By default, WordPress blogs use a rel=”nofollow” attribute, so when you read of Do Follow Blogs, these are blogs that have used a plugin that removes the nofollow attribute. Comments then that contain links back to the poster count as backlinks for their sites.

To the Search Engines

These links then are simply links. It’s up to the search engines rather to follow that link and pass value to the poster’s site. There is no “do follow” attribute to instruct a search engine that these links must be followed or assigned value. Why DoFollow versus NoFollow? The NoFollow attribute was introduced in 2005 to discourage comment spam.

Quality Backlinks

To a large segment of SEO experts, a quality backlink is a one way incoming link from a relevant (respected) site with higher PR. It’s a link you earn via hosting a great site that delivers useful information (the stuff that people want to link to). These are also known as natural (real) links. The theory is that more natural links help boost your site’s popularity and Page Rank.

A Word of Caution

Blog spam is rampant, especially for Do Follow blogs. There are some “do follow” plugins that allow you to set how many comments a visitor needs to leave (with the same domain URL and/or email address) before their comment link will follow.

Did No Follow work as planned? Not in my world! We still receive plenty of blog spam, but I personally moderate all comments to counter that.

My Recommendation

• Use a Do Follow plugin for your WordPress blog if you enable comments
• Do not add the “NoFollow” attribute to inbound links.
• Only add the ‘NoFollow” attribute to outbound links in widgets like Subscribe or Bookmark Me.

To your success

- Steve

I think Google should reconsider the way they handle "nofollow" attribute and link exchanges?

Dofollow is not a tag, its an attribute you simply don’t nofollow a link if you want it be dofollowed. A Dofollow link is a link crawlable by search engine.
Nofollow links may be used in for untrusted content or paid links

Nofollow tag help in protecting PR drain, I think it is usefull for spam control and manipulations.

The tips are nice and I guess Google indeed counts even the no followed links but they simply will never pass the PageRank scores and juice to the recipients. Blog comments are better to be done with moderation since even the no followed forums could sometimes get filled with so many advertisements and some editions might be really required.

I'm not following how you're linking advertisements with doing blog comments in moderation.

I have seen some websites that having nofollow blog comment lback links only but still ranking high for competitive keywords.

Do-follow and no-follow concept works only with Google and no other search engine takes these things into consideration. for yahoo, bing, the link whether no-follow or do-follow doesn't cause any influence. Its just a normal backlink considered to judge the value of the website.

No-follow links are not crawled by Google and so don't offer any link value, no value in SEO.

These rankings might not be due to those comments. Sometimes commenting is also done just as a part of mass SEO practice for other search engines, but if the links are no-followed, they can be no way a reason for the rankings.

I read one post regarding Nofollow links in Google written by Matt Cutts. Hope it will be useful.

Thanks for the link. I didn't have time to read every post. That thread goes on forever. Maybe later today if I find some time.

As simple no follow is an attribute of HTML anchor tag which indicates search engine that the linked page need not to be followed. The more you get links for your site into other sites the more Google read your page and your site get better position in search result. But, if any link is no followed than search engine don't read that linked page.For good result in search engine you need lots quality links. But, if any link include rel="no follow" than that link have no value at all since search engine do not follow that and do not count that in your site's link popularity.

A suggestion for blog owners, regarding the follow issue.

1) Tell your readers what kind of comments you welcome on your blog.

2) When they deliver what you want, reward them with DoFollow links. Remember, they could be writing on their blog instead of yours.

3) When they don't deliver comments that meet your standard, delete their comment.

Carrot and stick.

The big problem on blogs, imho, is not spam, but lazy poorly written comments that clog the reading experience with low quality content. Imho, worry about that.

If you don't have time to read and moderate comments on your blog, don't allow any comments.

Just another way to look at it, that's all.

It's so much simpler to run a do-follow plug-in and moderate the comments, and blacklist IPs that are obviously spamming. If I see good comments, but they're coming from the same IP under different user names, those are deleted as spam.

Yes, that's what I was trying to say, thanks for the help.

We want the best writers to add content to our sites, right? Why should the best writers spend time adding content to our blog, instead of theirs, if we're unwilling to give anything back in return?

This forum is dofollow. Thank you admins. Let's all try to reward this generosity by sharing the best posts we are capable of.