As a Blogger it is a good idea to hop on board the DoFollow movement. Because Blogger and WorPress come with nofollow built in you will have to do a little work (it’s easy work) to change your blog to DoFollow.
Google Blogger users:
Go into your Blogger back office then;
* Click on Layout .
* Click on the Edit HTML .
* Check the “Expand Widget Templates Field” upper right hand corner of the HTML.
* Press CTRL+F and a search box will appear then do a search for rel=”nofollow”
attribute.
* Delete and remove all instances of rel=”nofollow” from the template code.
This will make your Blog a DoFollow Blogger Blog.
The next step and a very important one. Set your blog comments to require your approval, moderation before posting to your Blog. This will allow you to delete all spam before it appears.
If you are a WordPress user:
Download this PlugIn from Kimmo Suominen, WP DoFollow PlugIn and install it in your plugins.
To kill most of the Spam make sure you have installed Askimet and set your comments to require moderation.
In my last post I mentioned being labeled as a Spamer and I’ll explain how now. Most Blogs that have good page rank and page views use Askimet. If a comment is found to be Spam the Blog owner can and will in most cases label it as Spam. This will cause your URL and IP to be put in Askimets data base and all of your future comments will be caught and tagged Spam. You will not be able to use that website or the same IP to comment with from that point on.
July 5th, 2008 at 10:19 am
Hi Steve,
Thanks for the tip about Blogger.com. I’m a great believer in giving people a reward for posting, and getting rid of nofollow is a good way to do that.
David Hurley
http://grasp-the-nettle.com
July 7th, 2008 at 1:03 am
Hi Steve,
Nice tips on getting rid of the NoFollow attributes for blog comments. I have down loaded the wordpress plug in and installed it.
Thanks
William Hutchinson
HutchesAffiliateMarketing.com
July 8th, 2008 at 12:54 am
Hi Steve,
Once again your have delivered a very informative blog article. I had no knowledge before about this dofollow stuff and with make changes to my blog right away. Thank-you.
July 9th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Hi Steve,
Thanx for the info and directions on how to procede with the dofollow attributes for Wordpress. I am going to try to install it on my blog and see what happens.
Thanks again,
Jim
Searching For Online Income?
July 9th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
Hi, Stephen:
Thanks for this info on the DoFollow/NoFollow issue. Since you first mentioned it in one of the online forums, I have been paying closer attention and I really appreciate the insight and information you have been providing.
To your other loyal readers here, I just want to say that I see Stephen around in other Internet Marketing circles and he is definitely one of the leaders who sets a good example for others.
Thanks, Stephen!
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