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For about a month, I have had the nofollow tags taken out of comments. I hadn’t mentioned it to anyone, but during this time, any comment would automatically get a linkback to their site. Originally, the rel=”nofollow” tag was added to combat comment spam; but now the Akismet spam filter that comes with Wordpress is so effective that this is now a moot point.

By removing the nofollow tag, the community is rewarded and commenting is encouraged — everybody wins! This movement has many names: No Nofollow, Dofollow, I Follow… but it all means the same thing.

To take out nofollow from your comments, you can use this Wordpress plug-in or use one of the listed methods on this page. Once you’ve done that, you can join the Dofollow community and find a list of other blogs using the plug-in.

See what other bloggers have said about this:

• Kelly Cho – Link Love
• Samanathon – Say Goodbye to the No Follow tag
• Pure Blogging – To Follow or Not to Follow
• JMH Techtronics – I Follow Do You?

What do you think of this movement? Benefits the community or encourages random pointless comments?

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