Removing nofollow Is Now A Movement

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1. 1April 14th, 2007 at 2:08 pm

   Andy Beard Says:

   The movement actually started over 2 years ago, although I think I actually had influence on the decision of about half those in the list, and many of those are “thought leaders” that have had a great influence on others.

   I have also now set up a community for like minded bloggers.

   
   

2. 2April 14th, 2007 at 11:24 pm

   Laura Says:

   Thanks for the link love! Actually, removing nofollow makes a lot of sense if it truly no longer serves its original function.

   Now it’s a movement. Wow, I feel like I ought to get a membership card or badge!! I can just imagine the looks I get as I pull at a DoFollow card along with my driver’s license…

   
   

3. 3April 14th, 2007 at 11:46 pm

   Chris Cree Says:

   The ball that Andy gave one of those early shoves to way back is really picking up momentum now!

   Down the hill with NoFollow! :)

   
   

4. 4April 15th, 2007 at 12:46 am

   Mark Robinson Says:

   I’m doing this too - please add me to the list!

   
   

5. 5April 15th, 2007 at 3:10 am

   Char Says:

   Phil - thanks for keeping this one moving down the hill!

   
   

6. 6April 15th, 2007 at 1:15 pm

   David Airey :: Creative Design :: Says:

   I must say, I like your design here. The comment section is unlike any I’ve seen (type size, typeface etc.). Good work.

   Also, thanks for removing NoFollow and for linking to my own blog in your list above.

   Good look for the future!

   David

   
   

7. 7April 15th, 2007 at 11:07 pm

   Phil Says:

   Wow, thanks for coming by and commenting everyone!

   Andy: You will have to forgive me, I haven’t been blogging a year yet, so I didn’t see the start of this. I have seen it gather great momentum recently though and I’m sure you are proud to have influenced so many people, especially other influential people, to continue this.

   Laura: Hey, if I’m going to give it out in my comments, I might as well give it out in my posts too! I see you already have your membership card in your right hand sidebar, though it will be another step before we should get them printed and laminated!

   Chris: Here’s to the ball never stopping and to blog platforms giving up (or at least automatically giving the choice) on nofollow soon!

   Mark: You’re on the list, keep up the good work!

   Char: It feels great to be a part of something that will hopefully make a difference!

   David: Thanks for your comments on my design! Coming from someone with a site as beautiful as yours, I really appreciate it. Removing nofollow is a no-brainer now, I just want to help out by telling others too. Linking out, as I said to Laura above, is easy. If I do in my comments, why not in my posts to people who deserve it, especially in light of this campaign.

   
   

8. 8April 16th, 2007 at 12:07 am

   Dennis Edell Says:

   I love it, feel free to add me to the list!

   
   

9. 9April 16th, 2007 at 12:08 am

   Nyssa Says:

   Done this myself after reading this. Thanks Phil. :)

   
   

10. 10April 16th, 2007 at 2:52 am

    Ponn Sabra Says:

    Hi Phil.

    Thanks for spreading the link-love!

    Andy started a Bumpzee community for all of us (details in the post below). I mention a great post from Dawud that describes the whole theory very easily. Please follow the links, because Andy adds very easy-to-understand explanations in my comments too, and I’m a non-techie computer-dummy. ;-)

    Here’s the post.

    I agree with David, your comments design is unique and very nice!

    To our success & empowerment,
    Ponn

    
    

11. 11April 16th, 2007 at 11:13 am

    Dawud Miracle Says:

    I give final credit to Andy, as well. I was considering removing nofollow, but a number of his posts and comments I found easily pushed me over the edge. Thanks Andy.

    
    

12. 12April 18th, 2007 at 12:18 am

    Phil Says:

    Dennis and Nyssa: Thanks for joining in, I’ve added you both to my list!

    Ponn: Funnily enough, the post of Dawud’s that you link to actually links back to my earlier post on the whole topic too! I’m considering the BumpZee community, but was put off by the whole affiliate marketer slide of BumpZee.

    Thanks for the comments about the design too!

    Dawud: having read more now, I see Andy has done a lot for the movement and I think it’s great! I’m almost surprised that it wasn’t reading Andy’s posts on this that convinced me. Still, whichever way it happened, the main thing is we all follow now!

    
    

13. 13April 18th, 2007 at 6:26 pm

    Rinsem Says:

    I’ve also joined the movement! Stop by the Rink for some I Follow love!

    
    

14. 14April 19th, 2007 at 12:19 am

    Ponn Sabra Says:

    Phil, Sorry if it seemed as if I was directing you to something you already know so well.

    While I am an affiliate marketer, joining BumpZee community looks interesting, but that wasn’t the reason of my joining. It was solely the opportunity to gather together with like-minded bloggers. The relationships I’m forming with the members so far have been extremely rewarding and truly charitable. I know that they all have a giving heart (or so I hope) as I can’t speak for anyone but myself :-)

    Hope you’ll reconsider. If you don’t you have a loyal reader/subscriber in me anyways.

    Peace.

