Monday, February 19th, 2007...12:19 pm...by:
Nofollow No More - For Now Anyway
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After much discussion, we have decided to remove the “no follow” tag from comments made on the blog. Typically, spammers try to take advantage of situations like this. However, I think it is important for bloggers to encourage a thriving blog community. We decided to make this change for two reasons:
- We use the Akismet plugin for Wordpress and it does a super job of catching spam comments.
- I felt it was important to reward those who take the time to leave a comment on the blog with a little “link-love”. Our blog is PR4 currently, so leaving a comment will give you a decent little backlink.
I hope that this works out well and that people do not take advantage of it. If we see a bunch of comments like: “Nice post!” or “I agree!”, things like that which offer nothing of benefit, we may have to bring “no follow” back.
Until then, feel free to comment and reap the rewards :).
If you want to join our “link-love” community, here is the code for the button 
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9 Comments
February 19th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
I am also using Akismet but still i find that some spam comment sneak through ..anyways i am adding you to my blogroll .will be glad if you do the same .
February 19th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
Hi Madhur - I thought you were already added, sorry. Here is the blogroll link: http://crystalcoasttech.com/blog/blogroll/. Thanks for the add :).
February 19th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
I went “no nofollow” not so long ago. I just wish Askimet dealt with Trackbacks as I’m starting to see these creeping in.
February 19th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
Hi Zigire - tell me - how are you alerted to the trackbacks problem?
February 19th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
I get an email every time a trackback or comment is added to the site. So I can see straight away if I need to delete it.
I guessing because I checked the “Email Me when Anyone posts a comment” option in Options > Discussion
February 19th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
We have never gotten an email about a trackback, but we do get them for blog comments. We will have to keep our eyes open. Thanks, Zigire :).
February 23rd, 2007 at 9:38 pm
Cool. I don’t think it’s a bad move at all. Even if someone does sneak a spam or two through you can remove it pretty quickly…
Good luck with the change!
April 3rd, 2007 at 8:03 am
Good move Anthony. If you start getting a few me2’s or hi there nice blog type posts you could always just delete them of course
It would be a shame to punish a majority on the back of the actions of a minority.
Good work! Ps love the little ajaxification here on the comments
May 8th, 2007 at 1:30 am
Hi there, congratulations on your dofollow
I suggest you join the group on bumpzee.com . I believe that this “no nofollow” movement is going the put more personality among blogs…
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