Remove “no-follow” rel tag from wordpress
Since I put my wordpress in blog.webdirectory.si and am trying to help myself and others to promote my and theirs websites I needed to tweek my wordpress so comments don’t have “no-follow” attribute in theme no more.
I found interesting and helpfull plugin to do that. It was written by Cristian Mezei (www.seopedia.org) and installing and using it is very easy.
no-follow attribute plugin Install instructions:
- download remove_follow.7z (7-zip archive) or remove_follow.zip (zip archive)
- Open archive. Inside is a file remove_follow.php. Upload this file via ftp client or any other method to wp-content/plugins. After that login to wordpress admin panel and activate plugin in the Plugins section.
If you have usage of this please add link to this article so other people will be able to use this plugin.
In addition I found great webpage with ultimate list of no-follow scripts.
Quote from author Andy Beard:
Wordpress by default, just like other blogging platforms, has automatically been adding the “nofollow” microformat extension to all links from user generated content such as comments and trackbacks. To support the growing rejection of NoFollow for blog comments, I have compiled this list of plugins that help you remove nofollow from your blog forever.
Besides that I also found interesting webpage on aboutresultsmarketing.com with no-follow article and martinwaiss.com no-follow article in german.
Tags: attribute, comment, external, link, no-follow, rel, wordpress, www
March 24th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Removing the nofollow tag is a very smart idea. Dofollows get a lot more comments and visits. Although some of those comments are obvious spam, I think the benefits aoutwiegh the spam comments.
April 27th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
I think the only one drawback here is the garbage comments, according to what my friends said before, his blog went cluttered by garbage comments after the second day that he dofollowed his blog. He received about a hundred garbage comments, although he said that one advantage he Likes is the immediate increased in traffic, pagerank as well as click on his adsense.
May 17th, 2009 at 11:25 am
I made my blog, Architecture with a capital A, dofollow two weeks ago and despite listign it in most of the major follow directories, there has been only a modest rise in visitors. Still its early days yet and I’ve become a committed dofollow blogger. Any tips on how to get more follower?
May 21st, 2009 at 12:18 pm
I’ve been using DoFollow for sometime now and participated in all of the hype surrounding it by leaving comments on posts like this. I think it does build more of a community as encourages comments which is what we all like to see right?
June 2nd, 2009 at 7:48 am
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June 20th, 2009 at 6:03 am
Smart thing to do since there are so many dofollow search engines and software out there. Its the best way to get traffic and comments in my opinion.
June 23rd, 2009 at 3:08 am
Thanks to friends who matter. For informing us about such a thank you to the site owner
June 23rd, 2009 at 9:16 am
Agreed, as long as people leave qualified comments, I don’t mind them using their keywords in my blog. I regard it as a two-way courtesy.
June 23rd, 2009 at 5:56 pm
That an harsh problem, i want comments but sometimes the dofollow encourage too many people to spam. But a nice comment for a backlink is a good deal i guess.
June 27th, 2009 at 11:06 am
Your blog is very informative and helpful .. thanks…..keep it up.
July 3rd, 2009 at 9:42 pm
My default install was set up as dofollow. It is version 2.7.x, did they just start setting it to nofollow? That is terrible! Come on WP!!
July 4th, 2009 at 6:08 am
Your blog is very informative and helpful .. thanks…..keep it up.
August 4th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
your blog is very informative…thanks for the nice posts that you always come up with
August 4th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
dofollow is the best and effective way to get tracffic
August 4th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
allowing dofollow can get spammers into your site, but that can be controlled as well.
August 23rd, 2009 at 9:17 am
Lucia Link-Love plugin it’s a good choice,adds dofollow only after a chosen number of approved comments in that way you have the control about giving dofollow links to your visitors.Spammers attacks nofollow blogs as well maybe not like dofollow ones are attacked but still..
August 26th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
My default install was set up as dofollow. It is version 2.7.x, did they just start setting it to nofollow? That is terrible! Come on WP!!
September 2nd, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Thanks for info about the download link.
September 2nd, 2009 at 4:22 pm
thanks for the link download…
September 2nd, 2009 at 4:24 pm
i will try dofollow .. thanks for info…
September 4th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Hi, I want to know how can I remove nofollow tag from Blogger pages. I have few blogs there. I have downloaded your file. Will it help me? Please reply. Thanks
September 6th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Very good information, thanks
September 8th, 2009 at 2:04 am
dofollow comments on dofollow blogs makes a blog site more popular therefore more hits and unique visitors to the site. as long as there is a certain limit to the number of dofollow comments, i think it’s fine.
September 10th, 2009 at 7:14 am
I don’t like Wordpress even a little, but this is nice-looking in spite of that. Good work.
September 11th, 2009 at 2:57 am
Obviously as a do follow blog you will get more spamming but you will also have more traffic from people visiting your blog which is great. As long as the commenter adds something of value I don’t see what the big deal is with having your keywords as the link. I know some people get their panties in a bunch over it.
September 11th, 2009 at 6:01 am
Yes your information is very helpful and thanx for the download link.
September 12th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
I love do follow blogs.It is good to know that many bloggers are using dofollow for blog comments.If it is nofollow many blog posts may not receive any comments.
So, dofollow increases comments for posts!
September 14th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Your right, do follow attracts a lot more spam but does encourage comments, however, I would say it encourages 1 off comments rather than the building of an actual community and loyal readership
September 15th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Indeed removing the nofollow in the comment URL is a great incentive for visitors to leave comments in your blog. Many people use nofollow as a way to discourage spammers.
But believe me the only thing that would discourage a potential spammer is forcing him to give up his time in exchange for whatever he’s trying to do. In any relathionship it’s give and take for both sides.
So keep on blogging. And if you ever need are more attractive blog, feel free to get in touch with me.
Leaving your blog theme to the default design will certainly reduce the stickyness despite your very informative articles.
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September 23rd, 2009 at 10:03 am
Remove no follow is double edge. You get more content and traffic, but you have to deal with more spammer.
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October 9th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
It is benifical that some external links are followed from sites as Google likes to see inbound and outbound links from a site as it is natural for the internet to built on links-good for SEO one can say.
October 16th, 2009 at 5:17 am
yes this plugin is working well
November 11th, 2009 at 9:24 am
Your right, do follow attracts a lot more spam but does encourage comments, however, I would say it encourages 1 off comments rather than the building of an actual community and loyal readership
December 8th, 2009 at 10:08 am
Thank you very much for sharing. Your information always proves to be useful. I think your post is suitable for everyne, who is interested in valuable resources . I will keep following your posts.
December 16th, 2009 at 1:48 am
Excellent site, keep up the good work. I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say I’m glad I found your blog.
January 6th, 2010 at 6:10 pm
Search engines often overlook what you might assume are some of the web’s best pages. Just think of the tools many designers use to make web pages exciting. Great illustrations, stunning photos, animation and emoting music. Throw them all onto your pages and the world’s most important web ’spiders’ might just crawl right past you.