I doubt seriously that not nearly as many people reading gardening, fishing, golf or relationship blogs will care whether a blog is dofollow or nofollow. That’s because only a lot less readers interested in these subjects have their own blogs.

But on a whole, even on subjects where people DO care about dofollow vs. nofollow, it would be good policy to have a dofollow blog in order to promote interaction. If the spammers want to spam, who cares. Just skip their self-promoting comments.

I think you may be skewing the population sampled by having a nofollow blog. People who wouldn’t comment on a nofollow are hardly likely to comment!

Personally I quite like anchor text on comments. It lets me know if their site is likely to be of interest to me. I really like keywordluv for this, which also lets you see the person’s name.

And regarding putting dofollow on my own blog… well, I’m still screwing up the courage to upgrade to the latest WordPress version which, having read your post on that issue, I know I should really do soon.

linkjuice is not only pagerank – and nofollow = no linkjuice –
try it out: a little website and all backlinks are with nofollow. ;)
do not use google toolbar for this experiment -this is necessary

…. and try to find a site of this website by google

two months ago I’ve tested this out: I haven’t find any indexed page, now I’ll try it again

in Europe Google is the leader:
last month I have 20 visitors from Yahoo – 35 from Altavista , ~21K from Google, and ~ 17K type- in- user or from other websites

Incoming links all dofollow – outgoing links ~50% nofollow – and the website has a very good /modern seo :-).

I’m an old seo – I spent dofollow links – I write comments at nofollow blogs ( but most of the time on english blogs) – content is written by myself (!) ;-)

kindly regards
Monika

we violate the intention of internet with nofollow per default – I have every of my blogs with dofollow – I delete seo spam – less than 2 minutes per day –

comments are content for a website – we can’t close our eyes to realize that content is the king in www.
maybe you hate seos – but to have much comments with nofollow is seo in pure culture – you can’t be a better seo blogger ;)

love pings and trackbacks but the backlink is nofollow ;) so blogherald and all wordpress.com blogs are better seos than I – because I use dofollow …

to say : I hate seos so I have nofollow is an antagonism – but this is yours not mine ;)
regards
Monika

Again, since nofollow doesn’t work and dofollow is a made up thing that doesn’t matter much, this really isn’t much of an issue except psychologically. That’s the part that is fascinating. :D It’s a like used-car-salesman promotion. You only think you are getting more bang for your buck.

As it should be. Wish more people had that thought. :D

Ah, another believer in the dofollow mythology. Since nofollow is not accepted by any search engine but Google, and Google doesn’t practice what it preaches, you can add nofollow and dofollow (there is no such thing for search engines, by the way) as much as you want and nothing will happen.

There are much better ways to encourage and build a blog community. Try things that actually are real and work. :D