Comments on: Does Google Index the Linked-to Page

By: Jordan McClements

Jordan McClements — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:16:25 +0000

There is no right answer to this one I guess. It is a debate that could go on for years (and probably will…)

By: Paul Anthony

Paul Anthony — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:14:44 +0000

In my opinion, if you want to give link juice to someone who deserves it, do so in the article body.

Opening up comments for follow, is a sure fire way to attract more comment spam, and to make it onto a dofollow list of blogs.

Just my two cents. I’ve experimented with b4, and found it didn’t make a bit of difference to audience participation.

By: Jordan McClements

Jordan McClements — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:35:07 +0000

I installed the ‘Do Follow 4.0′ plugin for Wordpress. It is dead simple, and works retrospectively as well i.e. all previous posts get the ‘nofollow’ removed…

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:49:18 +0000

Jordan,

If a comment is from someone that I don’t know and poor then I tend not to approve it.

The no follow attribute is the default that’s all. Maybe when I get a sec I’ll remove it.

By: Jordan McClements

Jordan McClements — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:50:37 +0000

Michael,

I see you are using rel=”nofollow” on this blog..

I decided to take it off my ppcni.com blog.

If a comment is spammy then I don’t publish it. If it is a quality comment then I think it is only fair that I share the wealth a wee bit !

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:16:53 +0000

Hi Paul,

Although there’s no PR passed, it’s a good way to get a site indexed quickly.

I can’t imagine that you could rank for fairly competitive terms using just this one strategy.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:13:46 +0000

Hi Michael, as you’ve found – this myth is debunked. The only thing that happens with a no-follow is that pagerank doesn’t get passed.

In other words the bot behaviour won’t take it into account when determining important pages.

Many people (spammers) are still successfully ranking in Google using ONLY no-follow links from blogs etc.