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DoFollow For Blogger – Spread Some More Link Love!

Posted in March 30th, 2007

by Chris Lodge in Blog Improvement, Quick Tips, SEO

My recent post on spreading the link love for your commenters was aimed solely at WordPress users as it was a plugin.

However, those of you using Blogger can now follow us, and offer link love to your commenters by carrying out the simple instructions at BetaBloggerForDummies: Remove NoFollow attribute on comments.

It’s a very simple alteration to your template, where you delete one line of code. The instructions are very clear, and as long as you backup your template first (download it) nothing can go permanently wrong.

Who’s going to do it?

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The Curmudgeon said,

in March 30th, 2007 at 11:47 pm

Is this supposed to be the Blogger equivalent of the # of comments gizmo that you have? I read the linked article and am still not sure. Perhaps I need a Real Dummies’ Guide to Google Blogger….

Untwisted Vortex - Living in a Different Land » Blog Drive-Bys for 2007-03-31 said,

in March 31st, 2007 at 1:54 am

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Kai said,

in March 31st, 2007 at 6:14 am

Again, funny that you would post this as I read it at the dummies site the other day (while still trying to work on getting my stupid header clickable!) Anyhoo… was going to ask you about it – does that not suck the PR out of a site, or is it a good thing? And with blogger, 8 out of 10 comments link only to profile pages – would you be giving away tons of link love to profiles?

I guess my question is what are the benefits to doing this?

Kai said,

in March 31st, 2007 at 6:16 am

Oh, off topic, but I just bought my domain this morning! Had to go with thebuzzqueen, but close enough! Just have to wait for paypal to clear and it’s all mine!

You were right too – dirt cheap, and so is hosting, so I may be following along soon…

Sunflower said,

in March 31st, 2007 at 6:26 am

Yes, in Blogger, comment links back to the profile pages – that’s a problem.

I will figure out how to do this.

I will Exercise for Comments!
Sunflower

Andy said,

in April 1st, 2007 at 9:07 am

Finally we have something like this for Google Blogger! Thanks!

Chris Lodge said,

in April 1st, 2007 at 11:09 am

Sort of Curmudgeon, but a lot more straightforward – people just get the value of links from their comments.

Good work Kai, come to WordPress…..

Regards the profile problem, all you need to do is leave comments as ‘other’ and put you name and URL in the boxes, as I do when commenting on your blogs. Encourage others to do the same if they want the link love…. The benefits to you are nothing, other than giving a little gift for commenting.

Cheers Andy!

Kai said,

in April 2nd, 2007 at 12:32 am

Thanks for responding Chris – do you think it has any negative impact to your PR?

Chris Lodge said,

in April 2nd, 2007 at 4:03 pm

I don’t think it has any negative aspect Kai, it’s the kind of thing Andy Beard is hot on, and he advocates DoFollow.

The next update is next week, so I’ll let you know what happens to my PR!!

My view is that I’ll do so much to please Google, but after a while you have to look at pleasing your readers too.

Kai said,

in April 3rd, 2007 at 5:41 am

Thanks again. I do really think it’s a good idea – will look into it tomorrow.

After all, I’m sure Claire could use a bit more link love (hehe)

Chris Lodge said,

in April 3rd, 2007 at 7:52 pm

Susan said,

in April 26th, 2007 at 9:43 pm

Nice blog, really like the color scheme. I found it while researching for my latest challenge the DoFollow Pingback Challenge. I have DoFollow turned on for my blog and the challenge is to see how long it takes me to find 100 blogs that have it on as well. Hope you pop over and take a look, either way glad I found your blog.

Chris Lodge said,

in April 26th, 2007 at 10:02 pm

Hi Susan, I think you’re the first person to compliment my colour scheme

Sounds interesting, I shall certainly have a look.

Cafe_Cafe said,

in June 23rd, 2007 at 8:21 am

That kind of info is really valuable. I´ll change my template right now to follow comments.
Thanks a lot and feel free to visit me any day to have some fun.

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