Hey Michele, I've become really interested in this move to abandon nofollow, as I honestly think that nofollowing comments on a blog makes quite a lot of sense...
I'm curious about your 'as they should' comment...
With Google being the King of search engines, and the source of a lot of traffic for many sites, surely it makes sense to take into account the way they interpret the interweb...
If Google sees a link on a site as a positive vote for that site, does it not stand to reason that those links should be controlled by the author of the page, rather than allowing anyone to add a link?
To my mind there are also issues around controlling the number of outbound links and the relevancy and quality of the sites they link to...
When still using Wordpress, I found moderating comments to be an enormous amount of work (even with captchas and so on), so I often let some slip through.
Blogger seems to handle this better, but nofollows automatically; I THINK that this can be changed in the template, but not really too bothered about it.
I think that this is such a great idea because there is so much interaction that has resulted because of it. I know that a lot of people were concerned about spamming, but that will always be an issue. I think it is important to provide true bloggers with many opportunities to build traffic. How has this benefited you so far?
I more or less refuse to play the whole nofollow game, We just moderate our comments and share the link love. Obvious spam is very easy to spot. As a rule I only post on boards and blogs that do the same.
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Hey Michele, I've become really interested in this move to abandon nofollow, as I honestly think that nofollowing comments on a blog makes quite a lot of sense...
I'm curious about your 'as they should' comment...
With Google being the King of search engines, and the source of a lot of traffic for many sites, surely it makes sense to take into account the way they interpret the interweb...
If Google sees a link on a site as a positive vote for that site, does it not stand to reason that those links should be controlled by the author of the page, rather than allowing anyone to add a link?
To my mind there are also issues around controlling the number of outbound links and the relevancy and quality of the sites they link to...
Thoughts?
ps - thanks for the link :D
Frank
Nofollowing comments on blogs makes zero sense unless you are allowing sploggers and other junk to appear in your comments.
If you moderate your comments properly there is no reason why you cannot allow people to gain some benefit from their comments
Michele
When still using Wordpress, I found moderating comments to be an enormous amount of work (even with captchas and so on), so I often let some slip through.
Blogger seems to handle this better, but nofollows automatically; I THINK that this can be changed in the template, but not really too bothered about it.
I think that this is such a great idea because there is so much interaction that has resulted because of it. I know that a lot of people were concerned about spamming, but that will always be an issue. I think it is important to provide true bloggers with many opportunities to build traffic. How has this benefited you so far?
I more or less refuse to play the whole nofollow game, We just moderate our comments and share the link love. Obvious spam is very easy to spot. As a rule I only post on boards and blogs that do the same.