WordPress SEO Comments and rel=nofollow article updated March 2014. Google no longer honors the nofollow tag! Instead of protecting the PR/link benefit it used to conserve for non nofollow links, it now DELETES the PR/link benefit! Stupid move by Google as it again forces webmasters to look for alternatives to nofollow to protect PR/link benefit like using javascript when linking to sites we do not wish to promote! My SEO advice is do not use rel=”nofollow” on any website if you care about search engine optimization. To get around this WordPress SEO issue I created a SEO WordPress Theme that instead of using normal links to link to comment authors URLs it uses form button links (Google ignores them, no […]
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Akismet API
i would love to use Akismet but i still need to register to WP.com to get the Akismet API key
WordPress Comment SPAM
How can 92% of comments be spam? If this is the case, why do we even keep comments on our blogs? And i know the no follow is to fix things, but I believe it’s still used by google. Let’s try :-)
Moderator: This was picked up as SPAM, removed the link and let it through :))
SpamTask WordPress Plugin
You should add SpamTask to the list. I think it works best of all the anti-spam plugins.
How Does Google Use Nofollow?
So I’m looking at the dates on this post and the responses, being March 2011 is the “rel=nofollow” still legit? Meaning Google and the others don’t pay attention to it?
Yahoo site explorer and nofollow
i have still doubt about nofollow, i use to comment on many blogs when i like the post, and many of them are using nofollow for wordpress comments…
but when i explore my site in yahoo site explorer it shows all those inbound links,it may not give you page rank benefits,but still you have traffic benefits..
and now a days trust rank is more important than page rank.TrustRank is the degree to which Google trusts that your website will be valuable to visitors if presented as a search result…
Yahoo site explorer and nofollow
SEO Tip : Stop Using Nofollow
If I haven’t came to this page, I wouldn’t know that “nofollow” is useless now. Thanks a lot for the information.
WordPress SEO Nofollow Links SEO Ranking Value
There is nothing more important to a site ranking than backlinks, without links a site will go no where SEO wise.
Nofollow links pass no SEO benefit (they are SEO damaging to the page/site they are on), just trust me on this one I’ve tested it and at one point discovered an anomaly that the anchor text of a nofollow link was counted by Google on the page the link is on (not the case anymore, Google fixed it).
I had a working test of this (Search “SEOStenchbomb” in Google, but recently broke the public SEO test myself when I updated the Stallion SEO theme with code that automatically replaces nofollow links with javascript links :-) another private SEO test still shows the same results, so nofollow has no SEO ranking value and since it deletes link benefit (Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s webspam team confirmed this on his blog) is bad for the site the link is on.
That’s not to say nofollow links to a site have no value at all, there’s click through traffic, but it won’t increase search engine rankings and it damages the site the link is on.
PR per se does not dictate rankings, but the number and quality of backlinks which can be roughly (very roughly) measured by the PR of a page is very important. Remember Google says they use over 200 ranking factors, PR/link benefit is just one Google ranking factor.
Looking at the PR of a page or domain alone isn’t very helpful, are the links that generated the PR aged, a link doesn’t pass full benefit for about a year, is the domain in a ‘trusted’ state which appears to be based a lot on the quality and PR of aged backlinks and if there’s anything wrong with the site (Black Hat SEO techniques). Are the backlinks spread over many domains or a few, are those domains ‘trusted’ sources. It’s not that hard to get a page to PR4 which can be enough to generate decent SERPs, but doesn’t mean the link benefit is working because of where the link benefit came from and how aged the links are.
In comparison the onpage SEO is easy and straightforward, but without those offsite factors you might as well not bother.
David Law
WordPress SEO Nofollow Links SEO Ranking Value