WordPress plugin: Strip nofollow from comments

Posted on: February 28 2007
Category: Wordpress Plugins
By: eches


I just installed Follow URL plugin for this blog. This plugin will effectively remove the "rel=nofollow" tag from the comments you leave in every post; it means every link will be displayed and followed by search engines! The "rel=nofollow" is meant to prevent or somehow reduce spams but as this blog is fully protected by the Spam Karma plugin, I don't see the need of having nofollow tag for each comment left in this blog. I'm just worried when previously Spam Karma gave false positive response to few innocent comments ;)

So by having this plugin in action, I hope this will give some incentives to regular visitors of this blog who take their time to leave comments. Feel free to comment whenever you have something to share with and reap the rewards :)

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  1. Garry Conn says on February 28, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Eches,

    Thanks for making us aware of the new plugin. This can come in handy for me because I want people to get indexed from my site. That is the least I can do towards helping others. I didn’t know that comments used the nofollow. That really doesn’t help people at all!

    I will be sure to get the plugin and install in very soon.

    Garry

  2. Garry Conn says on February 28, 2007 at 5:25 am

    Also.. I have a new site I just launched. Can we exchage links? It actually a re-launch for me and it does already have traffic. It is currently a PR3… so it would be worth the exchange. Please let me know.

    Garry

  3. SEO Reloaded says on February 28, 2007 at 5:32 am

    Thats a great way of ‘rewarding’ your visitors :) Good to know about the plugin. I’ll also install and try it out on my blog

  4. admin says on February 28, 2007 at 5:56 am

    Hello Garry, is that your link you are talking about, the one attached to your name? added! :)

    It’s good to let everyone knows about this lovely plugin.

  5. Garry Conn says on February 28, 2007 at 6:18 am

    Thanks man!

    I have proudly added your site to my favorite blogs listing on my site.

  6. admin says on February 28, 2007 at 8:31 am

    Thanks garry :)

  7. Garry Conn says on February 28, 2007 at 8:33 am

    You are welcome! Thank you…

  8. Ahmad uzair says on February 28, 2007 at 10:02 am

    thanks eches..good plugin your bring to us!

  9. Thilak says on February 28, 2007 at 2:28 pm

    That was a sweet plugin, I’ll give it a try on my local host. Thanks for sharing

  10. Zigire says on February 28, 2007 at 4:45 pm

    Nice one. Good to see more of us doing the same (I have a similar plugin: NoNoFollow installed)

  11. Paula Mooney says on February 28, 2007 at 6:43 pm

    Dude, you just inspired me to leave a comment and get some of that great link love!

    When I set up my WP niche blog I plan on doing away with the nofollow too.

    Hate the nofollow.

    Love the dofollow.

    Rock on,
    Paula
    http://paulamooney.blogspot.com

  12. Dj Flush says on February 28, 2007 at 8:22 pm

    Eches i only use the built in Akismet for Spam protection

    If I install this plugin? You sure it wont hurt my Blog health in terms of massive spam :O?

  13. Thilak says on February 28, 2007 at 8:39 pm

    DJ Flush: Actually, removing the nofollow tag will have no effect at all (unless that guy is manually spamming you).

    Readers concerned about Search Engines, will start comment on your blog (which is quite an advantage in itself)

  14. admin says on February 28, 2007 at 10:27 pm

    Agreed with thilak..this plugin won’t increase the rate of incoming spams(from my observation)..as long as you have akismet or spam karma installed, you don’t have to be worried about the spams

  15. Ahmad uzair says on March 1, 2007 at 8:06 am

    i see beside the Big RSS image there,the recent post,what plugin did you use?Look very nice..

  16. admin says on March 1, 2007 at 8:13 am

    You can get the plugin from this Kingofwww I will write about this plugin in my next post.

  17. Ahmad Uzair says on March 1, 2007 at 11:54 am

    thanks eches.i already use it.

  18. Inspired says on March 27, 2007 at 2:07 am

    Good move. I think it’s about time you do this..
    I’ll do it with my blog when I start getting a huge number of comments like yours.

  19. Norman says on February 27, 2008 at 12:33 am

    Thanks a lot for this information, that what i was looking for to do in my blog but, I didn’t know what was the term for it. Well now i know and thanks for the tips.

  20. Nihar says on June 2, 2008 at 5:15 pm

    Hey,

    This plugin is good. I will install it right away.

    Do you know comment luv plugin? Read here.

    BTW my site has PR2. would like to do link exchange with you.

    Let me know.

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