Why you should disable the “nofollow
There are times when I do some blog hopping so that I can follow what other bloggers have done to help increase the money earned from blogging. Lately, I have noticed the popularity of the”U Comment I follow” sign. I never understand what it meant until now.
What the “U Comment I follow” sign basically means is that if you place a comment in this blog, hopefully the search engines will follow the author links, or the links on the comments that you placed. This will will result in the commenter hopefully getting a back link as a result of his comments.
There are search engines (Like Google) who alleged that they do not follow the links in the comments. Some say that this is not true because of a test done. Other less popular search engines (like yahoo, msn etc.) say they treat the links as if it is any other link. No matter what they say, one thing is clear, disabling the “No follow” will both be advantagous to the owner of the blog and the commentor.
So what is this “No follow” nonsense? Well it all started out with Google. They figured out that a lot of sites has been getting back links through spam comments made on blogs. (Remember that back links help boost a sites ranking in the search engines) So in order to avoid that situation and hopefully also curb or even stop spamming, Google implemented a “no follow” policy when it comes to comments. Other search engines soon followed.
The big question is did they succeed ? Unfortunately the answer is no. In fact spamming in websites and blogs are a much more bigger problem today than ever before. Spammers still spam. Word Press founder Matt Mullenweg made a terrific comment on this subject “In theory this should work perfectly, but in practice although all major blogging tools did this two years ago and comment and trackback spam is still 100 times worse now. In hindsight, I don’t think nofollow had much of an effect, though I’m still glad we tried it.”
Considering that “nofollow”has no effect, it makes sense to disable it. (This is enabled by default) You are blog is better off being protected by activating spam filters. Instead of doing the blogging community something good, what “no-follow” doesis that it punishes the commentor with legitimate and sensible comments. One blogger said it right, “PUNISH SPAMMERS, NOT BLOGGERS.”
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