Do follow or no follow on wordpress site?
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I have read many different opinions on what links to make do follow on a wordpress website versus which ones to leave as no follow. (internal and external) There does not seem to be any consensus among the inputs to date. Any perspectives on this would be appreciated. thanks
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great thanks. this was my sense and as it is on my old site but given the significant change it is always worth having additional insight and experience
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As long as you trust the site, and think you're linking to a valuable page on the web, there's nothing wrong with leaving them as 'follow'.
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The blog is self hosted. On my old site I left the links as do follow but when linking to sites such as facebook etc is there any value in leaving them as do follow?
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Hi Brett -
Are you talking about a self-hosted Wordpress blog or a site hosted at Wordpress.com? Generally, I leave the entire site as regular 'follow' HTML links, except for the comments section.
Generally speaking, good content and community should encourage a robust discussion. If people are just coming along commenting on a blog because they hope to get a link back to their site out of it, their comments often can feel more forced, and generally are going to add less value.
Also, there are software applications employed by the blackhat community that can send massive amounts of spam comments in a very short period of time. Opening up comments as do follow makes you more targeted by such software programs.
Of course, there are software tools designed to fight comment spam, such as Akismet, which can make things much easier.
On my own blog, I've gone to using Facebook for comments. It saves users the trouble of having to login or create an account on my own site, and plus it does a pretty good job of dealing with the whole spam comments problem.
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