Yesfollow or nofollow? This is the question.

Did you know that all links in blog comments have by default the nofollow attribute? This means that if you leave a comment on a blog and put your link in the signature, that link does not count for search engines ratings. It was set like this to prevent comment spam on blogs. But now, at least for Wordpress blogs, this nofollow attribute becomes useless, thanks to the great Akismet plugin. Akismet saved this blog in 7 months time of almost 2000 spam comments. So why do we still need the nofollow?
Actually we don’t, and today, via CosminPTR, a very young but interesting blog, centered on working from home, I found out how to change this. The yesfollow project was created

to give bloggers, commenters and forum participants the credit they deserve. The blogosphere provides some of the most useful content on the web, but due to the pervasive use of the “nofollow” attribute, most blogosphere contributors don’t get search engine credit for their comments and discussions. The yesfollow Project aims to change that.

How to disable nofollow

The yesfollow project teaches us how to do it:

Disable “rel=nofollow” on your blog. You can install a plugin which removes the “nofollow” tag from your blog, or disable the plugin which adds it. For Wordpress 1.5+, install the DoFollow plugin. For Movable Type, disable the nofollow plugin.

I just activated the DoFollow plugin on this blog, so from now on, when you leave a comment on any of AllTipsAndTricks posts you’ll get credit from the search engines for that link. So, come on my friends, DoFollow me!