    
    

15. 15April 21st, 2007 at 9:19 pm

    WT Says:

    I’ve always kept rel=nofollow off on my blog comments. I only use it when I link to a site that I don’t want to pass any PR to. If I think that someone has obviously posted a blog comment just for blatent marketing purposes I remove the link to their site but leave the comment — e.g., “Nice post, do come visit our site” (link text = “free ringtones” or something).

    
    

16. 16April 24th, 2007 at 12:21 am

    Phil Says:

    Rinsem and WT: I’ve added you to the list. Glad to hear there are more and more people joining in or already taking part!

    Ponn: You have got me reconsidering now! You will probably see me there soon! In the meantime, thanks for reading!

    
    

17. 17May 11th, 2007 at 6:44 pm

    Julia Temlyn Says:

    Hi there! I’ve been meaning to comment for a few weeks, but I was out of town. I joined the movement a few weeks ago, and have had numerous comments from others who are or plan to as well! I linked to you for some advice.

    Feel free to add me to your list! Thanks!

    ~Julia

    
    

18. 18October 8th, 2007 at 7:13 am

    Robin Says:

    I’m planing to remove nofollow too. I have seen so many bloggers said they removed nofollow. Google will afraid it…

    
    

19. 19October 20th, 2007 at 1:00 pm

    Mike Taylor Says:

    Great list…you can feel free to add me as well. Thanks.

    
    

20. 20December 15th, 2007 at 4:21 am

    Ronald Says:

    Awesome! I’ve been looking for this movement and I’m with you:

    http://blog.treasurelondon.com/

    Blogging software that automatically includes nofollow tags totally sucks and is draining to little blogs. Is there some way that this movement can start petitioning e.g. WordPress to remove default nofollow tags?

    
    

21. 21December 16th, 2007 at 3:20 am

    do follow Says:

    Hi, just dropping by to say hello and telling you that your site is featured in the DoFollow blogs search engine!

    Cheers!

    
    

22. 22January 10th, 2008 at 4:40 pm

    Onvyder Says:

    This is a nice movement, but I don’t like seeing pages that say they follow and source code says they don’t. I hope this one is not a case ;)

    
    

23. 23February 4th, 2008 at 5:10 am

    Andrew Taylor Says:

    Yes, really good initiative to get rid from disgusting spammers. It would enable genuine commenter to post a valid comment.

    
    

24. 24February 6th, 2008 at 6:26 pm

    William Says:

    Thanks for this information but I was finding how to remove nofollow from my comments.

    
    

25. 25February 20th, 2008 at 12:47 am

    SneakyWho_am_i Says:

    Gotta love guys like this William

    
    

26. 26February 29th, 2008 at 4:02 am

    Tee Says:

    Hello! I just read this and the linked post about the redundancy of nofollow… but if spammers can benefit, then I have to ask before I can join the ranks… What else can you do to prevent spam?

    I see you are using Wordpress, and I am as well. I’m using the JSSpamBlock and Aksimet plugins so far. I want to have max spam protection to prevent me getting overwhelmed as the site grows, but I’d like to not intrude on the user experience with CAPTCHAs and the like.

    So that being said - what do you and your readers use, and how effective do you feel these plugins are at saving you from manually scrubbing the comments?

    
    

27. 27April 6th, 2008 at 9:38 am

    i'm not an SEO defender, I'm a sydney electricians Says:

    We’ve just had an SEO expert come in and look at our plan for a directory for sydney companies. His view was that we would be stupid to put no-follow on our site as the first thing an SEO will do for those companies is check back-links from other websites. If we were to no-follow it, these companies would never know that we had provided them a service. That is death for a website like mine - not just a blog. Just another view on the same topic.

    
    

28. 28May 27th, 2008 at 7:29 pm

    Scott Partridge Says:

    Ive just joined the movement. Thanks for the list and for the link love!

    
    

29. 29May 31st, 2008 at 4:23 am

    Peintros Says:

    It would be nice to have statistics to know how many users followed that movement. I completely agree “no follow” is useless, and bloggers still have the option to moderate comments. Thank you for this.

    
    

30. 30June 11th, 2008 at 7:47 pm

    Jo Anne Trigo Says:

    I’m planing to remove nofollow too. I wasn’t to informed on how it worked but now i am convinced that is the right thing to do..

    
    

31. 31June 26th, 2008 at 1:41 pm

    شات بنات Says:

    Ive just joined the movement. Thanks for the list and for the link love!

    
    

32. 32June 29th, 2008 at 11:10 am

    Jacob Angel Says:

    This seems like an excellent idea … interesting to read the discussion about how long the do-follow movement has been around.

    I wonder if/when/what Google has to say about the question?

    
    

33. 33January 3rd, 2009 at 2:54 am

    Impacted Says:

    I too have recently removed the nofollow tags from my blog.

    I’ve also modified Randa Clay’s original badge design for a 88*32 size. You can get the html code for the smaller badge at:

    http://companiesactingbadly.bl.....ollow.html

    
    

34. 34January 11th, 2011 at 4:28 pm

    Joe McDermott Says:

    Thanks for posting. Found this site doing competitive research and I learned a lot. I’ll make these changes to my blog.