22 July 2005
rel external nofollow
Posted by Mikhail Esteves under: General .
I for one believe this new WordPress implementation of Google’s creation – avoid comment spam by treating every commenter as a spammer – is a shitty idea. I believe my weblog is not spam ridden, and even if it is, I think I can take care of it myself.
Tell me, why would you want to comment on anybody’s blog anymore? The reason almost always was to get a linkback to your site and increase rankings, visits, etc etc. (Okay, unless you’re a regular visitor or really have something to say.) Now we treat every visitor like a spammer, and that really won’t do much good will it?
I think WordPress (and others) atleast need to remove rel=nofollow for:
a) Comments that have been moderated
b) New comments by previously moderated commenters
And keep the rest as it is. Give us some options to control this in WordPress. We’ll decide how we like it!
Until WordPress changes the way this works, you can use the NoNoFollow plugin for WordPress. It removes the rel='nofollow' parts that WordPress adds to comment URLs.
wordpress, rel+nofollow 12 Comments so far...
Free Blog Says:
27 December 2005 at 4:04 pm.
I agree with you .. Atleast moderators have some control on their comments.
adam Says:
15 March 2006 at 10:30 pm.
I agree with you, it will put some people off posting comments as they get nothing out of it.
WebPelican Says:
31 March 2006 at 1:45 pm.
I see your point, but I don’t, however, see a better solution to prevent comment spam. Comments made by those with the sole purpose of increasing their Google PR most often wouldn’t anyhow be that interesting.
Sparks Flying Says:
27 April 2006 at 4:43 pm.
I think the whole idea of posting comments to blogs is so that Humans ( who read them) can get some feedback on a post.
I think Google PR is over-rated ( alibeit id love a PR10 :-> )
Im new to this and think the world needs more humor , and thank Godness for blogs with some homor and where you can learn.
I plan to stay a while here!
Cheers
Sparks Flying!
Standard Warfare Says:
15 October 2006 at 4:01 pm.
I agree with you, out will nofollow! I mean, nothing wrong with a person wanting a link to their site.
Wealthy Webmaster Says:
30 October 2006 at 9:12 pm.
I have a feeling that google doesn’t pay as much attention to the nofollow tag as every thinks they do. I also feel that blog spam is a huge problem.. Some of my blogs get dozens of spam comments each day. Some of them were so bad I just decided to disable comments, which sucks.
Ian Wayne Says:
18 December 2006 at 7:00 am.
Very good point!
AndresVia Says:
1 March 2007 at 8:40 pm.
Good point.
You can do this also manually. Edit the file “wp-includes/comment-functions.php” in the function “get_comment_author_link()” and remove the word “nofollow”.
The bad thing is that you must reedit this every time you update wordpress.
Well I think you can rewrite the whole function in the “config.php” file.
Don’t do this if you recieve a lot of spam.
Martin Dooley Says:
13 April 2007 at 5:54 am.
This is the problem when websites are designed for Google and not Humans!
John Smith Says:
25 April 2007 at 12:32 am.
I totally agree, actually if I want a spam filter I use one of an other kind. Ok for the standard, there are moments when you want the link not to be followed, but not as a general rule in wordpress.
Aby The Liberal Says:
18 June 2007 at 10:25 pm.
Yes, I find it irksome on Wordpress’ part or in case of any site which does it. When we are giving someone reviews, if we get nothing out of it, it is pretty much useless. Especially when our comment is already moderated and found to be fine.
Leo Medina Says:
16 October 2007 at 10:17 am.
I agree with you, it will put some people off posting comments, no one will want to post a comment if they get nothing out of it.