Comments on: WordPress Wednesday: Hot 2.1 Plugins and Themes, Contests, Challenges, and NoFollow

By: Digital Slices from My Life » Bye bye to NOFOLLOW on this Blog!

Digital Slices from My Life » Bye bye to NOFOLLOW on this Blog! — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 06:44:32 +0000

[...] Respected WordPress blogger agrees nofollow is dead [...]

By: Ultimate List of DoFollow Plugins - Banish Nofollow From Comments and Trackbacks | Andy Beard - Niche Marketing

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:14:26 +0000

[...] Don't Follow – This plugin allows you to selectively add nofollow to links in your comments simple by adding /dontfollow to the end of the URL – I am not sure how nicely it plays with other nofollow plugins as I would assume it would have to have a lower priority so that it adds nofollow after any other plugin has removed it. (thanks Lorelle) [...]

By: Should Do You Announce Upgrades On Your Blog? at The Blog Herald

Should Do You Announce Upgrades On Your Blog? at The Blog Herald — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:04:31 +0000

[...] While it has been proven that the nofollow attribute in links doesn’t work to stop comment spammers, I believe that Google’s web crawler still recognizes it, though other search engines don’t. That trackback link in WordPress blogs, be it the official WordPress site blogs or all WordPress blogs, carries little credit back to you unless they have turned off the nofollow. WordPress hasn’t. Yet. And even if they do, don’t expect much credit from their site in a trackback. Google considers a lot more than incoming and outgoing links. Have you taken that into account? [...]

By: What Will Stop Comment Spam? at The Blog Herald

What Will Stop Comment Spam? at The Blog Herald — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:51:08 +0000

[...] As many serious bloggers started realizing that their blog comments were also being penalized along, grouped as they were with evil comment spammers, a small backlash ensued. Protesting against the nofollow, the No NoFollow group and other bloggers spread the word on the SEO-killing aspect of the nofollow and encouraged bloggers to stop using nofollow. No nofollow WordPress Plugins that removes the nofollow from WordPress blog comments started appearing, as well as WordPress Plugins to include nofollow. [...]

By: Michael Vu

Michael Vu — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:44:20 +0000

what a great post!

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:56:28 +0000

Glad to know I have a fan. ;-)

Don’t forget, engtech, you write up good stuff on how you did the goodies on WordPress.com (step-by-step like for a seven year old – me), and you’ll be included here. I’ve been begging! Do I have to slobber, too. ;-)

By: engtech

engtech — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:36:57 +0000

I love this weekly series, Lorelle.

By: HART (1-800-HART)

HART (1-800-HART) — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:37:54 +0000

I think my head exploded when I read that there is a new upgrade version 2.1.1 available. I thought I was safe until April. I’ve still only managed to update 27 of my 40 blogs .. I hate to upgrade those 27 all over again. Geesh. They need an automatic installer of updated files.

By: Alpesh Nakar

Alpesh Nakar — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:41:50 +0000

Hi Lorelle,

Thanks for the honour and mention. How to Convert a Non-Widget to Widget Ready WordPress Theme”.

On a side note, I did have a great article on how to fight spam on a WordPress blog.
My spam moderation is down to ZERO!

I would love to hear Mark’s comment on the new plugin.

Thank you so much!

By: robwatts

robwatts — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:35:09 +0000

Hey Lorelle no offence intended! Its very clear to see you are not one of us guys ;) Was just speaking in the vernacular :D.

Ive carped and dissented in various places on this very topic intermitently here and there for some time. Funny thing is, it wasn’t really until I started blogging that I thought ‘hang on a minute’ this sucks! Hence the subsequent removal. its good to see the ground reverting though, people are armed with a whole bunch of tools they never had prior, akismet, captchas, trackback mod options etc.

Fingers crossed we shall eventually see a WP rollout with nofollow off by default. :)

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:49:48 +0000

I’m not one of “you guys” ;-) , but I do know that there is a lot of discussion around this issue and I, like you, wait to see what they will do with the next version of WordPress.

Remember, this was put in originally at Google request. It didn’t work. It didn’t work on two fronts. First, it didn’t stop comment spammers. Second, it didn’t stop search engines from following the links. People are wanting their “comment link juice” back, but folks, you’ve had it for a long time even with the nofollow. Google ain’t the only search engine out there.

By: robwatts

robwatts — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:44:40 +0000

Hi Lorelle nice write up. Always good to read soemone talking about nofollow in the right vein :D

Do you guys intend to remove it too?

By: Devin

Devin — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:22:23 +0000

* Tips his hat.

By: Santosh

Santosh — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:46:10 +0000

Gr8! What a find, I was going through the websites that were linking to my blog and I found this! I’m really happy I found it, you helped me out providing so many links!

Thanks especially for the subscribe-to plugin – the darn thing had been causing a LOT of mischief with my Ajax inline comments.

-Santosh