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81 blogs with the NOFOLLOW tag removed

Posted in Search Engine Optimization by Michael Haislip on the June 13th, 2007

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The NOFOLLOW attribute is a bit of code that gets attached to hyperlinks in blog comments. It is meant to prevent comment spam from influencing Google’s search results. Unfortunately, it doesn’t really work all that well.

Now, many sites are removing the NOFOLLOW attribute to encourage comments and to show a little link love. Why does this matter? Because links in the comments of these DOFOLLOW sites count like any other link in determining PageRank. That’s a good thing for bloggers.

If you would like to remove NOFOLLOW from your blog, Andy Beard maintains a list of various plugins that will help.

Here’s a small list of blogs with the NOFOLLOW attribute removed:

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