To Fifht Comment Spam - No Follow tags for Wordpress Blog

Blogs are great! People love them! Google loves them! Spammers love them!

Yup... it's unfortunate, but spammers love blogs so much that they have found numerous ways to ruin it for us good mannered folks, who used to be able to get high quality backlinks by commenting on posts in blogs.

Now known as comment spam - it's a way that bloggers spread around their garbage and they do it by mass attacking our blogs with phony comments filled with text links.

It has driven many blog owners to turn off comments or at the least moderate them.

Plugins like Akismet for Wordpress help keep a lot of the spam out, but some of them still get through.

Not too long ago Google took a vocal position on comment spam and pretty much threw it's weight around and demanded that Wordpress and other blogging platforms adopt a new policy to get rid of comment spam and help enforce the web with Google's "nofollow" tag.

The tag basically tells Google NOT to follow the links or at the very least not to recognize them as high quality links. Who knows what else the search engines do when they see these nofollow links. That's a whole other discussion.

But now Mike Liebner have found a solution and it is so simple. It's a cool free Wordpress plugin called DoFollow 4.0 and you can get it here:

http://www.mikeliebner.com/linking/free-dofollow-plugin-wordpress/

It's so simple all you do is copy the plug-in, a .php file, and drop it in your WP blogs plugin folder - upload it - turn it on and BOOM - now all the links properly pass their juice.

In fact there are actually programs and lists out there that compile addresses of "do follow" blogs - only problem is - many of the lists are out of date - because all it takes is an upgrade to WP and many of them go back to "nofollow".