*sigh* Welcome Back rel=nofollow

Back in February, I excitedly announced that I was getting rid of the rel=nofollow stuff on comment links.

April rolled around and I excitedly “joined” the I Follow movement with a spiffy badge.

Towards the end of May, I voiced some concerns about abuse.

A few weeks later in June, I hit the abuse topic some more.

July 1

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Small Adjustment to My "No nofollow" Policy

As mentioned several times, I’m a “do follow” blog. Long story short, I don’t feel that commenters’ links should be marked as “rel=nofollow.”

Until today I have been using the slick DoFollow plugin by Kimmo Suominen. That plugin allows a bit of a time delay before removing the nofollow attribute which is helpful in the

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More on the Potential For DoFollow Abuse

I’m still not changing my mind: Getting rid of “rel=nofollow” on comments still feels like the right thing to do. However, I’m noticing more and more discussions about it that are food for thought.

A couple weeks ago, I touched on this and mentioned the disturbing trend of “seo types” listing out dofollow (the

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The Meme Shuffle

Randa has an “I Follow” meme going on and called me out. But I just wrote about the nofollow thing last night, so…

Last week, Vox called me out on a literary meme. Since I haven’t actually done that yet (promise, I will eventually), I figure it only makes sense for me to transfer

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The "I Follow" Movement

Back in February, I wrote about removing the “nofollow” tags from folks who comment.  Why punish folks who took the time to leave a (valid) comment?

Today, the Randa Clay Design blog released some logos to share with folks who have turned off “nofollow” and wrote an announcement article.  You’ll see the logo flying over

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