Disable the NoFollow Attribute on Comments
Published by BloggerMom on Oct 25, 2007 at 1:16 PMIn my zeal to show off the "U comment I follow" badge, I forgot to post the blog that tells you how to actually disable the "nofollow" tag.
All the blogger templates have the nofollow tag built in. The “nofollow” is basically a tag that can be added by a webmaster to certain hyperlinks. This will tell search engines that they shouldn't visit that particular link. Most blogging platforms today include the nofollow tag in all signature links. The "no follows" have noble intentions of stopping spam via comment or otherwise.
Comments are vital for exchanging ideas, getting opinions and generating traffic, since blogging is all about building a community. Turning off comments or nofollow does not really help...especially if you are a newbie and want to get more people to participate and help your blog grow. So we need to disable or remove the nofollow tag from our templates. Here's how:
- Login in to you blogger account and go to the Dashboard. Click Layout.
- Once in the layout, select the Template tab and then proceed to the Edit Html tab.
- Backup your existing template using then "Download Full Template" option.
- Check "Expand Widget" checkbox, within which lies the comment code.
- Scroll down or CTRL F for the code - "comments-block":
Here you can locate the rel='nofollow'...thats our culprit. Just delete the words highlighted in bold and save the template.
You can even let them know your comment policy if you have one..for example:
COMMENT POLICY
Comments on this blog are made DOFOLLOW for the Google Spiders.
Comments are moderated.
Spam will not be tolerated.
I had followed your instructin to delete the bold coded. Seems like nothing different. But I do joined the policy of You Comment I Follow
Thank you for this informative article. Good job!
This is amazing. you are doing a great job
Hope every blogger could follow your guidelines!
uh mm yes, the thing is not how to do it, but being willing to do it. many that already were dofollow change their minds and went back to nofollow.
I have read your blog this one is very interesting also helpful for blogger i hope every blogger follow this
you are really helping us, thanks
To disable the plugin completely, you will need to go to the System Overview > Plugins page. Clicking 'Disable' for the NoFollow plugin listing. You'll be asked if you wish to "Disable this plugin?" and here, you should click OK.