While I have Page Rank on my mind, about a week ago  I started doing some reading about the whole follow / no follow implementation when it comes to linking etc. I didn’t know this, and Im still not completely sure about how this works, so don’t sue me. From what I understand, Wordpress auto adds the No Follow attribute to links that are in the comment section of your blog. I haven’t found out yet if it auto add it to your blogroll  or other places.

This only matters to people who have websites and/or blogs, but if you don’t know what I’m talking about, I’ll give you a brief explanation.

Page Rank is highly based on linking.  Whos linking to you, who you link too etc. Search engine results are a combination of things which also include linking and anchor text. The No Follow attribute has been added so that Google can try to weed out non relevant linking.

For example, if someone go to your site, leave a comment, and within that comment they put a link to their website, Google will count that as a regular link and it will be contributed to their pagerank, and/or search engine results  (serp) etc. That could be really bad if  people start spamming your comments section, or linking your website to bad websites.

The No Follow attribute, helps with that.

I have a problem though, I don’t mind if people who comment on my blog have following links to their blog. As long as the they aren’t just spamming me, and the comments are legitimate.

So…. Ive been looking for a plugin that would disable the automatic use of No Follow on my comment section and other areas. I found a plugin, that removes the No follow Attribute all together throughout the site and I’m using that now. Have been for a couple weeks. But what I want is one that has a little more control over things. I would like to make it so that after someone comments on my blog a few times, they will have following links. and before that time, the no follow attribute would be applied.

I guess I’m going to have to search around for a plugin that does that, but for now, the No Follow attribute has been removed.