I have just changed this site so that by default all approved comments provide live followed links back to your website once you have left 3 comments.
Usually sites based on WordPress add a “nofollow” tag to all comment links. This prevents search engines from counting the link for the purposes of ranking/relevance. I do not think that this is fair! If you have taken the time to write valid comments then I think that you deserve a live link!
Please remember that all comments have to be approved by me, and that comments unsympathetic to people with debt problems will never be approved.
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May 3rd, 2009 at 9:15 am
Hi Neil, my name is Jared McMorris, I run the wealth-ed website for my father. This is very interesting to me, I knew about the nofollow markup in wordpress and have been submitting our website to dofollow blog carnivals. I am interested in disabling nofollow on our website as well, is this a plugin that you are using? Thanks!
May 3rd, 2009 at 9:39 am
Hi Jared
Thanks for visiting! Yes, I’m using the plugin Lucia’s Linky Love. Don’t be fooled by the slightly naff name, this is a powerful plugin that enables you to reward regular commentators and not one-off spammers. Visit the info/download page – http://money.bigbucksblogger.c.....t-spammers
I have not had any problems using it – works a treat!
Good luck
Neil
May 10th, 2009 at 10:39 am
I think it’s a nice thing to have do follows on your commentors link. Given something back to those who contribute to the blog. As long as a blog is not over-spammed it should have dofollow enabled. Most of the people commenting has a website or blog with relevant content to the post they comment on anyway:)