No More NoFollowed Comments!

Filed in Blogging, Link Building, Marketing Tips on Apr.27, 2010 By Keith Lunt

I have decided that, for a trial period at list, this blog will no longer nofollow writer’s links in comments!

A big step, but instead of preventing the abuse of the comments system by nofollowing links, I will be monitoring carefully every comment to every post on the website and either removing or nofollowing those that are obviously an attempt at abusing the comments.

So, all genuine looking comments will now be followed by the search engines! I’m expecting this to take a bit of work, but if successful it should be useful. But, the nofollow is remaining on links within the comment text! Only 1 link per comment, please!

Hopefully I will be able to leave this change in place indefinitely and roll it out to my other blogs, if I see benefits to this system rather than just thousands of spam comments!

Do you already remove the nofollow from comment avatars? If so, what hints and tips do you have to share? If your blog does not nofollow comments leave a mention below and I might just pop over and have a good browse of it myself. If a few people respond, I might even be tempted to make a list!

p.s. want to find more sites that don’t nofollow comments? Take a look at this page.