PR-Friendly Comments and Traffic
177 words | Last Updated: February 1, 2007 |
If you want more traffic, reward your commenters will PR-friendly comments. Usually, links in comments placed in Wordpress blogs have a "nofollow" tag, which means no pagerank juice is passed on to that link. And no PR juice translates to no additional Google search engine points.
Fortunately, there is a way to convert "nofollow" into "DoFollow."
Stumbled upon Andy Beard and found out about the DoFollow plugin for Wordpress, which removes the nofollow attribute from your comments.
This is a way of rewarding your blog's commenters who took the time to leave a comment, because the link that leads to their site will earn some Pagerank juice.
You might open yourself to comment abuse, though. Perhaps Andy Beard's Comment Policy will give you ideas on how to handle this. Please take note also that his comments area mentions that people who leave a comment will get a real backlink.
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"PR-Friendly Comments and Traffic"
First Posted: February 1, 2007 | Filed in: Web Traffic Wordpress
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Thanks for the mention. There are actually quite a few "dofollow" type plugins. That one is the most basic, but there are other that offer a short term "nofollow" and after a while it reverts to a followable links.
I think some also allow configuration, thus comments are nofollow, but a trackback is a real link, thus an automated link exchange.
Looks like a good plugin. I have installed it on my blog.