WordPress 1.5 Plugin - Strip “nofollow” tag from comment URLs
March 7th, 2005 by Angsuman ChakrabortyIntroduction
WordPress 1.5 (a Weblog/CMS software) comes with “nofollow” enabled by default, with no option to disable it! This plugin provides an option to disable “nofollow” in the most efficient way possible without altering any WordPress code.
Background
Any comments URL’s posted by the viewers of a WordPress powered site are automatically tagged as “nofollow”.
This means that the search engines wouldn’t follow the URL’s listed and hence a commenter wouldn’t get the benefit of commenting on this site by way of increasing their (websites) search engine rank (like Google rank). This is supposed to act as disincentive to comment spammers. In reality this acts as a strong disincentive to comment on a site by legitimate viewers.
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September 2nd, 2005 at 4:22 am
Yes, and perhaps that’s a good thing. If your only incentive to comment is to get a link back to your site, then it seems probable you didn’t have much to say in the first place.
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Very useful plagin, imho. thanks for it.
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I absolutely agree with Comment #20
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January 25th, 2006 at 6:29 pm
This actually works! In 2.0 at that! Is it possible to edit this to insert target=”_blank”? My users hate when a link does not open in a new window.
Thanks!!!
January 26th, 2006 at 1:23 pm
Hi tried it but not working with wp2
any code modification suggestion plz ?
February 8th, 2006 at 5:37 am
Enabled it on your site
February 9th, 2006 at 12:27 am
Good catch. For me it is a tradeoff. This blog is in the proceess of overhauling. At one time it was consuming lots of CPU, so I indiscriminately disabled a bunch of plugins hoping to speed up. Then I switched to wp-cache 2. It has its own share of problems. Anyway I am designing a new theme for this blog where I intend to re-enable this plugin again. But you know how it goes… it keeps getting delayed due to other commitments. I wish I had 48 hour day
February 27th, 2006 at 1:21 am
I personally believe that anyone who goes out of their way to partake in the discussion on your site, or any other site, should indeed be able to link there. Especially if they return a link via a bookmark or url on their page.
Mark C.
February 27th, 2006 at 1:32 am
@Mark
I allow linkbacks with the exception of spammy / MFA / content-less sites. Unfortunately your site falls under content-less sites. Also your comment is irrelevant to the context.
Linkback is a privilege, not a right.
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Seems like a pretty fine feature since link building is so important..
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Exactly what I was looking for. I just installed it. I share you idea that a proactive blog management is much better than a generalized nofollow tag that punish the ones who help you create quality contents.
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Just what I was looking for. Thanks a bunch!
September 20th, 2006 at 1:09 pm
thanks man
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December 30th, 2006 at 8:49 am
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March 26th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Exactly what I was looking for. I just installed it. I share you idea that a proactive blog management is much better than a generalized nofollow tag that punish the ones who help you create quality contents!
April 2nd, 2007 at 2:16 am
Thanks to Angsuman for his Follow Wordpress plugin.
I use it in http://bc-city.com
May 12th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
this is too kool man..no follow rocks
June 23rd, 2007 at 1:29 pm
We’ve done the same!
July 18th, 2007 at 3:38 am
thanks for the plugin, a very usefull solution.
August 3rd, 2007 at 7:04 pm
Cheers, I have been thinking about this type of plugin for my site http://www.reallyreally.net/ and am seriously thinking about installing it. Thanks for the info
August 23rd, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Sweet I love that followurl
September 20th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
Where is this awesome plug-in? I’d like to download it but I can’t seem to find the download link?
September 21st, 2007 at 4:00 am
The download link is in page 2.
September 26th, 2007 at 9:23 am
I have a blog in Wordpress and this plugins works great
September 29th, 2007 at 6:00 am
So I imagine this works for newer versions of WP too? Might give it a whirl
October 28th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
I use this Plugin since this week. It works very good. Thank you!!
November 21st, 2007 at 5:30 am
I don’t seem to have that big of a problem with comment spam, but none the less thanks for the link.
November 21st, 2007 at 8:20 am
I installed this plugins on my blog and it works great! Well Done!
November 21st, 2007 at 11:00 am
Really nice plugin, I am in the process of finishing up my re-re-redesign of my site and really believe, as you do, that you allow a follow link. With that said, I had came across some sites with an “I follow” banner, but can’t seem to find a good one now, I found some others that are not all that great, wondering if you had a preference? And with that, what on your thoughts on having one in the first place? Should we have one?
Thanks.
November 29th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
a really great and useful tool, thanks for it. google is hunting spammers in original form and make suffer general commenting people
December 10th, 2007 at 11:53 am
thank you for this plugin:) i hate spammers!
January 31st, 2008 at 9:42 am
I have a blog in Wordpress and this plugins works great
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Sweet I love that followurl
February 16th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
I have a blog in Wordpress and this plugins works great
February 16th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Thank You
February 16th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Thank for plugins..
February 16th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
thanks
February 17th, 2008 at 4:32 am
nice ok
February 17th, 2008 at 4:32 am
wow thnks
February 17th, 2008 at 8:32 am
A really great and useful tool, thanks for it
February 17th, 2008 at 11:39 am
With that said, I had came across some sites with an “I follow” banner, but can’t seem to find a good one now, I found some others that are not all that great, wondering if you had a preference?
February 17th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Wonderful plugin. We hate spammers
February 17th, 2008 at 11:55 am
Thank you
February 17th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
I installed this plugins on my blog and it works great! Well Done!
February 18th, 2008 at 2:08 am
thank yo from on now
February 18th, 2008 at 3:09 am
So thanks for this plugin.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:03 am
thanks for this plugin
February 18th, 2008 at 9:29 am
thank you for this plugin:) i hate spammers!
February 18th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Just what I was looking for. Thanks a bunch!
February 19th, 2008 at 3:02 am
We’ve done the same!
February 21st, 2008 at 5:25 am
I used a similar plugin from seopedia.org. It’s got to be about time WP looked into integrating one of these plugins so you can just easily turn it on or off in the options.
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:11 am
I have a blog in Wordpress and this plugins works great
February 29th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Sharing is important in the internet. Using nofollow tag is a little bit selfishness i think. Thanks for sharint this plug-in
March 7th, 2008 at 6:25 am
Thx for this plugin
March 8th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
thank you for this plugin:)
March 13th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
I would agree not following links defeats the idea of a free Internet. Google hepped creat link spam by implementing their version of pagerank. Now because of link spam geared to pagerank, we are seeing no-follow tags. I really think now with search and the monetization of search and ads that we are seeing \”the tail wagging the dog\” here.
March 15th, 2008 at 2:40 am
thanks man
March 18th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Sweet I love that followurl
March 20th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Thank you….
March 24th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Good to see that this post is a good example of how spam gets attracted by PR. And your right having a nofollow link here!
March 26th, 2008 at 7:15 am
thank you
April 10th, 2008 at 3:11 am
The official claim is that links with the rel=nofollow attribute do not influence the search engine rankings of the target page. In addition to Google, Yahoo and MSN also support the rel=nofollow attribute.
i think nofollow is helping indexing…
April 20th, 2008 at 7:29 am
Thanks for very interesting article.I really enjoyed reading all of your posts. It’s interesting to read ideas, makes you think more.
April 20th, 2008 at 7:56 am
thankssWeve done the same!
April 20th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Sharing is important in the internet. Using nofollow tag is a little bit selfishness i think. Thanks for sharint this plug-in
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:34 am
thankssWe�ve done the same!
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:36 am
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April 23rd, 2008 at 8:37 am
Thx for this plugin man
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:38 am
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