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.

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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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28 Comments

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  1. google » you comment, Google will follow Says:

    [...] EconLog wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptWhat 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 … [...]

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  3. Phil Says:

    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!

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  5. Lotus Carroll Says:

    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!

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  7. Maximus Says:

    I would like to see a continuation of the topic

    Maximus’s last blog post..Nelly Furtado has sparked rumours she has secretly married.

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  9. unTECHy Says:

    It seems like nearly all “I follow” blogs on the web are PR0 or PR ‘n/a’.

    It’s hard to find anyone with a PR1+ that follows. As a fellow follower, I applaud you for following.

    unTECHy’s last blog post..Money from Blogging

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