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The rel=\"nofollow\"<\/code> attribute on HTML anchors was supposed to help prevent comment spam<\/a>. Unfortunately, as Michael Hampton explains at length, NoFollow hasn’t worked<\/a> – at least not based on the volume of comment spam that Akismet<\/a> has removed since I moved to WordPress<\/a> ([[akismet_counter]] spam comments detected as you read this post).<\/p>\n

\"URanda Clay has created an alternative – the I Follow Movement<\/a> – sites that acknowledge the contribution that commenting makes to the blogoshere (avoiding the need to specifically add links to a blogroll in order to spread some link love). I figure that if NoFollow is not preventing comment spam, the least I can do is let the information people leave here in comments work for them in the search engines (at the risk that a few spam comments will still make it through<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Following Owen’s example, I’ve implemented the DoFollow WordPress plug-in<\/a> on this site so URLs in comments will now (hopefully) be picked up by the Googlebot, Slurp, MSNbot, Teoma and others. Incidentally, if I specifically add rel=\"nofollow\"<\/code> to a link, it still works – so it’s still possible to block links that you really don’t want the bots to follow (robots.txt directives<\/a> are unaffected too).<\/p>\n

So, please, comment away – and consider doing the same on your site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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