I recently began using the “DoFollow” WordPress plugin from Kimmo Suominen in order to combat the ongoing battle with search engines and the new “no follow” tag being attached to all comment links in most blogging platforms. What exactly does this “no follow” tag do? It essentially marks all links that are placed within comments as a “Dead End” and will pretty much scream out to all search engines to ignore me and don’t count me towards increasing my blog/site strength. Implementation for this tag began in early 2005, of course by Google, in order to defend their algorithm against the thousands of spammers out there, placing endless amounts of links all over blogs and blog comments in order to increase their page strength and entice more people to visit their site by being placed higher in one of the many search engines.

The real reason why this was put into play, was because there are thousands of “ghost town” blogs out there, just collecting spam links and helping the spammer, but we are the ones taking the big hit. So, while it doesn’t necessarily “help” the blogger to remove this tag, it may entice users to comment on your blog more often, just knowing that the “no follow” tag is removed. So, I’ve decided to join this movement, by placing their unofficial mascot, just above my “Top Commentators” section, where it simply states “U Comment -> I Follow”. All comments here on out will count towards your blog, your links and your page rank.

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