Comments on: Blog Basics: DoFollow or NoFollow?

By: Leora Wenger

Leora Wenger — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:22:54 +0000

So (I think what you are saying is) for example when you first set up WordPress, you could have an option to have it be nofollow or dofollow. Given that WordPress and other platforms want to keep their core as simple as possible, I think the ability to do dofollow by plugin is fine with me.

By: Nathan Rodriguez

Nathan Rodriguez — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:34:55 +0000

I think blog platforms should give users a easy option to manage the follow characteristic of their blogs, and explain that on the process of setup.

By: Leora Wenger

Leora Wenger — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:29:06 +0000

Dan, thanks for the clarification.

By: Dan.

Dan. — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:49:26 +0000

Yep works.
I think previous comment refers to; being able to put nofollow on 1 link on a page and the seo benefit would then transfer to the other links on the page. This is NOT the case now.
Keep up the good work.

By: Leora Wenger

Leora Wenger — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:50:13 +0000

“The only difference is that the nofollow links won’t pass the PageRank.”
Would you have a link that explains this in more details? Thanks!

By: SEO

SEO — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:17:57 +0000

Thanks for the explanation Leora. And in reply to your experiment… it worked on me
I’m sure you are aware but for your readers – you can no longer sculpt PageRank using nofollow – Google changed their view on that a number of months ago. So even if you have both nofollow and dofollow links on a page, the PageRank will be divided up between all the links, not just the dofollow ones. The only difference is that the nofollow links won’t pass the PageRank.

By: Hannah

Hannah — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:00:33 +0000

Thank, Leora, I missed that too!
Most serious bloggers use WP, so there is much more information and support out there. Not to mention practical tools like plugins just for bloggers. I have not come across many blogs that use Drupal.

By: Leora Wenger

Leora Wenger — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:41:05 +0000

Ah, a repeat comment from Jake! Thanks, Jake. (just for that I’m going to ask you what topics I should post about… what would you like to discuss…it seems to take me a week to come up with a good post…)

Now I realize you are asking Hannah why *she* is glad didn’t go with Drupal… I guess I will have to let her answer that one.

By: Jake | Web Journey

Jake | Web Journey — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:26:59 +0000

Just out of curiosity, why are you glad?

By: Jake | Web Journey

Jake | Web Journey — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:44:45 +0000

Hey thanks for the link and great article; educating people that Nofollow should only be used on paid links or maybe to prevent spam is important.

I remember when I started out; someone on a forum told me to use Nofollow on every link to improve my SEO!