Remove nofollow from WordPress comments

66 thoughts on “Remove nofollow from WordPress comments”

1. That’s a good start dude, you’re in the right direction :)

   P.S. Why have you disabled trackbacks on your blog? Just wondering. Askimet stops the spam ones pretty good.

2. Great :) You are connecting people ;)

3. Why have you disabled trackbacks on your blog?

   I didn’t ;)

4. Thats good. I’ll start writing more comments to your posts. :)

5. CIprian, Akismet still takes your comment as spam. Maybe because you have nospam@ in the e-mail address ? Can you put another one please ? :)

6. Looks like an easy plug-in to install. Some other solutions required editing the actual php code. Going to test this out on my blog as well to remove the dumb no follow tags.

7. Great idea Cristian. Thanks for sharing.

8. Well i guess it makes sense, so i too follow.. Removed the “nofollow” from my blogs as well

9. Thank you,
   I hate “nofollow”. The Internet is based on links and “nofollow” kills them. No links – no Internet.
   I’m going to implement this plugin today.

10. Hi there, congratulations on your dofollow I suggest you join the group on bumpzee.com . I believe that this “no nofollow” movement is going the put more personality among blogs…

11. We’ve removed it too. No bad Karma as of yet!

12. Thank you. It’s a good articles.

13. I have removed nofollow in my blog :) Nice article

14. Well, I understand why you do this and even support, but for me, as I am admin of blog hosting, removing of nofollow tag is not suitable because I recieve quite much spam registrations by hand daily…
    So my point is that it is ok to remove nofollow for single private blog, but not for the whole network.

    Good luck, man!

15. This is great. This shows love is not lost in this world yet. Thanks for the tips.

16. What DU said is totally right, You cannot control the spam for a large network.

17. I made a plug-in for the people who would like to remove nofollow attribute from their TRACKBACKS ONLY. This way you share your link love with people who shared it with you.
    http://www.turkhitbox.com/wordpress-seo/dofollow-trackbacks-plugin.html

18. Great stuff. I’ve just downloaded the plugin and starts sharing my love for my readers too.

19. hi..just downloaded and installed. works flawlessly :)

20. Thanks for the tips. :)

21. Thanks for the plugin,

    However links in the comments still shows: rel=”nofollow”

    Should that still be there?

22. Yup. I wanted it that way.

23. I’m curious. Why did you want to leave rel=”nofollow” in the comments? I installed the plugin and was confused when I edited a comment and still saw it. I looked at the source and it was gone.

24. With this plugin, I want to reward users with a link, but I don’t want to spam myself if someone ads 30 links in the comment.

    I think the link to the user’s homepage is enough.

25. Is there any plugin that can remove the nofollow from links made within the comment?

26. I can modify my plugin to do that, if you need it :)

27. Hey this is indeed a nice idea. I think from now on every webmaster you should do the same thing. Maybe soon I’ll implement it on my blog. It’s a good karma. Learn to give and you shall receive.

28. This is great ! i will use it for my wordpress sites that I have hosted. Does anyone know if you can do this for a wordpress “hosted blog’ I mean like this
    blogname.wordpress? Thanks

29. This plugin absolutely rocks. No need to modify the source code for myself :)

30. Good Plugin, Thanks. But I have some problem in russian localization WP. I don’t see how to activate this plugin in admin panel . (

31. Just go to the “Plugins” (or whatever in Russian) section of your WordPress, and click activate next to my plugin.

32. Great plugin. Using it and loving it. Using it on my blog and blogged about it.

    P.S. Why are trackbacks disabled?

33. P.S. Why are trackbacks disabled?

    Too much spam Oleg…

34. Your suggestions are very concrete and helpful. I’ll pass them on to writers who are maintaining their own blogs.

35. I’ve just added your charmingly-easy nofollow plugin to both my blogs and will be writing about the benefits shortly. Thank you so much.

    Gary

36. Welcome Gary.

37. Its ironic that many bloggers talk about this but then they actually use no follow I have seen many blogs leeching off the dofollow movement claiming to be dofollow sites but actually use nofollow, they are worse than the comment spammers in my eyes.

