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Is not "nofollow" a boon or a bane ?
Zigfred Diaz
Sometimes I do some blog hopping and I find a lot of good blogs out there. So I try to follow what they are doing in the hope of increasing my money from blogging. Lately I have noticed a lot of "U Comment I follow" sign. It is only now that I have discovered what they really meant.
"U Comment I follow" basically means is that if you place a comment in a blog whcih bears such sign, the search engines will follow the links placed by the commentor resulting in a back link to the commentor's blog.
Some search engines (like google) say they do not follow the links in the comments. However a test done has revealed otherwise. Others (like yahoo, msn etc.) say they treat the links as if it is any other link. But no matter what, disabling the "No follow" will both be of mutual benefit to the blogger and the visitors of the site.
So what is this "No follow" nonsense? Well it all started out with Google. They figured out that a lot of sites has been getting back links through spam comments made on blogs. (Remember that back links help boost a sites ranking in the search engines) So in order to avoid that situation and hopefully also curb or even stop spamming, Google implemented a "no follow" policy when it comes to comments. Other search engines soon followed.
Did they succeed ? Well spammers still spam. In fact the spam problem is much worse now than ever before. Word Press founder Matt Mullenweg has this to say about the failure of "No follow" - "In theory this should work perfectly, but in practice although all major blogging tools did this two years ago and comment and trackback spam is still 100 times worse now. In hindsight, I don't think nofollow had much of an effect, though I'm still glad we tried it."
So why should you continue to allow "no-follow" after all, it has no effect after. (This is enabled by default) You are better off protecting your blog by activating spam filters. The adverse effect of "no-follow" is that it punishes the commentor with legitimate and sensible comments. As one blogger puts it so nicely, "PUNISH SPAMMERS, NOT BLOGGERS."
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