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Reasons Against NoFollow Comments On Your Website?

By: Keith R Lunt

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Why would someone want to do what I have done and do away with the nofollow from comment links? Surely it is there for safety? Worse still, why advertise the fact?

Well in reality, getting rid of the nofollow link from a weblog comment is not as daft as it sounds. Yes, it is opening up to all kinds of spam, but that is why we must look at these comments manually.

What are the advantages to not nofollowing?

The immediately apparent advantages are to the visitors that are leaving comments. Out of the blue they get two benefits to leaving comments on related posts.

First, someone else reading that post may read the comment and if they are interested, click on the link to go to their weblog. This in itself is a remarkable boost and I have seen visitors arriving on my websites through these links.

But secondly, since the nofollow is deleted, there is also a tiny search engine advantage. If there are not too loads of comments per page and the page has any sort of Page Rank, then that is being shared amongst those commenting. As long as all spam comments are manually removed then the selection of comments should represent merely good, honest visitors.

Yes, some of these are commenting just for the sake of the link, but as long as the comment passes the manual checks, this is fine with me. If they add to the chat, tell me how they happened upon the post or whatsoever then there is some positive explanation for their comment and I am happy to give them the benefit.

And this is where the advantage to the website owner comes in. By making the comments more valuable to web site owners whilst being particular as to which are accepted, out of the blue more visitors are coming in excess of to the weblog, reading the posts and then making useful comments.

See the big advantage? More readers! And where do these readers come from? Well there are ample of lists of "dofollow" websites to get included in. Once I have tidied this site a little, I'll ask a few visitors to add me to their do follow lists, then visitors looking to place relevant comments will find the web site.

The disadvantages.

As my mum would say, every silver lining has a cloud!

Yes, there are some disadvantages. Get well known and the amount of spam comments arriving on the blog might be huge. But that is why you have to be firm and delete (before they are published / approved) every spam comment. Leave merely those in place that are fitting, add to the post and are useful.

Close comments on older posts to prevent too lots of spam bots getting hold of your site and be certain that Akismet is running to protect you from the worst of it all.

Is there a search engine risk?

Some people worry that having comments with no nofollow will lessen your own Page Rank. I do not deem that to be true. Why?

Well in my exploration the formula for inheriting Page Rank always looks at external and internal pages separately. It counts the number of external sites linked per page and shares the Page Rank there and probably then does the same for internal pages.

Plus, if monitored and checked, then this is what search engines desire to see. Conversations taking place on a matter. So why punish this?

Feel free to browse the website and leave a suitable comment on any post and if you also trust in nofollowing, let me know so I could visit your website!

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By Keith Lunt, who offers website design in Formby. If you want to know more, call into the marketing blog, where you can leave a non-nofollowed link!

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