Do you remember my previous post regarding Step By Step Approach to Finding Do Follow Blogs?
In that post I received a comment from a guy who suggest me and all my readers here to turn off do follow blog. He has wrote a post the reason behind his suggestion.
If you are lazy to read and visit his blog let me summarize the post here.
He told that one of his blog is not indexed in Google Search because of this Do Follow attribute. He lost lots of visitors from Google and other source after removing rel=nofollow attribute.
Now, you guys tell me, is it good to remove no follow attribute?
For me, it doesn’t matter either you use do follow attribute or no folow attribute. Both are fine to use. The only problem is people don’t know how to handle them ( do follow and no follow) to avoid their blog from being punished by Google.
Here I share two tips to avoid your do follow from having bad SEO.
Don’t Link To Bad Websites or Keep Bad Websites in your blog.
If you link to bad websites, Google will assume yours is a bad website too! My blog receives a lot of spam comments everyday. As you know, many spammy bloggers use do follow blogs to get backlinks. If you link to may spammy sites trough do follow comment, you will experience negative effect of all that bad sites will cost you Page Rank! Google will punish the sites that link to spammy sites, FIRST RULE!
Watch out your blogroll link
Always Be Relevant or Don’t Be Irrelevant.
You must only keep the comments that are relevant to the post only by deleting all those spammy comments (always moderate them)! Fail to delete the spammy comments and keep them in comment section will hurt your blog. Google give more weight to the sites linking if the comment is relevant to the post.
Does Google Punish Do Follow Blogs? It depends
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Yeah, Een. I ever heard that there are a lot of bad effects when a blog using a do follow plugin. The blog would be hardly indexed by search engine, your page rank is hard to increase and so on. I already remove the plugin because it had affected some.
I already removed the plugin too. I have seen some negative effects using when I turn off No Follow attribute.
I think do dollow has it’s own advantages. Having do follow will increase comments, however it will also increase spam. You need to think carefully if your blog is suitable to be do follow.
I personally never heard that do follow has a bad effect.
For me, either do follow or no follow blog,if the sites getting famous, it will receive a lot of spammy comments.
I always thought that google will penalize dofollow blog but not anymore after read this article. So, we only need more careful if have dofollow blog.
Yes, If you turn on do follow blog you should take care much about the link that you blog linking to. You may don’t want your blog link to bad sites. Do follow blog allows Google bot/spider crawl the comment link.
I know many reputed SEO professionals/tech bloggers who have dofollow blogs and they advocate do follow.
Avoid bad links of course (enable comment moderation if possible) and scrutinize the link before publishing it.
This is must do for every blogger. We should take care our blog from spammers. Don’t make our blog linking to bad sites.
I believe it’s still a myth about dofollow and nofollow blogs. If you have more than 100 links on a page, Google will think that’s a link farm and it may violate Google Webmaster Guideline. And a bloggers who think commenting is a serious task don’t care whether a blog dofollow or not. They just read and leave comments if they find the content cool.
Thanks for your thought. Do follow and No Follow attribute are part of SEO. There are many SEO myths.
So if we make nofollow in the comment section , it still effect on our blog by spammy comment?
Yes, it still effect. That’s why we should dump the spammy comments
I don’t feel like that’s happening because of being DoFollow blog..There must be some other thing due to which he is not getting indexed..There are thousands of dofollow blogs and almost 90-95 % are getting indexed.
By the way, the image included in it is really nice. I like such kind of pics. Taken from Flickr?
Yes, I don’t fell like that too. There are something that he did which made his blog not getting indexed.
About the pic, yes I taken from flickr. I like the pic also.
I have not made any adjustments to my Follow status. I “reward” my readers and commentators quite adequately with link backs.
I not sure why blogging has to be such rocket science…LOL
It’s because, blogging is a part of technology which it turns and change so fast nowadays.
I’ve been following this issue for a while, and recently turned on dofollow on my blog. I certainly hope it doesn’t hurt me in the future. My main priority is to create and maintain a community atmosphere, and dofollow is part of that.
I like your suggestion to keep tabs on who is linking to you via this feature, and dumping the spammy comments. I never would have thought of the latter. Thanks for the advice!
Your welcome. Thanks for reading my blog. We must check each stuff that enter our blog so that we can keep our blog clean
good advice . i know this issue from people , i think this is a must read article for people that still confuse about do or nofollow blog
Even I’m also confusing about both attribute.
You confuse your self but don’t confuse to search engines;)
Nope. Search Engines confuse with me LOL
Agree on not to link to bad websites. Luckily, Google does not punish us when bad websites link to us.
We will be more lucky if the high PR bad sites linking to us.
But it is impossible
I definitely don’t agree that dofollow blogs can get deindexed from Google merely because of switching from nofollow. Comments can be a cause but that’s why there’s a moderation panel in WP admin. It’s just plain common sense. Why link to bad neighborhoods?
If dofollow blogs are bad in the eyes of Google and is harmful to some SEO “guru” thingamajig then I wouldn’t mind having a PR4. I value conversations more than pagerank and readers more than stats.
Sometimes blogger missed look at the spam comments. Most of spam comments is linking to bad sites.
I reserve a lots of spammy comments. How to stop them?
@happysus
You will never get to stop spammy comments.
@happysus
The better ieda is don’t show your comments form..hehe:) just kidding.
Hahaha..good idea! but comment form is to provide discussion among readers and blog owner.
My blog is do follow but I don’t think it should affect google rank.
I’ve installed Lucia’s Linky Love plugin, so the no follow attribute is removed only after a few approved comments and I definately moderate all the comments, thats very important to avoid bad links.