I have been meaning to do it for a while, but I finally got around to installing the DoFollow Plugin for Wordpress. I am sure I will start getting more SPAM filled comments, but I can definitely handle moderating them and weeding the bad ones out for the time being.
Blogs are supposed to be about user interaction, and link building is a huge portion of SEO, so why not spread the link love?
SpamKarma has always done a really awesome job at controlling comment spam for me over the years. I may have to get this dofollow plugin going. How much of a resource hog is it?
Comment by Jason — September 19, 2007 @ 7:59 pm
I don’t think it’s a resource hog. To be honest, if you have technical ability there isn’t really a plugin required. Just edit the wordpress template files to remove the nofollow from the anchor tags.
Or you can take the quick and easy route like I did and just install the plugin.
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Glad to see you installed it. I did the same a few months ago and I haven’t regretted it.
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