Thursday, January 1, 2009

You Comment I Follow

Today I read a number of blogs about a movement to remove standard attributes that Google puts in Blogger to prevent indexing for those who comment on your site.

After reading a number of posts and stories, with a most excellent one at Blogger Buster, I have removed all occurrences of rel="nofollow" from my template. Per Blogger Buster, "this means that your backlinks, and links in your comments will now be indexed by the three major search engines when they spider this blog". Tips 4 Blogspot commented that "only the author nofollow hack works". You can read more here.

Blogger Buster notes that Randa Clay created some badges for use on your blog to show that you support this policy. As I needed a smaller badge of 88*32, I have modified Randa's badge and share it here so others can feel free to use it.

Randa's standard logo

is here.

The html code for my modified badge

(on the lower right of my blog) is:

<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 88px; height: 32px;">

<div style="margin: 2px 2px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0); float: right; width: 84px; height: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 9px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; padding-top: 1px; text-align: center;">
U COMMENT
</div>

<div style="margin: 2px; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); float: right; width: 84px; height: 12px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 9px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; padding-top: 1px; text-align: center;">
I FOLLOW
</div>

</div>

46 comments:

Anonymous said...

nice work

Anonymous said...

nice work

Anonymous said...

That is a nice badge. I used to have one similar to that in my sidebar at Karlonia.com. I removed it a few months ago to avoid getting too much spam, but my blog is still DoFollow for comments.

Impacted Customer said...

Karlonia - thanks for the comment and appreciate the heads up on spam.

Anonymous said...

i used do follow badge and sure, myblog 2, here is link dofollow Blogger Trick

Anonymous said...

Welcome to the group!

You need to make a clarification on your post however. The hack to remove Nofollow only works on the Author link. Nofollow links in the body of the comment itself, cannot be removed.

Impacted Customer said...

Tips 4 Blogspot - thanks for the clarification

Josh said...

Isn’t there a big risk in doing a nofollow / dofollow blog. I mean, how long will it really take for Google to notice this and issue penalties for such un-natural commenting and linking?

News Updates said...

By enabling doFollow you have done a nice job friend.

Preinstalled Scripts said...

Hi, its nice to see one more supporting the do follow movement. I can't understand why many of them still stick to no follow when there is no reason to do so except to stop spam which can be done by many other means. Do follow not only encourages the commentators to comment on the blog but also spreads the link juice.

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I like your dessison to make this blog dofollow

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Very good movement from no follow to dofollow and this will motivate the others to turn their blogs into dofollow. Really appreciative effort

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Welcome to the Do follow Community. Think its time to change my blog as well and allow my blog have Do follow relationship.

Thanks and Regards
Gemma

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DoFollow Blog List said...

Hi I found your site from a comment you left at Social Web Tools.

I have a dofollow blog list that has 550+ blogs on it and will be adding your blog to my list in 3 weeks. I only add around 25 each week and you are on my 3rd list.

If you don't want to be included just let me know and I can remove you before you get listed... or after it doesn't matter.

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Jenny said...

I tried to remove nofollow on my blogger blog, but it didn’t work. I delete both of the nofollow mentions in the HTML and saved the template, but I keep getting nofollow tags for HREF inclusions in my comments. I would appreciate if anyone would help me with the solution?

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Nilesh Shukla said...

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Thanks,
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Split System said...

As we all know, no-follow comments are means of preventing spammers. But the only thing in my mind that's confusing is that what's the use of moderation if the link will just going to be no-follow? I mean, when you moderate you should read and approve only related comments right? So the spammers will still be prevented. Correct me if I'm wrong.
And to all the spammers out there, don't just comment for the sake of backlinks, you need to relate it to the topic otherwise your effort in commenting will be of no use. The links you insert has no problem but the essence of your comment does a big deal.

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