WordPress Nofollow Tag Is Prohibitive

Writing by Brick Marketing Staff on Friday, 7 of December , 2007 at 9:25 am

(Source) The next topic the panel discussed was the SEO-friendliness of blogging platforms such as Wordpress. The general consensus was that these services are relatively good for SEO, but they could still be better. For example, nofollowing tags links could make these blogs so much more SEO-friendly, as the majority of bloggers won’t know to do this themselves.

This is absolutely true. The nofollow tag is a determent to good comments on your WordPress blog. Until WordPress makers take the nofollow tag out of WordPress, I recommend you making that change yourself. The reason is because the nofollow tag is telling search engines not to follow the links. The commentators on your blog lose any SEO value that they would normally get with blog comments. But if you install a dofollow plugin or disable the nofollow feature then you are telling your commentators that you don’t value their comments much. This is one WordPress change I would duly welcome.

                      Category: Blog Plugins, Blog SEO                      

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