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What is "nofollow" and why you should disable it

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.

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 placed. 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 say 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 does "Nofollow" really mean? Google started out this controversy. They noticed that spammers are busy commenting on blogs so that they could a lot of back links (Take note that back links help boost a blog or website's search engine ranking) To prevent spammers from manipulating the search engine rankings, and to eventually stop spamming, Google started to implement the "nofollow" policy when it comes to comments. This move then became popular with other search engines.

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."

Considering that "nofollow"has no effect, it makes sense to disable it. (This is enabled by default) You are blog is better off being protected by activating spam filters. Instead of doing the blogging community something good, what "no-follow" doesis that it punishes the commentor with legitimate and sensible comments. One blogger said it right, "PUNISH SPAMMERS, NOT BLOGGERS."

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