Who would have thought that two little words could start such a trend - or as Chris Cree remarked at Gayla’s MomGadget - a movement! That’s right, the removal of “no follow” code from comments is down right contagious.
The “no follow” link code was originally intended to deter spam comments in the sense that if the link was not followed by the search engines then there wouldn’t be any benefit to the spammers, but spam filters, moderation and plugins are doing that job these days.
The trend is now switching to “do follow” or rewarding users for commenting on your blog by giving them a link each time they do. Now that is what I call nice. If only the rest of the world would play so nicely together.
I am using the Semilogic Wordpress plugin to remove “no follow” and I know there are others.
Gayla posted a list of blogs she knows that are promoting “do follow” and sharing the link love:
- Gayla McCord of MomGadget
- Wendy Piersall of eMoms at Home
- Ben Yoskovitz of Instigator Blog
- Dawud Miracle at dmiracle.com
- Chris Cree of SuccessCREEations
- Randa Clay of Randa Clay Design
- Char Polanosky of Essential Keystrokes (that’s me)
- Chris Garrett of chrisg.com
- Andy Beard of AndyBeard.eu
- David Paul Robinson of davidpaulrobinson.com
- Lars-Christian of Lars-Christian.com
- Char Polanosky of Casual Keystrokes (that’s me, too)
- David Airey of Creative Design
- Ponn Sabra of Empower Women Now
- Jason of Webomatica
- Michelle of Scribbit
- Mario of MariosAlexandrou.com
- Robert Hruzek of Middle Zone Musings
- Lisa Mills of Work at Home Revolution
- Aaron Potts of Today is That Day
- Heather of Home Ec 101
- Laura Spencer of Writing Thoughts
- Steve James of Babblz and Fresh Yields
- KWiz of Wisdom Walking
- Phil Nash of Unintentionally Blank
- Doris of Home Office Women, Live Life Organics and Your Health, DorisGoesShopping, and Doris Chua
- Lillie Ammann of A Writer’s Words, An Editor’s Eye
- Cass at CassKnits
- Bob Meets World
- Zigire
- Your Name Here
Are you generous with your links? Have you joined the “do follow” movement? If so, let us know so we can add you to the list!
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33 Comments»
Doris
10. April 2007 | 16:41 hHey Char.. how do we know if we are having the ‘do follow’ or no follow’ codes? I obviously like to be part of the ‘do follow’ community!
Gayla McCord
10. April 2007 | 16:56 hDoris ~
I wanted to play the “safe side” and just assumed that since I was using Wordpress and Blogger for my blogs that the nofollow was just there.
I’m not sure about Wordpress, but it was there on blogger. I was able to find a link through David’s link that lead me to the blogger fix.
As far as Wordpress - the plugin is so easy it only took 5 minutes to complete from start to finish. So it’s 5 minutes that were well spent to insure that my readers get what they deserve
Char, I got the list from David and Dawud and added to it too — it’s fun to watch it grow
Webomatica
10. April 2007 | 17:22 h*raises hand*
Nice to be in good company!
Chris Cree
10. April 2007 | 17:26 hThe villagers are getting louder with torches and pitchforks in hand. Man the barricades! Down with NoFollow!
Ponn Sabra
10. April 2007 | 18:33 hHi Char!
First time to yours and Gayla’s blogs (sorry it took so long)…but, as I shared I ‘do follow’. Don’t know how, my VA did it…techie-I-am-not.
Please add me to your list, and I will carry the convo. over at EmpowerWomenNow.com too! Sweet movement
Hugz, Ponn
Robert Hruzek
10. April 2007 | 19:47 hHi, Char! I’m with you! Um… how do I do it? :-/
Char
10. April 2007 | 21:15 hWow! I take the crew to the movies and things are hopping here!
If you have a Wordpress blog - use the Semilogic dofollow plugin. It is easy - download the file, upload the php file to your plugins directory and activate.
Jason & Ponn - I will add you now.
Robert - I’m confused - have you already removed no follow?
Marios Alexandrou
10. April 2007 | 23:30 hI joined not to long ago too. I use the LinkLove plugin which lets me determine how many comments are needed before a person’s like has the nofollow removed. In my case I set it to 2.
Char
10. April 2007 | 23:35 hI just added you Marios! Thanks for letting me know.
David Airey :: Creative Design ::
11. April 2007 | 10:19 hGreat you’ve joined the movement!
I hope all’s well with you, Char.
