Most Wordpress blogs these days use nofollow tags – a Google promoted device to make a vague attempt at stopping link spam. i think it may have also dampened the desire to debate on blogs though. The debates are now being dragged into Facebook groups or back behind walled gardens at Google’s expense as well as the public’s.
What do you think? nofollow free – good idea or bad?
Regardless of your opinion, here’s how to eliminate nofollows in your comments:
I am experimenting with two plugins to do this “Nofollowfree” and “Nofollowcasebycase“. Not sure which is the better yet. To install a plugin to Wordpress you really need FTP access to your Wordpress site. You download the plugin, and then unzip it (Don’t try and put a zipped file onto the server. It doesn’t work). The unzipped contents should, themselves be in a directory and need to be put in the wp-content/plugins directory on the server. For some people, that will be /public_html/wp-content/plugins.
That’s not it though. You then need to activate the plugin from within Wordpress. Log into the /wp-admin area and click on “plugins” on the far right of the screen to do this.
Dixon.
Now I’m going to have to work late! Thanks Brett.
I think the do follow is a good way to get more comments.
It’s like giving more back to the visitors.