What is No follow tag?
In simple words, search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and MSN crawl the web periodically to locate and index new pages to include in keyword search results. Each link on a web page is followed during the indexing process.
It’s probably built into your blog or website without you even knowing about it.
Here are number of ways why I stopped using Nofolllow and you should too stop using nofollow tag.
#1. Foundation for Nofollow - Google Page Rank
Page Rank is a 1 through 10 numerical indicator that Google assigns to web pages to note how important that page is. Page rank is then used as a factor in determining where a page should be listed in Google’s search engine . Pages with a page rank of 10 will usually get listed above sites with low page ranks.
Although Google uses dozens of factors when determining page rank, the number one factor is that it uses inbound links.
#2. Google no longer treats them the same way
As Sketch101 has sad that google will no longer treats them same way.
The page rank is now divided up among all the links on the page and is only passed on to the followable links. That probably sounds confusing so let me try to make it a bit more simple.
Imagine a page with a Google page rank of 8. This page has 4 outbound links and 2 of those links having the nofollow tag. The page’s rank of 8 will be divided among all 4 sites so that each page would receive 2 page rank. However, the nofollow links will receive nothing and the others will still only receive 2. This effectively wastes half of the page rank that could be shared.
It will no longer concentrate extra page rank to the other links. It will just throw away the extra rank
#3. There are many anti spam plugiuns or spam filters available now.
Most people are using nofollow tags, so spammers have less incentives to leave rediculous comments on your blog or site. If spammers not get page rank bank to their sites then what’s the use of spamming on your site.
Many of blogging platforms are having excellent plugins to stop spam comments.
#4. It will Reward your commentors or readers.
By removing the nofollow tags from your outbound links you are effectively rewarding your commenters or readers with page rank back to their sites.
Conclusion
I removed the nofollow tags from Site to give my readers this same incentive. So come on and leave a comment and get some page rank headed back your way!!!!!!!
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ya, no problem dude.
Thanks
These noFollow tags were just built to help prevent spammers. However, Bing, yahoo, ect don’t pay any attention to these noFollow tags.
I do use CommentLuv too, but I always tell people to ignore these tags because good content will get found.
ya that’s right Garen but one of the main reason of removing nofollow tag is rewarding Technshare readers by giving a link back.:)
no follow is just complete BS. Matt Cutts isn’t saying much about it these days but a year or so ago he let it slip that Page Rank actually does still flow through no-follow links, but just not as much as a follow link.
But I wouldn’t be surprised if google started ignoring no-follow altogether. However, you’re not going to see them come out and say ‘Hey, we ignore no-follow tags now, so you spammers can go nuts and start comment spamming again’.
But I wish bloggers would get a clue and start removing their no-follow tags. They are just a waste of time. and like you say there are fantastic antispam systems now so it’s not like there is a huge risk or anything.
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I also stopped using no follow on my blog.
My blog is now do follow
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That’s so great to hear
Kharim
Keep up the Good Work !
thanks going to delete the code from my blog
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That’s so great to hear bro :p
keep it up !!
I get rid of the nofollow tag for comments in my blogs too. Both are now dofollow. However, I add the nofollow tag to affiliate links.
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That’s so great to hear bro.
keep up the good work !!
thanks for commenting
Hey there Dev,
Just wondered how I’d remove the ‘no-follow’ on my Wordpress blog (hosted on my own domain)?
Have had a quick look through the settings, and done a quick search on G, but the only option seems to be a plugin/addon….have I missed a simple option?
Many Thanks,
Darren.
You can do it manually
(http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/how-to-get-rid-of-the-nofollow-attribute-on-your-wordpress-blog)
Or use WP Plugin Nofollow free.
Thanks for commenting Darren !!
Thanks again Dev –
I’m all no-follow’d up now
Nofollow free installed & setup….happy days!
D
Good for you! I personally thing nofollow has been a failure. The point was to control spam. But even nofollow blogs still get spammed so what’s the point right?
I love dofollow blogs. This means I love your blog!
Mine is also a doFollow blog.
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Lots of great information in this blog thanks for sharing, I favorited your site so I can visit again in the near future. Cheers James
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Who died and left google in charge. ;p)
Anyway…brilliant info–my brain is sizzling by now.
Thanks,
Johnny
Using nofollow will make commenters think whether its worth commenting or not.When they gain something they will have the interest to post.
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