Doris
11. April 2007 | 14:42 hSorry Char.. I’m so *duh* with these techie stuff.. where can I get the plugin to make sure I’m on the ‘to follow’ list? for blogger and WP.
Char
11. April 2007 | 14:46 hThanks David - it is a worthy cause!
Doris - go to: http://www.semiologic.com/software/dofollow/ for the WP plugin. And here for the Blogger instructions:
http://betabloggerfordummies.blogspot.com/2007/03/remove-nofollow-attribute-on-comments.html
Randa
11. April 2007 | 15:16 hWant to tell everyone that you’ve turned off the nofollow in your comments? Check out my new “ifollow” logos- grab one for your sidebar!
http://randaclay.com/archives/the-i-follow-movement
Doris
12. April 2007 | 15:14 hOK - all my blogs are in the movement now - Please add them - thanks!!
http://www.homeofficewomen.com
http://www.dorischua.com
http://www.dorisgoshopping.com
http://www.dorischua.blogspot.com
Dawud Miracle
12. April 2007 | 16:24 hNow we’re getting a little traction. Thanks. Let’s keep thing ball moving.
Lillie Ammann
15. April 2007 | 07:30 hI’ve joined the No More No Follow movement and added the plugin to my blog as well.
Cass
15. April 2007 | 20:55 hI follow on all my blogs
I also added your Casual Keystrokes to the D List, which is a traveling list of do follow bloggers.
Homemom3
18. April 2007 | 09:58 hI’ll be adding to this list today. BTW- I added this site to a technorati train going around the net. You can read more about it on my site.
Bob
18. April 2007 | 16:42 hI Follow!
http://bobmeetsworld.com/you-comment-we-follow/
Zigire
19. April 2007 | 11:27 hI follow too
http://www.zigire.net/2007/01/09/wordpress-and-relexternal-nofollow/
Char
19. April 2007 | 15:16 hCass, Bob and Zigire - I have added you!
HomeMom3 - I’m not sure what you need to do in your template as I don’t use that platform.
Gayla McCord
19. April 2007 | 15:21 hTo remove from blogger:
http://betabloggerfordummies.blogspot.com/2007/03/remove-nofollow-attribute-on-comments.html
Feel free to let me know if you have problems locating it.
G
Lucy
24. April 2007 | 14:11 hI’m a follower too … at least I hope so. WP plug-in installed at:
http://www.free-from.com/blog
But how do I know if it’s working?
Char
24. April 2007 | 14:38 hLucy - I left you a comment - I’ll tell you later if it is working. If I see an inbound link then it is.
Manila Mom
26. April 2007 | 12:02 hGreat to hook up here. I have a DoFollow List, too, at http://manila-mom.blogspot.com/2007/04/reward-your-readers-and-do-follow.html . You might want to check out the blogs listed there, too.
Rob O.
11. May 2007 | 12:01 hI’m a little late to the party, but I finally figured out how to strip the “NoFollow” code from our Blogger templates a bit more than a week ago.
Char
11. May 2007 | 12:09 hRob - You are fashionably late! Thanks for stopping in.
Cade @ Write To Right
11. June 2007 | 23:03 hI have to say that this movement is amazing and will help out so many bloggers. I love how blogging is becoming more possible for the normal Joe and it will allow for many to gain the knowledge they need to so they can become amazing bloggers.
Cafe_Cafe
25. June 2007 | 00:01 hThanks for the tip.
Now I do follow comments on my blog.
Entretenimiento Online
Laura Lohr : My Beautiful Life
30. August 2007 | 07:09 hI do follow! Add me to the list!
mlankton
23. September 2007 | 09:07 hI keep asking people with dofollow blogs this question, and so far I’m not getting any responses. I know that with akismet and moderation spam is a non-issue. Since going dofollow, would you say that the increase in traffic and comments you gained is significant? Comment spam, minor nuisance or overwhelming flood of junk comments?
Thanks
Marios Alexandrou
23. September 2007 | 09:30 hmlankton,
I’m not seeing much of a change in comment numbers. My blog is fairly new though. I think nofollow is just one factor. If you’re not writing anything of interest to readers it isn’t going to matter what you do with your links. I, for one, will keep trying!
popcorn ninja
10. October 2007 | 13:00 hI follow links now! If you add me to the list I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks!