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So, as I learn more and more about this blogging stuff, I keep having more and more questions. How does everybody feel about dofollow or nofollow links in your comments section? I don't really see any disadvantage to it, and it gives link juice to the people who comment. Am I wrong about that? How do you guys feel about it and why?

Post edited 5:13 pm – August 31, 2012 by Club Thrifty

The College Investor said:

I'm in the Nofollow camp and here is why:

Google Penalized My Page Rank

That is exactly what I was worried about. Would this suggest that you should Nofollow roundup posts as well…which I guess somewhat defeats the purpose of a roundup? (Not that I'm going to do that. Just thinking I should limit our links a bit more.) Thanks for the input.

I would definitely recommend keeping the comments as "no follow".

There are lists circulated in marketing circles of blogs that allow "do follow" comments.

If you setup your site this way, you may quickly become a spammer haven.

Sunil at theextramoney blog has "do follow" links on his comments. As far as I know, he's the only one. If you have not seen his site, go…. it is content rich.

Post edited 12:54 pm – September 4, 2012 by KyleAAA

If you have a dofollow comments section, you will end up on one of those "100 blogs with dofollow comments" lists and get bombarded by spam comments. You might end up getting a few good comments out of the deal as well, though.

As a side note, Google implemented a change several years ago that completely negated the link-juice-keeping effect of nofollow links. There is NO seo advantage to nofollowing links. It used to work but now it doesn't. If you have a comment link, it is going to affect the link juice you keep on the page regardless of whether or not it's nofollow.

The College Investor said:

TB at BlueCollarWorkman said:

If you guys could back up here — what actually is "dofollow" and "nofollow"?? What do those mean? Seems like every day there's new blogging stuff to learn!

Every link can have a rel="nofollow" tag added to it.  It basically tells search engines that this isn't a link you condone, so don't give it juice from my site.  By default, Wordpress and other blogging platforms DON'T add this tag, but you can add it manually or setup your CommentLuv to be no-follow.  

Oh I see, man, I had no idea about any of this. Crazy. Ignorance <em>was </em>bliss, lol.

femmefrugality said:

KyleAAA said:

If you have a dofollow comments section, you will end up on one of those "100 blogs with dofollow comments" lists and get bombarded by spam comments. You might end up getting a few good comments out of the deal as well, though.

 

As a side note, Google implemented a change several years ago that completely negated the link-juice-keeping effect of nofollow links. There is NO seo advantage to nofollowing links. It used to work but now it doesn't. If you have a comment link, it is going to affect the link juice you keep on the page regardless of whether or not it's nofollow.

Thanks for this info.  I'm new at the whole html and seo thing, so all my links have been nofollow unless they're paid for.  I'm going to have to change this if there's really no difference.  Or just move in a new direction going forward.

Actually, that's the opposite of what you should do. Google frowns on selling dofollow links. All sold links should be nofollow (unless you're okay with the risk and are charging a premium). In general, NON-paid links should be dofollow. The comments section issue is separate, because those are links you can't control. Since linking out to a bad neighborhood is considered bad SEO, you could get in trouble if a commenter links to a bad neighborhood in their signature and it's not nofollowed. What I was attempting to say in my response was that you don't KEEP any extra link juice on your site JUST by nofollowing links. Make sense? I know it's a bit counter-intuitive so feel free to PM me if you want a longer explanation.