Removing nofollow Is Now A Movement
Back in February I posted about the growing
redundancy of rel="nofollow"
and how I had removed it from comments on this blog. This means that
when you comment, search engines will recognise your link and give
you credit for it in their algorithms.
Recently this trend has been growing and growing and more and more
bloggers are installing the plugins to remove this useless bit of
code. I don't know who started this ball rolling, but there is a
growing list of people that are joining in. All the bloggers below
have removed nofollow from their
comments to give you a bonus for your comments and trackbacks:
- Gaya McCord of MomGadget
- Wendy Piersall of eMoms at Home
- David Airey of Creative Design
- Ben Yoskovitz of Instigator Blog
- Dawud Miracle at dmiracle.com
- Chris Cree of SuccessCREEations
- Randa Clay of Randa Clay Design
- Char of Essential Keystroke
- Chris Garrett of chrisg.com
- Andy Beard of AndyBeard.eu
- David Paul Robinson of davidpaulrobinson.com
- Lars-Christian of Lars-Christian.com
- Char also of Casual Keystrokes
- Michelle of Scribbit
- Ponn Sabra of Empower Women Now
- Jason of Webomatica
- Robert Hruzek of Middle Zone Musings
- Mario of mariosalexandrou.com
- Lisa Mills of Work at Home Revolution
- Aaron Potts of Today is That Day
- Heather of Home Ec 101
- Laura Spencer of Writing Thoughts
- Steve James of Babblz and Fresh Yields
- KWiz of Wisdom Walking
- Mark Robinson of markrobinson.ca
- Denis Edell of dennisedell.com
- Nyssa of nyssajbrown.net
- Rinsem of The Rink
- WT of Webmaster Tips
And of course, myself. If there is anyone that I've missed out, please let me know!
Show Your Intentions
Further to just removing nofollow you
can now show off that you are part of this thanks to
Randa Clay, who has created the
I Follow buttons,
one of which you can see at the top of this post.
So join in, throw off the shackles of
nofollow, give your commenters some
link-love and get involved.