How to Make Your WordPress or Blogger Blog DoFollow
What does becoming DoFollow mean? It simply means that you are allowing each commenter’s links in your comments section to be nofollow free. It is like a reward to the people who take the time to leave a comment on your website, allowing their links to be fully useful when search engines crawl your post.
So how do you make your blog DoFollow?
Self-Hosted WordPress Blogs
For self-hosted WordPress users, it is pretty easy. Simply go to your Dashboard > Plugins > Add New and search for DoFollow. You should receive a list of current DoFollow plugins that you can simply install and activate. Once activated, these plugins automatically make all of the commenters’ links (past and future) DoFollow.
Blogger / Blogspot Blogs
For Blogger / Blogspot blogs, you will need to do a few things. First, under settings, allow Anonymous users to comment. This is the only way your commenters will have the Name / URL option. Then, go to your Layout tab > Edit HTML. From here, you will need to Download Full Template, which will be an XML file.
Open the XML file in a text editor. Just in case there are any problems, first save a backup copy of your template. Then do a search for nofollow. You will find two lines that will simply need the rel=’nofollow’ removed from the code – one for the commenter’s URL, and one for backlinks.
<a expr:href='data:comment.authorUrl' rel='nofollow'><data:comment.author/></a>
<a expr:href='data:backlink.url' rel='nofollow'><data:backlink.title/></a>
Save your template xml, and then upload it. Now your Blogger / Blogspot should be free of nofollow links.
Very nice tips for bloggers, I have just did that to one of my Famous Bloggers Club blog!
I believe this is a good way to enhance the loyalty of readers and visitors of my blog, but of course there is one main problem, Spammers!
So if anyone decide to follow the DoFollow movement shoudl put more attention to Spammers who will comment to get your PR fuel!
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I much prefer DoFollow, because I think the whole concept of NoFollow is half-baked. However, a little test I conducted shows that there might not be as much a difference as most people think between NoFollow and DoFollow. See the post that CommentLuv adds to my comment for the details.
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Does it means that i have to accept spam comments?
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sairil, no – not at all. Spam comments will still get caught by Akismet (a must have plugin, think it comes standard with WordPress).
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I’ll be changing my blog to dofollow blog in short time soon, still fixing something. After that I’ll be submitting my blog over here.
Regards,
Lee
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By the way, the WordPress plugin I’m using is the one called “nofollow case by case”, it will enable dofollow on both comment name and commentluv links in comments. If you don’t want a “do follow” on certain “name links” in comments, you just add “/dontfollow” to the end of the URL, which then automatically converts to rel=”nofollow” on the page.
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Askimet is not doing a very good job,few days ago i was heavily spammed by some idiots,around 100 comments all full of links(about 100 in each comment) and askimet failed to block them. I installed WP-SpamFree plugin and all problem solved.
Went off topic,very nice tutorial @Kristi!
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Has anyone else had problems with the DoFollow, WebGuerrilla Version plugin? After upgrading WordPressthe option to “dofollow” a specific comment no longer appears as one of the options.
While it’s true that you can open yourself up to spammers by being DoFollow, you always have the option to moderate your comments and not post those that are purely spam.
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@Lisa Riversa,
That is always the “desired” situation but unfortunately that doesn’t happen. When your dofollow blog becomes more and more popular, you’ll be targeted by more and more spammers. That has always been the trend. In fact, some people intentionally open up dofollow before their blogs become popular, and turn it off after.
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My blog uses NOFF (No Follow Free) plugin but I set it to make the author’s signature and the CommentLuv links DoFollow after three (3) comments. Would you accept it for listing here?
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Just made my blog dofollow – thank you so much for telling me about this!
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Does anyone know how Disqus treats NoFollow? I’ve just installed it on my site, and wonder what it does?
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Thank you.
Now I am going to try it out in some of my blogger blogs.
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i prefer nofollow on comment section
prevent bad neighborhood outgoing links right a way.
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If I open up my relatively new blog? Will it hurt my effort of getting a pagerank? My current pagerank is still zero. It is good if ‘DoFollow’ attract more legitimate readers then spammers.
