How One WordPress Plugin That Can Help You And Your Commenters

Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 Comments (7)

Everyone these days seem to be interested in more opportunities to gain traction with SEO and link building while the search engines seem to be getting stricter with their policies. If you are a blogger using WordPress to manage your blog content then you should know that commenters leaving comments on your blog posts will get no link juice unless you change the links to dofollow links. WordPress is defaulted at nofollow on the comment links.

A dofollow link is one that passes link juice while a nofollow link doesn’t. What that means is you’ll get credit from the search engines, Google primarily, for your links. That translates into a higher PageRank and better authority and could lead to higher search rankings.

WordPress has a plugin called the Dofollow Plugin. By installing this plugin you are turning your WordPress blog into a dofollow blog instead of a nofollow blog. That will encourage more comments. Many people will not comment on nofollow blogs because they are looking for the link credit. They may be very commenters and therefore you are missing out on their valuable knowledge.

So how does this benefit you? Well, the more comments you get on your blog, the more often the search engine robots will visit it and crawl it, but also more comments means more on-page content, which is good for search rankings. Blog posts with a lot of comments rise in the search engines more quickly and go higher in the rankings.

This is a decision you’ll have to weigh carefully, however. By making your links dofollow you are also inviting more spammers – people who are there just for the link and really have nothing valuable to contribute. Be on notice that you’ll have to spend more time filtering through comments to separate the spam from the valuable comments. If you’re OK with that then the Dofollow Plugin is a good plugin to add to your WordPress blog.

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7 Comments

Comment by Blogger Tips

Made Friday, 2 of January , 2009 at 3:29 am

I just posted some new Free U Comment I Follow Buttons & Badges on my blog for anyone who wants a dofollow badge that’s a little more Web 2.0

Comment by Smart Boy

Made Friday, 2 of January , 2009 at 1:48 pm

Thank you for the information regarding DoFollow. I’ll need to do more research before I implement this plugin – but thank you for your thoughts.

Comment by Ozgur

Made Friday, 16 of January , 2009 at 10:09 am

Thanks for sharing
Best Regards from Turkey!

Comment by peterblog204@yahoo.com

Made Sunday, 18 of January , 2009 at 1:00 am

I set all my blogs to do follow. I comment all the time but its nice for me and others to get their “Google juice.” Fair is fair. I always try to leave good comments and I expect others to do the same.

Comment by Tommy

Made Thursday, 29 of January , 2009 at 8:49 am

Ok, now I see i need some google juice to boost my overall traffics. Thank you!~

Comment by Bob The SR22 Insurance Guy

Made Tuesday, 9 of February , 2010 at 2:08 am

Congratulations on your prolific work here. I must admit I have popped in a read a good number of your blogs but I have no idea how to post a response over there, so I’ll tell you now how good you are at describing the stuff your at – I must admit I find it insightful to read your blogging. Keep up the good work.

Comment by Nick Stamoulis

Made Tuesday, 9 of February , 2010 at 12:38 pm

Hi Bob,
Thanks for reading and your kind words!