. I think it could encourage useless commenting only for the link.

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Submitted by kperfetto (view blog) on Fri, 08/10/2007 - 6:32am

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Good and bad....

Leaving a comment with your link in the comment on BlogHer can improve your page rank... did you know that?

I'm undecided on the no follow/do follow. I was reading Jurgen Nation this morning and she was talking about it. I'm on the fence and think you may want to try out both and see what happens.

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Submitted by Denise on Fri, 08/10/2007 - 11:24
 

I know now. Or rather, I

I know now. Or rather, I know now since some of my incoming links are from BlogHer.

I should have credited her, Jurgen Nation (and Kerflop) was where I heard about the "do-follow" plug-in for WP.

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    • Submitted by kperfetto on Sat, 08/11/2007 - 08:56
     

    Blogger do-follow

    Here's how to remove the "no follow" from Blogger blogs.

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    Submitted by kperfetto on Fri, 08/24/2007 - 14:32
     

    Do follow...

    I use WordPress so I could have got plugins so that I could choose on a case by case whose comments get followed or set a minimum # of comments before they get followed. Because my blog is so new I've allowed follow on all my comments. I have the discretion to delete or block comment spammers, and my site is not busy (Yet!) so that works for me.

    And the linklove goes both ways, I think. Having comments there invites more people to comment and I get more feedback on what I'm doing.

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    Submitted by cerebralmum on Wed, 08/29/2007 - 21:52
     

    Help! I'm confused

    this is the first i've heard of all this... so let me see if I understand. No-follow means If I leave a comment on John Doe's blog, and in my comment is a link to my site (as there often is, since they ask for my URL when I comment) it doesn't add to my search engine ranking? That seems fair I guess. Unless I am misunderstanding.

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    Submitted by Alotta Errata on Fri, 08/31/2007 - 15:38
     

    Right. When you remove the

    Right. When the blogger removes the "no-follow" those links you leave to your webiste when you comment "count," so to speak. You'll see them show up in your technorati profile under "reactions to this blog."

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    Submitted by kperfetto on Sat, 09/01/2007 - 06:07
     

    Thanks!

    now all those widgets I see for no follow/do follow makes sense to me :-)

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    Submitted by Alotta Errata on Sat, 09/01/2007 - 13:19
     

    A coule of comments

    A couple of comments about Do follow/No follow.

    1. I've got a Typepad blog (the Plus account) and therefore cannot setup the Do follow commenting thing. Interestingly enough, Typepad have just updated their commenting features with more to come, and I can't comment on their blog post to let them know I'd like this feature. I guess they get too much feedback?

    2. Do BlogHer still follow commenters? I used to see my comment links from BlogHer in Technorati but don't any more.

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    Submitted by jaycee on Sun, 09/09/2007 - 22:53