To Follow, or Not To Follow, That is the Question
written by Anthony Dinh
By default, the rel=”nofollow” attribute is enabled in Wordpress for pingback, trackback and comments to prevent spamming of your comments section. With this enabled, you will also in effect, be denying other bloggers the ability to place a link in your comments section when they link to one of your posts.
So, instead of penalizing readers who actually leave comments worth reading or who have legitimately linked to your post, why don’t we reward them for their time and for contributing to your blog traffic by showing them some link love? If your blog is moderated and you have spam filters such as Akismet enabled, then you should feel at ease that your blog is well protected.
To enable DoFollow, download the plugin from Kimmo.Suominen.com and save it to your wp-content/plugin directory. Next, enable the plugin through your admin panel. You should now see a DoFollow subpage under the settings tab. From here, you can configure how you want this feature to behave by limiting it to comments that older than x days, or by visitor or registered user. Additionally, you can configure these settings at the post level as well if you wanted to get that granular.
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