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Thank you . I have 2 blogs,one at blogspot.com and one at wordpress and I wanted to make it do-follow so more readers could get to me.
This post helped me a lot !
Thanks for the guide..I’ll be changing mine to dofollow now
Making a blog do follow is really good thing because you can take benefit with this plug in.
Do follow plug in guides Google to crawl the blog or website.
Very useful info. I’m ready to make the jump to DoFollow. I think the drawbacks of potentially more spam will be outweighed by the potential for more visitors and visibility. Time will tell…
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Wordpress makes it so easy that I can even do it. I just browsed the plugins for do follow, hit install and that was it. Wordpress is awesome for someone like me that doesn’t know much about coding. Now, hopefully I will not get many spammers on my blog. I have comments set to moderation though, so I will just mark them as spam in akismet and that should help others in the community before they can get to them.
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Do follow blogs are really very beneficial for seo point of view, here you have posted very nice information to how we can make our blog do follow. I will use this technique.
Question: on the word-press plugin edit you say “these plugins automatically make all of the commenters’ links (past and future) DoFollow.” Is there a way to do the same on a blogspot or livejournal comments and if so how do you do it?
Thanks for the help.
-Cooper
Just to get It 100% correct, only think I have to do to make my blog do follow is install a plugin? Correct?
Which plugin would you recommend that I use, for Wordpress?
Can I still overwrite specific links to be No follow?
Thanks / Morten
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i have made my blogger hosted blog do follow, looking for more and more visitors come.
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I’ve got the self-hosted wordpress site and I’m all do-follow ready
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Thank you so much for this post. I’ve been searching for both myself and a client to figure out how to make our WordPress blogs “dofollow”.
This is also the second time today that I ran across the KeywordLuv plug-in so I think I better have a look at that one too.
I really appreciate you sharing this resource as it will certainly help me help my clients more!
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Hi,
I just made the change tp Do-Follow on my Blogger blog.
Very easy change to make but i wasnt sure if it would draw spam comments so i will see how it goes.
Paul.
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Thanks for the great tip, i just installed the plugin!
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Well, It will be good for others If I can share my PageRank. But I am afraid that my Blog will be effected from Spammers.
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Thanks for the tips. Really helpful and easy for newbies like me!
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I’ve installed Lucia’s Linky Love plugin that removes the no follow tag after a few approved comments from a user, thus also works to reduce spam while still sharing the link juice with my loyal commenters.
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Great tips and command a retweet
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I made one of my blogs DoFollow awhile back and it did increase my spam comments. I would constantly get one liners that I could tell were nothing but spammers looking for a quick link. I ended up removing it after awhile since it required far too much time to wee out all the spam comments from the quality ones.
But I do agree that it is a great way to share PageRank with the people that take the time to read your articles and leave some quality feedback.
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Great information! Now I got my blog to be “DoFollow” – so everyone feel free to comment away and make my day
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Thanks for your good tip, I am shearhing this tip. Thanks again
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I totally agree with making my blogs dofollow. I use the dofollow wordpress plugin from Semilogic. I also use the Bad Behavior plugin which really helps with spam. It catches a lot of spam before it even happens.I know this comment is on an old post and I apologize for that but… heck I ended up here so someone else may too and wanted anyone inquiring to know the combination of the semilogic plugin along with Bad Behavior works well together.
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Thanks for the real information
I have a blog on blog spot and didn’t know how to make it a do follow blog
Now I know and I just finished converting it into a do follow blog
Also this made my top commentator script also do follow
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thank you for the great info. Is there a way to enable dofollow for wordpress blog hosted on wordpress dot com?
Thanks for the info mate! Well I already use the do-follow plugin for Wordpress…But good tip!
Within few days my blog will be a dofollow blog.
Great tips for a newb like me..Looking for even more sites build up my bookmarking cues!
Thanks for this info. The only problem is that PR will be leaking out and this ‘link love’ leaving your site. Also, you could be linking to ‘bad neighborhoods’ when using Dofollow. But the increase in visitor activity might balance those up for you! Geoff D.
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