38. Just for the record, here’s where I praise your plugin.

    http://blog.eprofitnews.org/?p=591

    Thanks again, Cristian.

    Gary

39. Saw that just earlier… Thanks Gary.

40. I have installed do follow plugin on my blog. Can anyone tell me where cna i find that fancy logo that says that i have Do follow plugin installed?

41. overall implementation of the idea in my opinion has been pretty poor. When I browsed through the many Do Follow Blogrolls or Do Follow directories, I found quite a few blogs that I would consider either poor quality or sites that are promoting things (selling text link ads or blog reviews) that I personally don’t want to be connected with. (From a linking standpoint).

42. I also was wondering where to get the logo, so I did a Google search and found them. Sorry, I forget where but try searching for: ifollow images
    or: nofollow images.

    Alternatively, copy the one I use at http://harmedia.com but there are other colors too.

    Cheers,
    Gary

43. I just installed a dofollow plugin in my blog because I believe in the giving back link love to worthy commentors.

44. I hate “nofollow”. The Internet is based on links and “nofollow” kills them. No links – no Internet.

    That sums up half of the story. Other half is here:

    http://seolutions.net/blog/nofollow-monstrosity/

    putting nofollow on links to big sites.

45. well done dude, it’s time share our respect to those people who contribute to our blog.

46. I have never been a fan of no-follow, human approval of each comment should have been enough and forcing bloggers into doing something they might not want to do just isn’t cool. It should be an option “to follow” or “not to follow”, that was OUR question to answer.

47. Thanks for the plugin. I have 4 blogs and Askimet doesn’t protect me %100 from spam all the time, so I still have to pick through the legit comments anyway. I think if a fellow blogger takes the time to visit me and write something intersting he/she should be rewarded with some link love.

48. You have approached it in a nice way. Removing nofollow does promote commenting & a little link-back shouldn’t be mind.

49. yes, i think no follow should be removed, since people first check the blog, article and others should haing a do follow or not.

50. Simple plugin. Thank you.

51. It seems only fair…..
    I just started using WordPress and I’ve seen sites that are very liberal about comments and links and they have high PR. I don’t think the nofollow was every intented to be a blanket for every comment. Just to stop spam. There are better ways for that and google is all about links so one would think they would want dofollow. . . ;) just not your own lol.

    I’ve got the plugin on all my sites now….

52. I did already to my blog and it works. thanks

53. great..IMO, by removing nofollow, it encourage people to come and commenting and at the same time, connecting bloggers around the world :)

54. Found this site googling on ‘nofollow tag removed’ and I have too decided to remove it from all of my websites.

55. Someone said here that it was a bad idea. But I disagree with it. I have found this post through google:) so I think it worked.
    +1

56. Well done. Let’s hope that a trend has been set. I have now also used this plug-in. Please, anyone else reading this post who has their own blog – DO THE SAME!!

57. I agree with you there. I think comments aren’t such an important part to what makes a good blog anyway. I think it’s the content. But if you reward people wanting links, then you’ll get more readers to your site anyway. Win-Win

58. Hey thanks for the plugin, that was what I searched for :). Hope it works also in german blogs.

    Your seem to be a funny guy ” Website – Spam me, and I’ll Spam you back 100 times”.

    Bye, Stefan

59. Thanks for the plugin :)

60. it’s wonderfull a addions.Because the webmaster will made comments to your blog.Later you add all comment’s link nofollow :) your blog is will be wonderfull.

61. Thanks from great plugins…implement it to my blog and it working properly…but not for link inside comment…still got rel=”nofollow”.can remove that one also?

62. thanks for info.nice plugin.

63. Hi there, very nice site, i can see you have put a lot of work into it, i have being reading your posts about the dofollow and i think its a great idea, i have downloaded your plugin and i have installed it along with a image on my site saying u comment i follow, i will not be tolerating spam either, but i can see how this benefits everyone, Cheers Mick…

64. Thanks for doing this. Hopefully, others will follow your example, and “dofollow” will become the norm on blogs.

65. Thanks. I just download the plug in.

66. I like the dofollow idea and thanks for the plugin. Lots of great info! Keep it up.

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