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WordPress Plugin: DoFollow

Posted by Jason on Friday, May 11th 2007

11
May

Yes, I love plugins. I admit it.

This one is the dofollow plugin. I was actually looking all around my admin page looking for a way to turn of the nofollow tag. I got bored so I took a break to read some blogs and Jon Lee had a new post mentioning the plugin needed to do exactly that. Wasn’t that nice of him?

Basically I wanted a way to give back to people who drop off a comment or two. So as of right now all links in comments will be followed. Now I know you all want to do the same thing for your blog right? Spread the link love?

Well, here is a page to download a very simple plugin. All you do is download, install it and activate it. Nothing more to do and the nofollow is removed. Just make sure you have akismet turned on first so you don’t get bombarded once people find out. If you would like more information or a list of different plugins, take a look at Jon’s post.

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13 Comments Already

Amy Said,

May 11th, 2007 @10:40 am

Hey Jason, what is the nofollow tag? Can you explain it for us non-techy people?

Rinsem Said,

May 11th, 2007 @11:41 am

I’ve been using DoFollow for sometime now and participated in all of the hype surrounding it by leaving comments on posts like this. I think it does build more of a community as encourages comments which is what we all like to see right?

Jason Said,

May 11th, 2007 @2:24 pm

Basically, when you have nofollow, spiders will not follow that link so it does not count in the search engines.

So before, if someone left a comment with a link, google would ingore it. It would only send traffic from the people who actually clicked on it.

Now, with the dofollow plugin, search engines will take these links into consideration. It’s just for showing more link love to the rest of the community.

Court Said,

May 11th, 2007 @2:57 pm

This plugin is a great plugin. It really rewards the readers who provide value to our blogs. I joined the movement and have embraced it fully. I think it’s only fair.

PatchLog - remove nofollow Said,

May 11th, 2007 @3:54 pm

I’m using a similar plugin on my blog. Funny thing, the the nofollow thing was invented by google, there was a plugin for wordpress that inserted this into links, now we use one that removes it.

Andy Beard Said,

May 11th, 2007 @7:22 pm

Welcome to the dofollow community on Bumpzee.

I would suggest only having your blogroll and top commenters on the front page, and to work on increasing the number of internal links on your single pages.

Also I have a hacked version of sociable that adds nofollow to the links, as those links don’t link to any content, just a form.

Jason Said,

May 12th, 2007 @1:11 pm

That would be good, where can I get it from?

Andy Beard Said,

May 12th, 2007 @1:25 pm

Linked through to my Wordpress Plugin hacks.

Brent Said,

July 18th, 2007 @9:16 am

Wow this dofollow sounds great! Is there any plug-in that will eliminate nofollow on blogger?

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Wordpress SEO Said,

November 13th, 2008 @3:50 pm

jyse.com dofollow search engine

Tim Bellardita Said,

January 20th, 2010 @7:26 pm

I think that there should be no ‘nofollow’ switches for search engines. From what I understand, Yahoo completely ignores this and just takes the link anyways.