Why you should disable the “nofollow
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’ve discovered what they really meant.
What the “U Comment I follow” sign basically means is that if you place a comment in this blog, hopefully the search engines will follow the author links, or the links on the comments that you put. This will will result in the commenter hopefully getting a back link as a result of his comments.
There are search engines (Like Google) who alleged that they do not follow the links in the comments. Some state that this is not true because of a test done. Other less popular search engines (like yahoo, msn etc.) say they treat the links as if it is any other link. No matter what they say, one thing is clear, disabling the “No follow” will both be advantagous to the owner of the blog and the commentor.
So what really does “nofollow” mean ? Google orchestrated this scheme. They observed that spammers are putting up spam comments in a lot of blogs in the hope of getting a lot of back links. (Note that back links help boost ranking in the search engines) To remedy this situation and to aend spamming, Google enforced a “no follow” policy when it comes to comments. This was then followed by other search engines.
The massive question is did they succeed ? Unfortunately the answer is no. In fact spamming in websites and blogs are a much more more massive problem today than ever before. Spammers still spam. Word Press founder Matt Mullenweg made a terrific comment on this subject “In theory this should work perfectly, but in practice even though 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.”
With that in mind it makes no sense to continue to grant “nofollow” taking into account that it has no effect. (This is enabled by default) Spam filters are much more superior in doing the job than continuing to grant “nofollow”. Sadly, “no-follow” punishes the commentor with legitimate and sensible comments. As one blogger nicely states it “PUNISH SPAMMERS, NOT BLOGGERS.”
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