you comment, Google will follow

I have decided to join the U Comment, I Follow movement that’s been going on for quite a while now. It means that the comments you leave here at Sandier Pastures will now be “followed” by search engine spiders.

What the nofollow is all about

The main point of the U Comment, I Follow is to discard the nofollow tag in the comments. The nofollow tag is embedded automatically in the comments for the purpose of reducing spam comments but it seems that it doesn’t work or work only to a minimum. What it does it to tell Google and other search engines not to follow links in the comments. That means, when someone posts a comment here, that’s it, dead end, commenters don’t get any Google juice.

Why I decided to remove it

First, it has been known not to work efficiently on spam. I have another plugin I am using another plugin to catch spam comments, so that should take care of it. Then by removing the nofollow tag in the comments, comments left here in my site can get a link love.

Getting it done 

Depending on your blog platform, you can install a plugin to turn off the “nofollow” on blog comments. For Wordpress users, you can download the plugin here.

Randa Clay explains it better so go check out her site. You can also download a cool button to display in your blog to show the blogosphere that you are participating in this some sort of “movement”.