After lots of back and forth, I have decided to make comment links dofollow (removing nofollow); meaning that links users have in their comments will be followed by search engines. This adds value to the recipient’s site.
Please note:
- If dofollow becomes a hassle, I will take it off
- It’s easy for me to add nofollow to any comments, so please keep the conversation relevant. Manual link building sucks. But try hard to add value!
- This blog uses Lucia’s Linky Love and always has, so post 3 or more times!
Enjoy, don’t abuse.
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nice one, share the love
people would probably comment more, it’s a kind of reward
That’s great. Since you moderate the comments, there should be no worry there. Besides, not everyone posts a URL anyway.
Since the link beneath the post that leads to the actual comments page IS no-follow, I think it still doesnt add value for SEO to comment on your blog. The comments pages get no link juice at all, so there’s not anything to spread really.
No, that’s not the case. Google will be indexing each post, and the links in comments are now dofollow. It doesn’t matter that the “{4 comments}” link is nofollow.