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Re: WordPress Nofollow SEO Plugin

John — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:13:32 -0000

A search engine may use hundreds of factors while ranking the listings where the factors themselves and the weight each carries may change continually.

Re: WordPress Nofollow SEO Plugin

jameswillisisthebest — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 17:43:53 -0000

This is my first post
just saying HI

Re: WordPress Nofollow SEO Plugin

Dave — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:25:49 -0000

Hi Paul -

I have to admit I'm curious to see what effect this nofollow experiment will have on my second Page Ranking. I have not advertised the nofollow aspect of my site outside of this one post, and an inclusion on Courtney Tuttle's dofollow list. As a result, I've encountered very few spammy comments.

I'm already happy with the amount of comments I receive, so I see it as more of a behind the scenes reward.

Of course if my Page Rank goes down, I'll probably disable the plugin for lack of a better explanation.

Re: WordPress Nofollow SEO Plugin

Paul Vallejo — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:27:07 -0000

Dave you're very brave. From an SEO point of view aren't you concerned with "Bad neighbours" etc? I was thinking about turning off the nofollow on comments on my personal blog, but until someone writes a plugin that automatically checks links, then adds nofollow to the ones that dont meet a certain criteria (ie. Page rank less than 5, page has no relevant words in it, etc) I won't be doing it. The nofollow case by case plugin is a great find, and when friends and relatives ask for help with their wordpress installs I'd happily sneak it in there as an extra for everyone else on the web willing to abuse the good nature of persons such as yourself. Either way, you get some more unique content on your page, I get a link. Everyones happy :)

Re: WordPress Nofollow SEO Plugin

Mike — Mon, 14 May 2007 13:58:56 -0000

Dave, this is pretty cool of you. I'm really torn about Google's push for the nofollow tag. It seems well-intentioned but ... I don't know. The wholesale implementation of it in Wikipedia and by default in almost every Wordpress installation seems a bit lazy and ineffective to me.

Have you seen this yet? It's a pretty interesting read on how Google, Yahoo, and About handle it.

Re: WordPress Nofollow SEO Plugin

Havabeer — Sun, 13 May 2007 19:24:49 -0000

It's definately something worthwhile I think, I'm adding it right now. I don't think the spam thing will be a big deal askimet seems to get pretty much everything and I don't mind having to delete a few manually every now and then.

Good find and thanks for sharing.

Re: WordPress Nofollow SEO Plugin

Dave — Sun, 13 May 2007 09:23:16 -0000

Good points. I've already deleted one comment which I thought was someone simply trying to get the linkback as it was so ambiguous it made no sense.

Actually, I really didn't make the change to get more comments, as I think I'm lucky enough to have some great readers so far. I did it more out of a desire to increase my traffic and/or page rank, though I guess I didn't need to make the change myself to benefit from other sites that use the Do Follow approach.

I'll keep you posted!

Re: WordPress Nofollow SEO Plugin

Timen — Sat, 12 May 2007 02:45:35 -0000

It definitely has its pros and cons. On the one hand you're encouraging more people to comment, though not everyone will know you have the plugin installed. The other hand has spammy comments in it. Let us know what your experiences are after a few weeks. I'd like to hear if you see an increase in comments / spam.

Re: WordPress Nofollow SEO Plugin

Court — Fri, 11 May 2007 22:32:41 -0000

I would be happy to add you to the list! Consider yourself added.