Comments on: rel external nofollow

By: Leo Medina

Leo Medina — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:59:21 +0000

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.

By: Aby The Liberal

Aby The Liberal — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:07:15 +0000

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.

By: John Smith

John Smith — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:14:44 +0000

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.

By: Martin Dooley

Martin Dooley — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:36:39 +0000

This is the problem when websites are designed for Google and not Humans!

By: AndresVia

AndresVia — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:22:17 +0000

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.

By: Ian Wayne

Ian Wayne — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:42:53 +0000

Very good point!

By: Wealthy Webmaster

Wealthy Webmaster — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:54:04 +0000

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.

By: Standard Warfare

Standard Warfare — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 10:43:24 +0000

I agree with you, out will nofollow! I mean, nothing wrong with a person wanting a link to their site.