To Follow or NoFollow? Leave your Link.
I stumbled across Andy Beard’s Ultimate List of DOFOLLOW & NOFOLLOW PlugIns looking for some “follow” advice on my blogs.
I downloaded the WP Plugin: Nofollow from Home to add the “rel=nofollow” to the homepage posts of this very site along with some of my other blogs, so Google wouldn’t follow the affiliate links. You can be penalized for too many affiliate links on a site.
Then Wordpress automatically adds the “rel=nofollow” to post comments, so I downloaded the DoFollow WP Plugin from Semiologic to remove the tag on comments and trackbacks. That will encourage other webmasters to comment and link to specific website posts knowing it will help their PR. Go ahead and try it out. Leave a comment on this very post including your URL - can’t beat a free one-way link… unless, of course, you do want to link to this site!
P.S. Yes, I know it’s Friday, and I am wearing a free t-shirt. I’ll see if I can get one of my daughters to snap a pic…
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See Pat Blog wrote,
Good idea!
Link | June 30th, 2007 at 8:16 am
Marty Fahncke wrote,
Did I hear someone say free link? Sounds good to me!
http://martyfahncke.wordpress.com
Link | July 2nd, 2007 at 6:56 am
Andy Beard wrote,
What I do with affiliate links, most of them pass through my own tracking script, though you can also just create pages that do a meta redirect.
Then you can block the affiliate link directory with robots.txt so they are 100% guaranteed not to pass link love.
My problem is sometimes I am in a bit of a rush, and get a little lazy.
Link | July 2nd, 2007 at 9:09 am
Harley wrote,
The whole thing is just far too complicated for me. I just let Google get on with it and trust in the fact that they know what they’re doing. I guess that’s why I’d never make a good marketer. I do use robots.txt though when I notice a surge in spam bots running wild on my site.
Link | July 28th, 2007 at 2:49 am
Waltj wrote,
Free Links? Awesome. ps i didnt know about the having too many affiliate links. Thanks for the heads up. im new forgive me.
http://www.nicherus.com
Link | August 4th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Perraco wrote,
Free links awasome, I’m going to install the same plugins in my site
Link | October 21st, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Noni Kateus wrote,
This is so cool; the blogosphere is a new dimension to me, unknown territory, but its value seems to increase with time. As in the email to you, thanks again for this valuable site and your expert information.
Link | February 14th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Halo wrote,
Link | March 15th, 2008 at 7:40 pm