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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”.
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Hi Grace,
Thanks for the link, it’s great to see more and more people taking nofollow out. It doesn’t help, so giving something back to your commenters is the only logical thing to do.
Thanks again!
Randa Clay really started a great movement. Commenters should be rewarded. It helps a blog grow to have more readers and more commenters. The comments expand the blog, and give the blogger new material.
I will support this movement also!
I understand, point made. Thank You
I Love your blog on google and have read many of your posts. Excellent. Keep up the good work!!!
Gotta love the effort you put into this blog
Wow – I found this through google and read several of your other posts – added ya to my G Reader, Keep up the good work. Looking forward to reading more each day. Mark
I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader.
simply amazing! i’ve bookmnakred you and will be back
Great move. You are one of the smartest bloggers on the web!
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