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William Tully · 2 years ago

Love it! Thanks fuzzy-faced WordPress hacker!

(would be nice if they just coded it in as an option to turn on/off from the options panel)

Douglas Karr · 2 years ago

Within one of the WordPress forum, that was a common thread, William!

Dotty · 2 years ago

Thank you for this post. I have been going nuts trying to find where to remove the nofollow. You are a wonderful resource.

Dotty

Douglas Karr · 2 years ago

Thanks Dotty! I can read comments like that all day!

property investor · 2 years ago

Thanks Douglas. I installed the dofollow plugin, but then removed it again as it was not quite working correctly.
I did a google search and then found your blog. I'll try out the WP hack later. Hopefully it will get more people commenting on my blog.

Douglas Karr · 2 years ago

Hi P.I.,

I noticed the same thing and that's why I made this change! I do think it supports more folks commenting!

Regards,
Doug

Jeff Houdyschell · 2 years ago

Thanks Doug, I am going right from here to all my blogs and doing a little hacking.

May even do a short post on my site and refer them here...

Jeff,
WordPress Guides

Groovy Mom · 2 years ago

Gosh, this is such an easy fix, I keep reading it thinking I'm not getting something.

I installed LinkLove yesterday to remove the nofollows. This is a (simpler) no-frills approach. I'll have to keep it bookmarked, just in case. Thank you!!

Clarissa · 2 years ago

Thanks, I changed it too. Much appreciated.

Jerome Baum · 1 year ago

This is great.

I wish I could make the same change, but my blog is hosted on WordPress.com (see it here), so unfortunately I cannot edit anything (even editing just the CSS costs money, not to talk about editing themes).

Might go for another host, then I will definitely follow your lead on this!

Jerome

Ryan McCue · 1 year ago

I just thought I'd mention, the second part should be possible without commenting it out. You should be able to use the following: remove_filter('pre_comment_content','wp_rel_nofollow'):
Stick that in your template or in a plugin :)

Misha · 1 year ago

Wow!

That's a nice hack! Now I can do this without plugin :D Thanks, Douglas :)

Misha
Mapquest

Mari Adkins · 1 year ago

Thanks for this. I've been reading a lot of people who are doing this lately - but you're the first person who's told me how. ;) I followed along, modded my files, and am saving this for when I do upgrades so I have it. ;)

Kurt · 1 year ago

Found on line 154 in Wordpress 2.5 - Great Hack

Douglas Karr · 1 year ago

Thanks, Kurt! I've updated this post for WordPress 2.5.

Michael · 1 year ago

Me and a friend were just talking yesterday about getting rid of the nofollow and we thought that it was just something that we would have to live with.

Then today he sends me this great post!!

I will be making this change immediately. I only hope every blogger out there reads this post

thanks
michael

Dorothy · 1 year ago

I just upgraded my Wordpress Blog - noticed I needed to "rehack" my site. Thanks for having these instructions here. They helped me once again
Dotty

thatsme · 1 year ago

Half the fun of posting comments is so that all involved to get a link back to your own website. Thanks for letting others get this benefit.

Giovanni · 1 year ago

Making the change:

//add_filter('pre_comment_content', 'wp_rel_nofollow', 15);

The old comments continues with nofollow ...

How can I to remove this?

Gunawan · 1 year ago

Thank's you for your information.

Flash design · 1 year ago

I'm really confused on this area. I do think that the nofollow is not the right way to do it and it ruins it for a lot of other people. However many blogs I used to read got spammed so badly.
Hmmm strange my first comment didn't get posted. How come ?

Lutfi · 1 year ago

I am a do-follow member too, but i have a doubt. Is it have a bad effect for our PAGERANK?

Douglas Karr · 1 year ago

Hi Lufti,

If you do not moderate comments and allow link spam into your sites... YES... you can definitely damage your Pagerank. I would not recommend it without moderating comments carefully.

Cheers,
Doug

Jennifer Bogart · 1 year ago

Awesome! Thank you! I am a fairly new blogger, and was trying to find this in the code myself, but failed :). So I installed Dofollow, but then, after it was correctly activated etc. the no follow code was still showing up in the comment html when people tried to leave links in their comments! ARGH! Thank you SO much! I just edited my code and am off to uninstall Do Follow now. Found you through a Google search.

MikeV · 1 year ago

Did the mods but is there a way to remove nofollow from existing comments?

Thanks-

Luis Narvaez · 1 year ago

Thanks Douglas for this nice tip I think do follow is the way to go, and about Page Rank issues there are many PR6 do follow blogs around so personally I don't think well moderated comments spoil Page Rank.

Blog Bloke · 1 year ago

Done! Thanks Doug

Blog Bloke · 1 year ago

By the way Doug, what do you think about this article:

http://mixedmarketarts.com/2008/02/12/top-9-rea...

Do you believe removing "nofollow" leeches our pagerank? I would be interested in your opinion on that.

...BB

Douglas Karr · 1 year ago

I honestly don't believe a single point he's made, Bloke. Since I moderate my comments and verify the source, I do a good job of keeping the spammers out and having great conversations with my readers. They deserve credit for those conversations!

I think you're similar to me, we don't just write on our blog, we like to engage! That means we pay attention to the comments - not simply letting them run amuck.

Blog Bloke · 1 year ago

It's something that I've often pondered myself.

Will "dofollow" blog comments linking to irrelevant or poorly ranked blogs end up hurting our pagerank?

Hmm, I hope not. I'm really not sure myself and there doesn't seem to be a lot of discussion out there about it.

Only time will tell I suppose. Let me know if you find any more information will you please?

Thanks Doug.

Douglas Karr · 1 year ago

Hi Bloke,

I found this in-depth article over at SEOMoz:

Search engines cannot afford to remove all pages that are linked to by spam pages for precisely this reason - intelligent spammers point their links to themselves, their competition and their community. It would take significant effort to reveal which pages are spam and which are natural, which is exactly the point of these more modern, sophisticated artificial link schemes.

Doug

Blog Bloke · 1 year ago

So I guess those SEO types who tell us to only link to quality and relevant links are talking through their hats (white or black). :-)

Blog Bloke · 1 year ago

By the way, I would like to invite you to write a guest post @ Blog Bloke dot com. Let me know and I will send you an invite login.

Cheers,

...BB

Work At Home Mom Tara · 1 year ago

Thank you so much for this help. I have been trying to find the code that was hidden in! After reading this it took me 3 minutes!

Janrafi · 10 months ago

how come i still can't remove the rel="nofollow" in the comments area? i already put the // in the 2nd part where you advised.

Douglas Karr · 10 months ago

You'll also need to check your comments page in your template, Janrafi.