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Re: Hacking WordPress: Removing Nofollow from the Source

CandleFOREX — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 02:48:47 -0000

What about removing nofollow from pages? What file would we edit to remove nofollow from all pages and posts?
We tried a few plugins to do this with no success.....

Re: Hacking WordPress: Removing Nofollow from the Source

Cole @ FourJandals.com — Wed, 23 May 2012 10:06:23 -0000

Trying to take this out of a plugin. Proving harder than it looks!

Re: Hacking WordPress: Removing Nofollow from the Source

lushylush — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:25:19 -0000

Nice solution! Here is another one using a custom callback function for WordPress 2.7 and up. No change in core code and with the possible to separate comments, tracbacks and pingbacks using wp_list_comments():

http://www.mmncs.com/2011/0...

Re: Hacking WordPress: Removing Nofollow from the Source

Brown — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:25:03 -0000

I think now people say Good Bye to DoFollow attribute because it is creating many problems for the blog owners.

Re: Hacking WordPress: Removing Nofollow from the Source

Douglas Karr — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:53:35 -0000

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

Re: Hacking WordPress: Removing Nofollow from the Source

Janrafi — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:00:36 -0000

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.

Re: Hacking WordPress: Removing Nofollow from the Source

Work At Home Mom Tara — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 04:28:59 -0000

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!

Re: Hacking WordPress: Removing Nofollow from the Source

Blog Bloke — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:54:40 -0000

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). :-)

Re: Hacking WordPress: Removing Nofollow from the Source

Douglas Karr — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:51:57 -0000

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

Re: Hacking WordPress: Removing Nofollow from the Source

Blog Bloke — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:24:59 -0000

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

Re: Hacking WordPress: Removing Nofollow from the Source

Blog Bloke — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:23:44 -0000

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.

Re: Hacking WordPress: Removing Nofollow from the Source

Douglas Karr — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:00:00 -0000

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.

Re: Hacking WordPress: Removing Nofollow from the Source

Blog Bloke — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:41:43 -0000

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

http://mixedmarketarts.com/...

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

...BB

Re: Hacking WordPress: Removing Nofollow from the Source

Blog Bloke — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:07:05 -0000

Done! Thanks Doug

Re: Hacking WordPress: Removing Nofollow from the Source

Luis Narvaez — Tue, 20 May 2008 00:58:37 -0000

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.

Re: Hacking WordPress: Removing Nofollow from the Source

MikeV — Mon, 05 May 2008 00:15:25 -0000

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

Thanks-

Re: Hacking WordPress: Removing Nofollow from the Source

Jennifer Bogart — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:27:16 -0000

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.

Re: Hacking WordPress: Removing Nofollow from the Source

Douglas Karr — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:47:17 -0000

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

Re: Hacking WordPress: Removing Nofollow from the Source

Lutfi — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:40:13 -0000

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

Re: Hacking WordPress: Removing Nofollow from the Source

Flash design — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:39:01 -0000

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 ?

Re: Hacking WordPress: Removing Nofollow from the Source

Gunawan — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:11:11 -0000

Thank's you for your information.

Re: Hacking WordPress: Removing Nofollow from the Source

Giovanni — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:54:42 -0000

Making the change:

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

The old comments continues with nofollow ...

How can I to remove this?

Re: Hacking WordPress: Removing Nofollow from the Source

thatsme — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:49:26 -0000

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.

Re: Hacking WordPress: Removing Nofollow from the Source

Dorothy — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:01:25 -0000

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

Re: Hacking WordPress: Removing Nofollow from the Source

Michael — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:46:39 -0000

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