Comment here, increase your page rank
- Posted by Beth on October 11th, 2007 filed in Blogs, General, Pseudogeek stuff
Tags: Google, page rank, SEO, nofollow, dofollow
I’ve just installed the DoFollow Wordpress plugin, which removes “rel=nofollow” from the URL in your name in the comments. (As far as I know, it doesn’t affect URLs in the actual comment text.)
What this means to you: If you leave a comment here, it helps your site’s Google page rank. This works for pingbacks and trackbacks, too. I’ve got a PR6, so this will help most bloggers who comment or pingback/trackback here. The higher the page rank you have, the better–your page/links show up higher in Google search results with a higher page rank. As of now, the nofollow is gone from all older comments/pingbacks/trackbacks too, so those who have commented a lot using their blog urls (like Vinnie, for example) will see the biggest bounce. Good page rank = more Google traffic!
As a comparison, I’ve got a PR 6. Little Green Footballs has a PR 5. That means you get more Google juice here by commenting, believe it or not (this is assuming, of course, that his comments do follow; if not, LGF’s comments give you no Google juice). Instapundit’s got a 7 (with no SEO–evil!), but of course, he doesn’t have comments.
Of course, the obligatory note: Spammers need not apply. None of the anti-spam plugins and hacks have been relaxed, so your crap still isn’t going to fly here. I am only doing this because spam never, ever gets posted at this blog–if it did, even on occasion, I wouldn’t use this. Also, nasty trolls and R0n P@ul cultists can forget about it. I’ll just delete the URL you provide, so don’t bother.
This can also be done for other blogging platforms: Blogger, Movable Type.
Thanks to Raven for reminding me to do this–I’ve been meaning to for at least a year, but never got around to it. She’s got more details about DoFollow/nuking nofollow, and why YOU should use it, too.
Raven says:
Why thank you for the link…and…my “policy” is YOU comment at my site, I FOLLOW back to your site and COMMENT.
Its the right thing to do.
:clap:
Mamacita says:
Wow, cool! Don’t mind if I do. . . .
Slobokan says:
It’s about time you got on the “do follow” bandwagon. :) That whole nofollow thing is for the birds.
Blue Star Chronicles says:
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Luke Howell says:
This is a very cool idea.